Blackboard Discussion Samples:
Subject: symbol?
Hi again, on page 54 at the end of statement number 16, there is a symbol
that I cannot tell what it is supossed to mean. I think it might be a kind
of etc. type thing, but I have no idea how to enter it.
Author: Stickney, Zeph <zstickne@wheatonma.edu>
Subject Re: symbol?
The symbol is a common 19th cent. way of indicating etc., using a plus sign
followed by a c and a period: +c. Now, how that is to be rendered, I must
defer to Scott!
Author: Hamlin, Scott <shamlin@wheatoncollege.edu>
Subject Re: symbol?
If that is definitely a plus sign and a c and period, then I would try
to keep it simple and go with
+c.
I was wondering if that was a sloppy "etc." but I am sure Zeph knows what she is talking about! So go with the above.
Subject: tear drop code?
What would be the code for a tear drop or a waterspot?
Author: Hamlin, Scott <shamlin@wheatoncollege.edu>
Subject: tear drop code?
Are they in fact tear drops? We don't know for sure.
This gets into tricky territory.... and complicated coding. I think we need to keep things simple for this project and just ignore the drops in the encoding.
But I will say that this should show you in a very graphic way how important it is to actually look at the primary sources for some types of research. There are always things that are left out of any transcription of an original document.
Subject: overwriting and crossed out letter
I'm wondering what code I use if she wrote 'lived', and then crossed out
the 'd', so it would say 'live'.
and my other question is about what I should do if there is something underwritten
under the word 'commence' on page 65, line 12 but I can't tell what letter
are under. thanks.
Author: Hamlin, Scott <shamlin@wheatoncollege.edu>
Subject Re: overwriting and crossed out letter
>I'm wondering what code I use if she wrote 'lived', and then
> crossed out the 'd', so it would say 'live'.
Write it like this: like<del rend="overstrike">d</del>
>what I should do if there is something underwritten under the
>word 'commence' on page 65, line 12 but I can't tell what
>letter are under.
That looks like the letter "l" to me, but I can't be sure. If
it is an "l" then you would code it like this:
<del rend="overwritten">l</del><add place="overwritten">c</add>ommenced
Let me see if I can get Zeph to weigh in on what she thinks is overwritten
there. If no consensus can be reached, there is a way to code unclear text.
Author: Stickney, Zeph <zstickne@wheatonma.edu>
Subject Re: overwriting and crossed out letter
Sometimes you need to look at the context and think about what other word
or synonym the author might have used. In this case, I think Maria started
to write "begin" and changed it to "commence" (sounds
more erudite, doesn't it?). She seems to have just begun the "b".
Hope this helps.
Zeph