To enter or edit the transliteration of your texts, click in the "Transliteration" tab of the
Text Editor in the upper centre of the
Text Corpus view.
Transliteration follows the BTS grammar
rules.
The most important rules are the following
- Start and end each sentence with the sentence marker "§".
- Use the "space" key only between two words or extratextual information, not after typing
a sentence marker "§" or after opening brackets.
- Brackets come in pairs. You have to close every bracket you have opened. Sometimes the
system will do this automatically, but there are cases where that does not work. Clicking
"CTRL+Space" will show the markers that are allowed at the position of the cursor. For
recurring elements you also can define a template in the Preferences.
- The dual and plural endings are transcribed with ".w" or ".wj/.tj" when written
phonetically. When marked graphically, they are transcribed with ".pl" or ".du". When the
plural and dual endings are written both phonetically and graphically they are transcribed
with both options: "w.pl" or ".wj/.tj.du".
- Ambiguities are entered as: "%case 1: rd.du| case 2: war,t.du%". Be careful not to type
a space in front of the vertical stroke. You can input as many cases as you need.
- It is not allowed to leave out an ending ("nb."), to write two full stops ("nb.."), to
close brackets before you open them ("n]b[") or to interlace different kinds of brackets
wrongly ("{n[b}]").
Using Templates
It is possible to use templates in order to speed up the transliteration process. Note that
you can create your own templates (Preferences). You can access
the templates by right-clicking in Text Editor and choosing "Content Assist". Depending on the
position of the cursor (within a sentence / word or outside the sentence marked by §§) you
will get a different set of templates to choose from. This can be influenced by changing the
"Context" of your templates (see Preferences).
Adding Extra-textual Information
- Line counts are introduced by #lc: and end with #. The numbers are written in
square brackets. E.g.: Line 1 = #lc: [1]#
- Paragraphs start with #para: and end with #. E.g.: CT VI 106a = #para: CT VI
106a#
- A destruction is indicated by two hyphens --...--. E.g.: --rest of line
destroyed--, --3Q-- (destruction of 3 scriptorial squares).
- If the number of words missing can be determined, use underscores in brackets "[___]".
E.g.: "[___] [___]" for 2 missing words.
- All other descriptive information is to be put between "#": E.g.: #in front of the first
person looking left:#; #3Q are left empty#.
Some transliteration conventions
See Grammar Reference
for detailed information.
