Hacking at the Voynich manuscript - Side notes
048 Mapping Stolfi locators to the original Landini locators

Last edited on 1998-12-27 07:03:47 by stolfi

MAPPING STOLFI'S LOCATORS TO ORIGINAL LANDINI'S

  In the passage from Landini's interlinear to Stolfi's EVA
  version, the locators were changed almost beyond recognition,
  e.g. by the inclusion of unit tags, renaming of units, 
  line rearrangements, etc..
  
  One drawback of his change is that it makes it very difficult
  to map the many line-breaking bugs that were found in the FSG/SSG
  transcriptions back to Landini's interlinear. 
  
  Thus I decided to create a table that maps Landini's location codes
  to Stolfi's, and use it to map the FSG/SSG bug-fix log (unit f0.W)
  to Landini locations and FSG encoding.
  
  To build the table, I used the same trick that I used for merging
  Takeshi's file. The first step was to create copies of both files
  with the text truncated to 10-20 chars and pages of uniform size.
  (During this step I had to fix some locator bugs in Landini's file.)

    cat ../000/intrln16-eva.evt \
      | sed \
          -e 's/f88R.3/f88r.3/g' \
          -e 's/r88r.10/f88r.10/g' \
          -e 's/<68v3/<f68v3/g' \
          -e 's/{[^{}]*}//g' \
          -e 's/<F108V/<f108v/g' \
          -e 's/<f101r2/<f101r1/g' \
          -e '/<f101v1>/d' \
      | best-pick \
      | sync-clip-evt -v pageSize=170 \
      > lan.clp
  
    dicio-wc sto.clp lan.clp

    grep '##' sto.clp > sto.pages
    grep '##' lan.clp > lan.pages
    diff sto.pages lan.pages

  Then I pasted the two files side-by-side:
  
    /n/gnu/bin/paste -d' ' lan.clp sto.clp \
      | sed -e 's/^ *$//' \
      | cat -s \
      > lan-sto.clp
    
  Finally I used emacs rectangle edit to adjust the matching.
  Eventually I removed the truncated texts, and saved the location
  pairs as the file lan-sto-locs.tbl.
  
  With some ad-hoc unix hacking and emacs touch-ups, I converted f0.W
  to use Landini's location codes.
  
  To complete the task, I need to convert the quoted text
  in f0.W back to FSG notation.