Menota Handbook 3.0
Guidelines for the electronic encoding of
Medieval Nordic primary sources
  • Menota main page
  • List of contents

List of contents

Version 3.0 (12 December 2019)

Preliminaries

  • Title page
  • Preface

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

  • Literature and images
  • Index of elements and attributes

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

  • Tutorial
  • 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>

 

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