Currently, the EpiDoc guidelines for Languages and scripts is incomplete, with the subsection 'Marking transitions in language and/or script in the text' showing that it is 'tba'. While the subject is touched upon on briefly in the Multi-language Texts section, it would be wonderful to have specific guideines on how to deal with multilingual and multiscriptal inscriptions.
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Wrote further guidance on handling languages and scripts in https://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/code/2817/ and added a number of examples from the US Epigraphy Project; can use a look over from someone other than me to confirm that everything appears to be in order and that nothing is untoward, but should otherwise be ready to go for the upcoming release.
I've made a couple of very tiny tweaks to this page (specifying that
@xml:lang
may go on children of<div type="translation">
; added<gi>
tags), but otherwise it looks great to me. Many thanks!I've got some bilingual examples from papyri.info that have interspersed Greek and Arabic for which I think
<seg>
is way more appropriate than<foreign>
. Happy to add one or two if that would be useful.Here's an example, modified from https://papyri.info/ddbdp/cpr;3;38. The usual problems of chaos with Arabic in XML obtain, of course.
Perfect, thanks; copied into the file and will commit. If anything else needs tweaking, please feel free to clarify.
This looks great! Made a couple of tiny tweaks to the page, and marking this ticket as 'done'.