[MEI-L] critical commentary

Wed Apr 12 01:08:16 CEST 2017

Hi Karen,

It's somewhat abusive, since there are better places to put most of this stuff, but you could use <projectDesc> --

<projectDesc>
  <head>Mon chant/Qui doloreus</head>
  <p>Notes on transcription process: Scanned file corrected from PMFC (Howes 3/24/2016), Rhythmic
    durations augmented following our project’s transcription conventions. Pitches, rhythms and
    mensural notation features checked and corrected against Iv (Desmond 4/10/17). Sources: Durham
    (fol. 339r, triplum only), Iv (fols. 22v-23r); listed in Trem Previous editions: PMFC V, 80-3.
    Note on the poems: Texts from PMFC; variants in Iv noted below (Desmond 4/10/17). Variants: The
    copy text for this transcription is the version found in Iv. Clefs: c2 c2 c4 Tr ‘1 en’ / 2
    ‘beus’ / 4 ‘mesonches’ / 8 c1 clef / 9 ‘mons’ / 22 ‘des’ supplied by PMFC / 26 ’ne’ written
    twice in Iv / 32 ‘ destre namer’ / 39 ‘que je aour’ Mot 61 no dot in Iv / 141 no dot in Iv / 16
    ‘sens’ / 19 ‘maint’ supplied by PMFC / 34 ‘por nous’ ‘cui’ / 37 ‘Orec’</p>
</projectDesc>

But, I think <extMeta>, the official place for "other well-formed XML", would be a better choice.

You can put HTML there, which might be helpful if you're going to display this text on the web anyway --

<extMeta>
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <h1>Mon chant/Qui doloreus</h1>
    <h2>Notes on transcription process:</h2>
    <p>Scanned file corrected from PMFC (Howes 3/24/2016), Rhythmic durations augmented following
      our project’s transcription conventions. Pitches, rhythms and mensural notation features
      checked and corrected against Iv (Desmond 4/10/17).</p>
    <h2>Sources:</h2>
    <p>Durham (fol. 339r, triplum only), Iv (fols. 22v-23r); listed in Trem</p>
    <h2>Previous editions:</h2>
    <p>PMFC V, 80-3.</p>
    <h2>Note on the poems:</h2>
    <p>Texts from PMFC; variants in Iv noted below (Desmond 4/10/17).</p>
    <h2>Variants:</h2>
    <p>The copy text for this transcription is the version found in Iv.</p>
    <h2>Clefs:</h2>
    <p>c2 c2 c4 Tr ‘1 en’ / 2 ‘beus’ / 4 ‘mesonches’ / 8 c1 clef / 9 ‘mons’ / 22 ‘des’ supplied by
      PMFC / 26 ’ne’ written twice in Iv / 32 ‘ destre namer’ / 39 ‘que je aour’ Mot 61 no dot in Iv
      / 141 no dot in Iv / 16 ‘sens’ / 19 ‘maint’ supplied by PMFC / 34 ‘por nous’ ‘cui’ / 37
      ‘Orec’</p>
  </html>
</extMeta>

or something else with a structure of your choosing --

<karenStuff xmlns="karen.desmond.info">[Karen's Own Well-formed XML]</karenStuff>

Beware!  MEI will choke if the children of <extMeta> (<html> or <karenStuff> in these examples) don't have an xmlns attribute.  But, the namespace doesn't have to be a real one.  It can even be the "no-namespace" namespace --

<karenStuff xmlns="">[...]</karenStuff>

that is, where @xmlns has an empty value.

You should also lose the so-called "smart" quotes.  They're not very smart and they don't play nice with others. ;-)

Hope this helps,

--
p.

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