#136 Improve and consolidate GLs on verse and metre

[BODARD Gabriel]

• The Guidelines page on verse lines does not give much information on encoding of metre, verse, etc. (nor incidentally does the GLs process render $verselines="on" adequately).
• The pages on Metrical fragments and Lost, metre known seem to be describing the same features, but neither alone (nor even together) quite covers it.

Both of the above should be improved, completed and implemented.

[Pietro Maria Liuzzo]

Here are some notes after a meeting with Alice Bencivenni to discuss this issue.
some questions
does anyone see troubles in merging into one the two almost identical pages Metrical Fragments and Lost, metre known?
should we document also the use or not use of metDecl as per TEI guidelines? we do not know of any project actually using this, although it is prescribed (should be) in TEI for the use of att.metrical

Our intended way to procede is to

1. enlarge the number of examples in Verse Lines with
   * some of the examples offered in this presentation for @real and @met and the numbering of lg
   * Examples from GVCyr for lg, l
   * example values for the above attributes from Dharma guidelines (limited to -+=)
   these examples will cover
   * numbering of verse lines and lines in the inscriptions
   * use of @met, @real in l, lg and seg or combinations
   * eventually documentation usage in metDecl (see above)
2. eventually merging the two above pages in one and fixing references to the deleted one
3. fixing the xslt to render for each of the examples in Verse Line page beside the normal rendering also the verse rendering of the text

[Pietro Maria Liuzzo]

Documenting some edits not yet committed to svn, which I have made to address point 3 above and which I have emailed as well.
In my local copy I have
- edited the Oxygen project adding a scenario "Generate Verse Examples"
- the scenario "Generate Verse Examples" sets only verse-lines to "on" and no other parameter. it behaves exactly as the other examples otherwise, it is simply an edited copy of one of the others
- edited the readme to add this to the scenarios to be run before generating the HTML
- in createEpidocViews I have passed also the parm-verse-lines in the first template matching /
- in epidoc-html.xsl I have added GVCyr: and IGCyr examples rendering instructions for links
- in render-epidoc.xsl I have added some conditions for a value "verse" to be used in egXML/@rend, so that it does not say something like "verse style:" but "verse parameter on:"

[Pietro Maria Liuzzo]

Alice Bencivenni sent new examples and I have added those to trans-verseline.xml, trans-metricafragment.xml and trans-lostcharmetre.xml. This last has not yet been removed, but I removed the line saying that the rendering is not given.

[Pietro Maria Liuzzo]

here is a screenshot of one of the edited pages using the new examples and the new transformation scenario

[Pietro Maria Liuzzo]

https://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/code/2765/

[Emmanuelle Morlock]

Seems very fine to me. Maybe some info about what impact for the parameter on in the first example from GvCyr007 to be completely explicit.