Dear Charles and Andrew,

the DHARMA project’s „Transliteration Guide” is now public at https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02272407 though I should note that a revised version is on the way, with a small number of basic changes. Or method of dealing with symbol characters will likely be simplified, but we’re still working on the exact method. Andrew’s (c), with essentially free text such as (bhale symbol) will almost certainly be endorsed by us, and in a year or two we intend to harvest such pieces of text created by various encoders to see if we can use these as raw material for a controlled vocabulary. Our “Encoding Guide” is still in a pretty raw state, but a public version can be expected in the not too distant future, perhaps a month, definitely before the end of the year. We have also, by the way, devised a way to deal with virāmas and pṛṣṭhamātrās (the former is in the Transliteration Guide; the latter will be in the Encoding Guide). Though of course alternative methods are possible and may be better suited for certain purposes (such as Jean-Luc Chevillard’s aim of reproducing the ambiguities present in an original text as accurately as possible), we would of course be happy of others also adopted the methods we (will) have devised.

All the best,

Daniel

Feladó: Andrew Ollett
Elküldve: 2019. november 1., péntek 23:27
Címzett: indic-texts@lists.tei-c.org
Tárgy: Re: [Indic-texts] encoding/transcribing the bhale symbol

Charles,

Regarding setting up a section on the Indic Texts Wiki: please do feel free. You will need to register, but I don't think you need to be a TEI member to register. 

I think the DHARMA project has plans to create a list of such symbols, which would presumably be represented by the <g> element in EpiDoc editions. Whether and how those symbols would be displayed is a different matter. I suppose the options are (a) represent the symbol as it is found in the document, with an image; (b) represent the symbol with a "standard form" (e.g., the "Jain Om" included in the Unicode standard; for symbols like bhale, this is more complicated); or (c) represent the symbol with something like "(bhale symbol)," making no attempt to copy its form. Does anyone have preferences or experiences with any of these options? 

Andrew

On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 2:23 PM Charles Li <cchli@cantab.net> wrote:

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone has been encoding/transcribing the bhale
symbol, and how you represent it. It doesn't seem to have made it into
Unicode yet.

As a follow-up to that, I was wondering if it was possible to set up a
section of IndicTexts TEIWiki to document encoding/transcribing
practices in current and past projects. I've thought a few times about
putting together a document that just lists the different ways people
have transcribed pṛṣṭhamātrās, virāmas, etc. that isn't covered in any
specification.

Best,

Charles

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