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Advanced Editor

advancededitorThe advanced editor is currently in Beta stage.  That means it won’t be enabled by default, but you can choose to turn it on.  Please report any bugs or improvements to support@fromthepage.com.

To enable the new editor click the following link:
https://fromthepage.com/feature/codemirror/enable
which enables it just for the “session” — in other words, until you log out or are inactive for a while.
You can disable it by clicking on:
http://fromthepage.com/feature/codemirror/disable

The advanced editor supports projects and users who encode text using tags whether html or tei-xml in the following ways:

Syntax highlighting:  Tags are set off from the transcribed text using color to draw the eye to them and reduce errors.

Auto completion:  As a user types part of a tag, they can either press ctrl-S or the tab key and (if this is a recognized tag) the editor will automatically complete the rest of the tag.

Tag balancing:  If a user opens a tag like <sup> then transcribes text, closing that tag with an incorrect closing tag (like </u>) will be highlighted in red.  Autocompleting will automatically close tags, so typing </ followed by a tab will complete the </sup> tag.

Buttons:  Commonly used tags have button helpers at the top of the screen.  Users can either press the button to create a tag pair and then type text within it or select existing text and press a button to wrap the text within that tag.

Tags with attributes (like date) can use auto completion or buttons to suggest attribute names and even values.

Currently supported tags:

  • <add></add> for text insertions
  • <cb></cb> to indicate a break between columns
  • <date when=”20201209″></date> to indicate a date, with an attribute of when
  • <figure></figure> to indicate a figure or illustration in the text
  • <gap></gap> for missing text
  • <stamp></stamp> for stamps on envelops
  • <table></table> with child attributes of row and cell
  • <unclear></unclear> for text that is difficult to read
  • <strike></strike> or <s></s> or <hi rend=str></hi> for struck through text
  • <sup></sup> or <hi rend=sup></hi> for superscript text
  • <u></u> or <hi rend=underline></hi> for underlined text
  • <date when=”YYYY-MM-DD”></date> for dates.  Dates are in EDTF format, which supports uncertainty in historical dating.
  • <expan orig=”original text”>expanded text</expan> for expanding abbreviations, for example: <expan orig=”qᵃtorsimes”>quatorsiemes</expan>
  • <reg orig=”original text”>regularized text</reg> for regularizing text

 

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