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Advanced Editor

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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:  Project owners can configure the advanced editor to have commonly used tags as buttons 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.

The following video shows how a project owner can configure buttons in their project.

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
  • <head></gap> for headings (similar to using ==wiki heading mark-up==)
  • <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
  • <abbr expan="expanded text">abbreviated text</abbr>
  • <lb break="no"/>  a soft break tag.  In non-verbatim exports, combines the end of the line with the beginning of the next when a word is broken across the lines.
  • <marginalia></marginalia>  for noting marginalia
  • <catchword></catchword> for catchwords

 

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