List of contents

Version 2.0 (16 May 2008)

• Title page
• Preface
• Introduction: What is Menota?
• Chap. 1. Text encoding using XML
• Chap. 2. Basic units: characters and words
• Chap. 3. Levels of text representation
• Chap. 4. Document structure
• Chap. 5. Characters: typology and encoding
• Chap. 6. Abbreviations: typology and encoding
• Chap. 7. Altered, corrected and unreadable text
• Chap. 8. Lemmatisation
• Chap. 9. Additional features: Names and metrical encoding
• Chap. 10. The header
• Works cited
• Index

Appendices

• A. Characters
• B. Fonts
• C. XML editors
• D. Menota schemas (DTD, RELAX NG, and entity list)
• E. Menota header
• F. XSLT stylesheets

This handbook may be cited as:

The Menota handbook: Guidelines for the electronic encoding of Medieval Nordic primary sources. Gen. ed. Odd Einar Haugen. Version 2.0. Bergen: Medieval Nordic Text Archive, 2008. <http://www.menota.org/HB2_index.xml>

ISBN 978-82-8088-400-8