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Author: Sean Crist (Swarthmore College)
Email: kurisuto at panix dot com
Date: 2005-09-25 11:40:34
Subject: Re: Old Saxon
> Just to like people know, I'm doing an OCR and proofing of the
> Old Saxon Gammer Dictionary. I might even translate the German
> definitions. What formating standards you would like to me use for
> the HTML (paragraph tags and such)?
Victar,
I checked my back emails, the European Gutenberg site, and Google. As far as I know, nobody else is working on Gallée's grammar. Thank you for working on it!
As for formatting standards: I wouldn't worry too much about the specifics. The single most important thing, which I say again and again, is never to collapse the contrast between any characters. For example, it would be a bad mistake to encode the þ character as th, since there would be no way for a program to tell which cases of th should really be th, and which should be converted to þ.
Beyond that, I think the second most important thing is to be consistent with whatever you do, so that someone else can easily convert your format to whatever it is they want to work with.
If you click the "About" tab above, I give a bunch of information about digitizing texts.
Good luck! Feel free to post questions or ask for suggestions. Thanks again for doing this!
--Sean