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Displaying notes of `@type="foontote"` #341

Open wlpotter opened 3 months ago

wlpotter commented 3 months ago

When there is a footnote in Wright, we have encoded these as a tei:note element with @type="footnote". Since these notes can appear even in the middle of other text contents, we'd like to see if the App can handle them as follows:

Example from https://bl.syriac.uk/ms/739#msPart2 item 1, in the Syriac title

<rubric xml:lang="syr">ܟܬܒܐ: ܕܬܫܒ̈ܚܬܐ: ; ܕܕܘܝܕ: ܕܡܦܪ̈ܫܐ<note type="footnote" xml:lang="en">The word <foreign xml:lang="syr">ܕܡܦܪ̈ܫܐ</foreign> 
seems here really to mean “of the interpreters” or “translators”. 
See <bibl>Add. 14,436<ptr target="https://bl.syriac.uk/ms/94"/>, <citedRange unit="fol" from="1b">fol. 1 b</citedRange> and <citedRange unit="fol" from="77b">77 b</citedRange></bibl>, 
as well as <bibl>Add. 17,109<ptr target="https://bl.syriac.uk/ms/738"/></bibl>. 
The strange thing is, that such titles should be prefixed to the ordinary Peshitta version, and that  too in a manuscript dated 
<date calendar="Gregorian" when="0600">A.D. 600</date>. See the similar heading in the 
<bibl type="MS">Bodleian manuscript,Hunt. 109</bibl>, <bibl>Dr. Payne Smith’s Catalogue, no. 7, col. 41</bibl>.</note>
</rubric>

At the location of the note[@type="footnote"] could we replace the element with an asterisk ("*") character?

Title: ܟܬܒܐ: ܕܬܫܒ̈ܚܬܐ: ; ܕܕܘܝܕ: ܕܡܦܪ̈ܫܐ*

Would it be possible to then have the footnote notes display in the list of other msItem/note elements, preceded by an asterisk ("*") character?

So the list of notes for this example item would be similar to:

Notes:


We can discuss this on Tuesday if needed.

wlpotter commented 3 months ago

We do have some cases of footnotes in other notes: note/note[@type="footnote"]. We might also want to discuss if this will create confusion if we display as noted above?

wsalesky commented 2 months ago

How does the current display look to you?

wlpotter commented 2 months ago

I think this looks good -- I'm going to leave it open to see what @davidamichelson thinks next week

wsalesky commented 4 weeks ago

@wlpotter @davidamichelson Any updates? Can this be closed?

davidamichelson commented 2 weeks ago

Notes for future development, we will hard code numbers on all footnotes, then display as separate section for each MS item below the notes section in a new section called footnotes.

wlpotter commented 1 week ago

Adding another example to test with footnotes at multiple layers of the msItem tree:

The record https://bl.syriac.uk/ms/257 has examples of footnotes at various levels in the msItem tree. Item 1 (xml:id a1); Item 5 (xml:id b4); Item 6 (xml:id b5); and Item 9 (xml:id c2) all have footnotes, and we would ideally have each item have its own footnotes section