Re: Editing Arabic TEI

Okay, just need to add that I am not a fraud, really. This message is about XML and oXygen and Arabic characters. Really. Maybe the detector doesn't like the Turkish name?

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From: TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) public discussion list [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ondine LeBlanc
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 4:50 PM
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At the 2015 Institute for Editing Historical Documents, we had a participant who is working on editing (transliterating and translating) Ottoman legal texts, and his plans now include a digital edition. His name is Safa Saraçoğlu, and he presented on his project at the Association for Documentary Editing meeting last summer. I would be surprised if he hasn't now had a good bit of experience with this. I believe he is still at Bloomsburg University: http://bloomu.edu/saracoglu

Ondine

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From: TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) public discussion list [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Birnbaum, David J
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 4:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Editing Arabic TEI

Dear TEI-L,

I don't work with Arabic texts myself, but some of my students and colleagues do, and one has just asked me to recommend an XML editor. I use Oxygen for all of my own work, and I've watched the video that SyncroSoft produced about editing Arabic in the Oxygen Author view, but before I point my colleague in that and only that direction, I wanted to ask what others have used to edit Arabic TEI documents. When I've poked at Arabic in Oxygen before (older versions, though, so the following may no longer be the case), the Text view sometimes stranded angle brackets in the wrong place. The Author view obviously (no angle brackets) didn't do that, but it broke onto new lines in places that made sense from an engineering perspective, but that made the continuous text harder to read. All in all, it was usable, but should my colleague also be considering alternatives?

Thanks,

David
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Turning Points in American History is on display at the MHS Monday through Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM through 25 February. . More information is available at www.masshist.org.

Ondine LeBlanc, Director of Publications
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-646-0524, Fax: 617-859-0074
Email: [email protected]