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Minimal example

Part of file for epitome 142

id:142
title:Observationes de arte grammatica
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t1:Georgius ſymler Vuimpinenſis natione theuthonic <lb/> grâmatices obseruationes côpilauit
la:Georgius Symler Vuimpinensis natione teutonica grammatices obseruationes compilauit
es:Georg Symler, natural de Wimpfen, de la nación teutona, compiló unas 'Observaciones de gramática',
%%
t1:quib cuncta <lb/> fere grâmaticalia fundamenta potius agregata quâ <lb/> digesta uidentur
la:quibus cuncta fere grammaticalia fundamenta potius aggregata quam digesta uidentur,
es:en las que prácticamente todos los fundamentos gramaticales parecen entremezclados, antes que estructurados,
%%
t1:Vnde pro uectiorib potius quam <lb/> nouis tyrunculis illud lectitand censuerit
la:unde pro uectioribus potius quam nouis tirunculis illud lectitandum censuerit
es:de lo que habría aconsejado, más en favor de los más avanzados que de los principiantes jóvenes, leerlo repetidas veces,
%%

Lagarto abstract data type (ADT)

Informal skeleton overview:

- book                          [root elemet]
     - section                  [section 1 - ordered list - section = epitome]
          - head                [header - metadata - full list below]
               - id             [section identifier = epitome number]
               - title          [section title = epitome title]
          - body                [sets of aligned segments]
               - align          [multilingual aligned segments - align 1 - number implicit by the order]
                    - t0        [segment - clean or consolidated texts of t1 and t2]
                    - t1        [segment - transliteration from source 1 - there might be only one source]
                    - t2        [segment - transliteration from source 2 - up to N]
                    - es        [segment - Spanish translation]
                    - note-t0   [note - for segment 0]
                    - note-t1   [note - for segment 1]
                    - note-t2   [note - for segment 2 - up to N]
                    - note-es   [note-  for segment es]
               - align          [multilingual aligned segments - align 2 - up to N]
     - section                  [section N]

XML skeleton examples: book - section ¶

Lagarto Fomat

It is an implementation of the ADT where each section is in a separated section file, filenames as per the id. In the case of El Libro, section correspond to epitome; for example, the filename for epitome 142 is 142.txt; there are 1877 epitomes.

Section file

It is a plain text record-jar format file: a serie of records separated by %% at the beginning of the line, where each line is a key-value pair. The first record is the head and the rest the body where each record is a align, aligned multilingual parallel segments (§10) and the corresponding notes; a full example.

The rationale is lowering IT technical barriers: transcribers should focus on transcription and do not worry about IT aspects. All IT aspects are taken care off. A plain text editor is sufficient and there is no requirement to install additional specific programs. When saving the file select character encoding UTF-8 without BOM; often this is done by default, though some editors might not offer these options.

head

The first record in the file. It contains the header elements. Unused elements might be left blank or removed. Other elements might be added as needed. Note:

• elements might have several contents separated by "|"; might ordered or unordered
• content of related elements must be synchronised such as print and uriprint
• LC: two characters language code

body

The rest of the records are align, aligned multilingual parallel segments that should be as small as possible. Two characters keys are reserved for segments containing transcribes and languages data. t1 is "translated" into the clean version of the same language; as most of texts are in Medieval Latin with abbreviations, they are transformed into Classical Latin, la.