Hacking at the Voynich manuscript - Side notes
063 Merging the EVMT files

Last edited on 2004-09-10 22:59:19 by stolfi

  On September 10, 2004 7:10 Gabriel Landini sent me a copy of several
  files that he and Rene Zandbergen prepared as a result of the EVMT
  transcription effort. I had offered help with merging/transcribing
  them.
  
LINK SETUP

  ln -s /home/staff/stolfi/voynich/work
  ln -s /home/staff/stolfi/voynich/docs
  
  ln -s docs/GabrielLandini/evmt-files 
  
  mkdir merged

TRASCRIBER CODE ASSIGNMENT

  Transcriber codes A-Z are already assigned except for E,M,S.
  While working on the interlinear I will need more codes, so
  let's use lowercase letters.  This will require fixing many
  scripts...
  
  Text to be added to the transcriber code list (file f0.I
  of the interlinear):

    # These lower-case codes were reserved for the EVMT project:
    #
    #   a: EVMT official transcription
    #   b: Second choice from [|] in EVMT 
    #   c: Third choice from [|] in EVMT
    #   g: Readings by Gabriel Landini for the EVMT project
    #   r: Readings by Rene Zandbergen for the EVMT project

PLANNING

  Rough plan, to be thought over:
  
    In alpha03.txt:
    
      * Map EVMT locators to Stolfi locators.
    
      * Unfold [|] into separate readings, adding version codes.
      
      * Remove page-specific comments to separate files.
      
      * Mark pre-comments and post-comments somehow.

      * Attach sequence numbers to each line (especially to comments)
        according to desired order of units and lines.
        
      * Sort file according to new order.
      
    In the interlinear:
    
      * Convert my ad-hoc weirdo codes to new codes.
      
      * Remove page-specific comments to separate files.
      
      * Attach sequence numbers to each line
        according to desired order of units and lines. 
    
    Both:
    
      * Merge text from alpha03 and interlinear using the line sequence 
        numbers.
        
      * Merge manually the page-specific comments.
        
      * Uniformize conventions for inline comments, "-", etc.
      
      * Align mechanically with interlinear.
      
      * Inspect alignment and fix manually.
      
      * Compute consensus and majority versions.
      
    Verification:

      * Extract the EVMT version from the new interlinear.
      
      * Convert this file to the order and format of the 
        original alpha03.txt
        
      * Diff with original alpha03.txt, show to Rene and Gabriel. 

ASSIGNING SEQ NUMBERS

  Sequence numbers can be PPP.LLLL.CCC where PPP is the pnum, LLL is
  the contents line number within the page, and CCC is a sequence
  number for comments (001-499 for pre-comments, 500 for the contents
  line, 501-999 for post-comments.)