# Last edited on 2026-01-02 17:41:37 by stolfi

HISTORY OF THE SPS TRANSCRIPTION  

  To make my SPS transcription ("starps-U.evt"), I started creating
  "starps-H.eva" with the SPS part of the VMS, with only the lines from
  the Takeshi Takahashi transcription (";H>") from page f103r to page
  f116r line 30.
  
  Created a similar file "starps-Z.eva" with Rene Zandbergen's
  transcription (";Z>"). Checked and revised it thoroughly by reference
  to the Beinecke 2014 online scans as of 2025-06.  (Thus it is no longer 
  "Rene's"!)

  The format of these transcription files started somewhat similar to that of
  the EVMT interlinear. The numbering skipped the "titles".
  
  It was then converted to the new IVTFF format, mostly.  IN particular:
    
  For this conversion, the following line numbers had to be changed:
  
    f103v: 28a,29-36,36a,37-44  to 29-46.
    f108v: 24a,25-51            to 25-52.
    f112v: 44a,45-47            to 45-48.
    f115r: 36a,37-44            to 37-45.
  
  Also, the existing transcriptions of the SPS have four "titles",
  short lines with anomalous justification:

    <f105r.T1.9a>    =sairy.ore.daiindy.ytam=
    <f105r.T2.36>    =otoiis.chedaiin.otair.otaly=
    <f108v.T1.52>    =olchar.olchedy.lshy.otedy=
    <f114r.T1.34>    =ytain.olkaiin.ykar.chdar.alkam=
    
  The "title" <f105r.T1.9a> was assumed to be part of the following line 
  <f105r.P1.10> that the Scribe skipped at first and then added above 
  that line.  In the conversion, it was appended to line <f105r.11>.
  Line <f105r.10> was set to empty (actually, with the data field just "=").
  
  The other three "titles" were kept as such.  They must be 
  excluded by special tests when analyzing paragraphs.
  
INITIAL STARLET NUMBERS

  Initial stab at inserting star numbers "<!S{nn}>" and "<!NoS> in parag
  head lines:
  
    ./replace_star_ids.sh < starps-Z.eva > .temp-Z.eva

  Edited the file "starps-Z.eva" checking and reassigning all parag breaks.
  
UPDATING THE LOCATORS

  A major step in converting the various files to the IVTFF format was
  replacing the old-style EVMT 1.6e6 locators
  <{PAGE}.{UNIT}.{OSEQ};{TRANS}> by the new-style IVTFF locators
  <{PAGE}.{NSEQ};{TRANS}>
  
    now=`yyyy-mm-dd-hhmmss`
    mkdir -p SAVE/${now}
    for ifile in starps-{U,H,Z} ; do 
      chmod a-w ${ifile}.eva
      mv -vi ${ifile}.eva SAVE/${now}/   
    done
    
  The "-Z" version had already been upgraded, so:
 
    cp -av SAVE/${now}/starps-Z.eva ./
    
  As for the other two:
  
    ln -s ../074/map_locators.sh
    ln -s ../074/loci-evmt16e6-ivtff.tbl
    for ifile in starps-{U,H} ; do 
      cat SAVE/${now}/${ifile}.eva | map_locators.sh > ${ifile}.eva
    done
    
COMPARING VERSIONS

  Wrote a python3 program "compare_ivtff_files.py" to compare two files,
  line by line, using an optimal alignment algorithm:
  
    make -f compare_ivtff_files.make

    tag0="Z"
    for tag1 in U H ; do 
      file0="starps-Z.eva"
      file1="starps-${tag1}.eva"
      ofile=".cmp-${tag0}${tag1}.edf"
      ./compare_ivtff_files.py ${file0} ${file1} > ${ofile}
    done
    
  First run:

    read 2414 lines from file 0 = starps-Z.eva
    read 1313 lines from file 1 = starps-U.eva
    there were 587 loci from file0 missing in file1

    read 2414 lines from file 0 = starps-Z.eva
    read 1655 lines from file 1 = starps-H.eva
    there were 1 loci from file0 missing in file1
    
  Edited the files starps-Z.eva and starps-U.eva until the 
  last one became a subset of the former (apart from comments).

  Final run:

    # read  2421 lines ( 1064 data,  23 pages) from file 0 = starps-Z.eva
    # read   921 lines (  476 data,  23 pages) from file 1 = starps-U.eva
    #   588 loci from file0 missing in file1
    #   476 perfectly matching line pairs
    #     0 imperfectly matching line pairs
    
  Saving the current files:
  
    now="`yyyy-mm-dd-hhmmss`"; echo "now = ${now}"
    mkdir -p SAVE/${now}
    mv -vi starps-U.eva SAVE/${now}  
    cp -av starps-Z.eva SAVE/${now}/starps-Z-actually-U.eva
    chmod a-w SAVE/${now}/*.eva
    
      now = 2025-07-15-200047
      renamed 'starps-U.eva' -> 'SAVE/2025-07-15-200047/starps-U.eva'
      'starps-Z.eva' -> 'SAVE/2025-07-15-200047/starps-Z-actually-U.eva'

  Renaming "starps-Z.eva" as "starps-U.evt" to reflect the true culprit
  and uniformize with note 074. Renaming "starps-H.eva" to
  "starps-H.evt" for the same reason:
  
    mv -vi starps-Z.eva starps-U.evt 
    mv -vi starps-H.eva starps-H.evt
    chmod u+w starps-{U,H}.evt 

  Replacing ";Z" by ";U" with emacs.
  
MOVING THE FILE

  Moving starps-U.evt to note 074 since further editing will take place there:
  
    mv -vi starps-U.evt ../074/star25e1.evt
    ln -s ../074/star25e1.evt starps-U.evt
    
RESTORING PAGE HEADER LINES

  The page header lines were restored in "starps-U.evt".  "

PARAGRAPH STATISTICS

    compute_H_U_parag_stats.sh