Column numbering

[zabt]

Thr MS has numbering for columns starting in the Introduction and continuing in the Homilies, though only columns on full pages. I don't know if we know who put them there, but Holt & White includes the numbering so they're probably good to have.

Should they be marked with @n or @xml:id in or with some different tag altogether?

[mmwwah]

The column numbers were added by Junius. H&W do indeed use them as their prime means of navigation, so although we're using folia and line numbers, primarily, column numbers (not just col. 1 & col. 2) could be useful for anyone trying to triangulate with H&W.

What do y'all think? Should we bother?

[scottkleinman]

The standard method of indicating column breaks is <cb n="1"/>, <cb n="2"/>. But this is for internal use; it doesn't indicate what is on the page. I don't think your question was aimed at this issue, but it does raise another question about how columns should be labelled for "partial" pages such as the strips of parchment sewn in. It might be a good idea to give some thought to that issue.

But, in direct response to your questions, you want to know how to encode the column numbers (presumably) added by Holt & White. The element <fw> (forme work) is used for that. See http://scottkleinman.net/wp-content/uploads/guidelines-4.0/The_text_Section/body/Forme_Work,_Notes,_and_References/fw. You have several challenges in applying the guidelines here:

1. You are assuming that the hand is Holt and/or White. Can you distinguish between them? Are your certain that it is one of them? You need to put some kind of id in for the hand. You could make up an @xml:id and define it in the teiHeader as "unknown, possibly Holt and/or White".
2. I have been using @type="guideLetters" as a catch all for forme work that doesn't fit any of the other @type values listed. But perhaps we need to add @type="col" (column number) to the list. I'll open that up as a separate issue for discussion. Do whatever you want for this, and we can fix it through search and replace later.
3. Depending on where the column numbers are on the page, the values for @place may also be inadequate. If you find that to be the case, we may also need to expand the list of values for that attribute. If you think so, open a separate issue for that.

Hope that helps.

[scottkleinman]

Well, if the column numbers were written by Junius, that makes the @hand
issue a lot easier. Since the column numbers are there on the page, they
should definitely be encoded as forme work. I'm pretty sure that you don't
need to give the these elements individual @xml:ids. If you were reading
Holt & White, saw a column number, and wanted to find the equivalent in the
AEME edition, you could presumably just search for an <fw> with that
value. The platform might not be able to handle it, but you could do it in
oXygen or a text editor with regular expressions.

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On 22 February 2016 at 09:45, mmwwah notifications@github.com wrote:

The column numbers were added by Junius. H&W do indeed use them as their
prime means of navigation, so although we're using folia and line numbers,
primarily, column numbers (not just col. 1 & col. 2) could be useful for
anyone trying to triangulate with H&W.

What do y'all think? Should we bother?

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