List of contents

Version 2.0 (16 May 2008)

Title page

Preface

Introduction: What is Menota?

Chap. 1. Text encoding using XML

Chap. 2. Basic units: characters and words

Chap. 3. Levels of text representation

Chap. 4. Document structure

Chap. 5. Characters: typology and encoding

Chap. 6. Abbreviations: typology and encoding

Chap. 7. Altered, corrected and unreadable text

Chap. 8. Lemmatisation

Chap. 9. Additional features: Names and metrical encoding

Chap. 10. The header

Works cited

Index

Appendices

A. Characters

B. Fonts

C. XML editors

D. Menota schemas (DTD, RELAX NG, and entity list)

E. Menota header

F. XSLT stylesheets

This handbook may be cited as:

The Menota handbook: Guidelines for the electronic encoding of Medieval Nordic primary sources. Ed. Odd Einar Haugen. Version 2.0. Bergen: Medieval Nordic Text Archive, 2008. <http://www.menota.org/guidelines>