List of contents
Version 3.0 (12 December 2019)
Preliminaries
Chapters
- Ch. 1: What is Menota?
- Ch. 2. Text encoding using XML
- Ch. 3. Document structure
- Ch. 4. Levels of text representation
- Ch. 5. Characters and words
- Ch. 6. Abbreviations
- Ch. 7. Initials and other illuminations
- Ch. 8. Fragmentation and uncertainty
- Ch. 9. Scribal and editorial intervention
- Ch. 10. Normalisation
- Ch. 11. Linguistic annotation
- Ch. 12. Names
- Ch. 13. Metrical structure
- Ch. 14. The header
- Ch. 15. Linking to external resources
- Ch. 16. Dealing with overlapping structures
References and index
Appendices
- A. Characters
- B. Fonts
- C. XML editors
- D. Menota schemas (DTD, RELAX NG, and entity list)
- E. Menota header
- F. XSLT stylesheets
- G. Linking to external resources
- H. Stylesheets (XSL and CSS) for the handbook
- I. Menota Light
Tutorials and samples
Citing the handbook
The whole handbook may be cited as:
The Menota handbook: Guidelines for the electronic encoding of Medieval Nordic primary sources. Gen. ed. Odd Einar Haugen. Version 3.0. Bergen: Medieval Nordic Text Archive, 2019. <http://www.menota.org/handbook.xml>
A chapter of the handbook may be cited as:
Friederike Richter and Beeke Stegmann. “Initials and other illuminations.” Ch. 7 of The Menota handbook: Guidelines for the electronic encoding of Medieval Nordic primary sources. Gen. ed. Odd Einar Haugen. Version 3.0. Bergen: Medieval Nordic Text Archive, 2019. <http://www.menota.org/handbook.xml>