List of contents

Version 3.0 (12 December 2019)

Preliminaries

• Title page
• Preface

Chapters

• Ch. 1: What is Menota?
• Ch. 2. Text encoding using XML
• Ch. 3. Document structure
• Ch. 4. Levels of text representation
• Ch. 5. Characters and words
• Ch. 6. Abbreviations
• Ch. 7. Initials and other illuminations
• Ch. 8. Fragmentation and uncertainty
• Ch. 9. Scribal and editorial intervention
• Ch. 10. Normalisation
• Ch. 11. Linguistic annotation
• Ch. 12. Names
• Ch. 13. Metrical structure
• Ch. 14. The header
• Ch. 15. Linking to external resources
• Ch. 16. Dealing with overlapping structures

References and index

• Literature and images
• Index of elements and attributes

Appendices

• A. Characters
• B. Fonts
• C. XML editors
• D. Menota schemas (DTD, RELAX NG, and entity list)
• E. Menota header
• F. XSLT stylesheets
• G. Linking to external resources
• H. Stylesheets (XSL and CSS) for the handbook
• I. Menota Light

Tutorials and samples

• Tutorial
• Samples

Citing the handbook

The whole handbook may be cited as:

The Menota handbook: Guidelines for the electronic encoding of Medieval Nordic primary sources. Gen. ed. Odd Einar Haugen. Version 3.0. Bergen: Medieval Nordic Text Archive, 2019. <http://www.menota.org/handbook.xml>

A chapter of the handbook may be cited as:

Friederike Richter and Beeke Stegmann. “Initials and other illuminations.” Ch. 7 of The Menota handbook: Guidelines for the electronic encoding of Medieval Nordic primary sources. Gen. ed. Odd Einar Haugen. Version 3.0. Bergen: Medieval Nordic Text Archive, 2019. <http://www.menota.org/handbook.xml>