Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of CharacterIssues


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Sep 8, 2008, 5:37:53 PM (16 years ago)
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hyman
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     1{{{
     2#!html
     3<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
     4<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     5                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
     6<html xml:lang="en">
     7  <head>
     8    <title>ECHO data entry specifications</title>
     9  </head>
     10  <body>
     11    <h2>Characters to be typed directly</h2>
     12
     13    <p>ASCII characters should be used with their normal values,
     14    except as indicated below. Note that <i>tilde</i> (<b>by
     15    itself</b>) should be entered directly as <tt>~</tt>.</p>
     16
     17    <p>The following characters with diacritics are to be typed
     18    directly:</p>
     19
     20    <h3>Characters with acute accent</h3>
     21
     22    <blockquote>
     23      &aacute;&eacute;&iacute;&oacute;&uacute;
     24      &Aacute;&Eacute;&Iacute;&Oacute;&Uacute;
     25    </blockquote>
     26   
     27    <h3>Characters with grave accent</h3>
     28
     29    <blockquote>
     30      &agrave;&egrave;&igrave;&ograve;&ugrave;
     31      &Agrave;&Egrave;&Igrave;&Ograve;&Ugrave;
     32    </blockquote>
     33
     34    <h3>Characters with circumflex accent</h3>
     35
     36    <blockquote>
     37      &acirc;&ecirc;&icirc;&ocirc;&ucirc;
     38      &Acirc;&Ecirc;&Icirc;&Ocirc;&Ucirc;
     39    </blockquote>
     40
     41    <h3>Characters with umlaut/diaeresis</h3>
     42
     43    <blockquote>
     44      &auml;&euml;&iuml;&ouml;&uuml;&yuml;
     45      &Auml;&Euml;&Iuml;&Ouml;&Uuml;&Yuml;
     46    </blockquote>
     47
     48    <h3>Characters with tilde</h3>
     49
     50    <blockquote>
     51      &atilde;&otilde;&ntilde;
     52      &Atilde;&Otilde;&Ntilde;
     53    </blockquote>
     54
     55    <h3>Characters with cedilla</h3>
     56
     57    <blockquote>
     58      &ccedil; &Ccedil;
     59    </blockquote>
     60
     61    <h3>Common ligatures</h3>
     62
     63    <blockquote>
     64      &aelig; &oelig; &AElig; &OElig;
     65    </blockquote>
     66
     67    <h2>Special conventions</h2>
     68
     69    <p>Owing to the high frequency of “long s” &lt;&#x0283;&gt;, this
     70    character should be typed as <tt>$</tt>. (We do not expect to
     71    digitize works that contain both the currency symbol and the s
     72    variant.)</p>
     73
     74    <h2>XML Entity notation</h2>
     75
     76    <p>Characters that cannot be conveniently be typed may be
     77    indicated by means of XML entities. The entities specified
     78    in <a
     79    href="http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/iso8879doc/overview.html">ISO
     80    8879</a> (see
     81    especially <b><a
     82    href="http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/iso8879doc/isolat1.html">isolat1</a></b>
     83    and <b><a
     84    href="http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/iso8879doc/isolat2.html">isolat2</a></b>)
     85    should be used. More generally, some characters may be entered
     86    using conventions specified below:</p>
     87
     88    <p>For characters with accents enumerated above, if the text input
     89    method does not support the composition of the accent with a
     90    certain character, entities may be used thus. For instance, the
     91    operating system typically makes no provision for allowing the
     92    entry of a modified &lt;q&gt; &mdash; yet such characters are
     93    frequent in Latin materials. They may be typed as (e.g.):</p>
     94
     95    <blockquote>
     96      <tt>&amp;qacute; &amp;qgrave; &amp;quml; &amp;qtilde;</tt>
     97    </blockquote>
     98
     99    <p>The ampersand (<tt>&amp;</tt>) must be entered as the
     100    entity <tt>&amp;amp;</tt>, to avoid confusion with its use in
     101    entitites.</p>
     102  </body>
     103</html>
     104}}}