cbearden
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3 years ago I take it we are limited by the TEI P5 schema. Are we talking about marking up the text just as it is, or also about adding a constructed headword for cases like "ἐπ-αιτέω"?
Of the available dictionary-related children of entry, I think form is the best fit. form does have @type, and among the suggested values for @type in the P5 docs are
- simple: single free lexical item
- lemma: the headword itself
- variant: a variant form
- compound: word formed from simple lexical items
- derivative: word derived from headword
- inflected: word in other than usual dictionary form
- phrase: multiple-word lexical item
form may also contain form, and it may also contain character data directly, so one possibility is to enclose the array of form-related data in a parent form and then have specific form children with types to indicate what they represent. I don't know if I like that idea, but what do you think?
The Big Liddell at the Perseus Project is marked up with entryFree rather than entry, so I don't know if it can give us much precendent in this question. The Middle Liddell uses entry, however, and here is their version of "ἐπαιτέω":
<entry key="e)paite/w" type="cv" id="n11752">
<form opt="n">
<orth extent="full" lang="greek" opt="n">ἐπαιτέω</orth>
</form>
<note anchored="yes" type="infl" place="unspecified">fut. <foreign lang="greek">ήσω</foreign></note>
<sense level="0" n="0" id="n11752.0" opt="n">
<trans opt="n"><tr opt="n">to ask besides</tr></trans>,
<usg opt="n">Il.</usg>,
<usg opt="n">Soph.</usg>:—so in Mid.,
<usg opt="n">id=Soph.</usg>
</sense>
</entry>I haven't had a chance yet to go through all the examples for form in the P5 docs. Perhaps some good possibilities there.
jonathanrobie
destatez
pdurusau
In the current structure, there's no simple, direct representation of the headword. The
<orth>element doesn't quite do it because it often contains additional information or hyphens. The@nattribute contains the headword plus a Strong's number, so you have to break this apart.Can we improve this?