Glossary
Encoding standards
Section titled “Encoding standards”TEI — the Text Encoding Initiative, and its XML vocabulary for scholarly texts.
TEI P5 — the current major version of the TEI Guidelines. Saga-Scribe validates against
the tei_all schema.
MENOTA — the Medieval Nordic Text Archive, and its recommendations for encoding medieval Nordic texts in TEI. See menota.org.
MUFI — the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, whose character repertoire supplies the special characters used in transcriptions of medieval manuscripts.
Junicode — the font bundled with Saga-Scribe and used for MUFI characters.
RelaxNG — a schema language; the MENOTA P5 schema is a RelaxNG schema.
TEI-XML — a TEI document written in XML. The output of Saga-Scribe’s compiler.
Transcription
Section titled “Transcription”Shorthand / DSL — the plain-text notation used in the editor. “DSL” (domain-specific language) is the name used in the source code.
Marker — a piece of shorthand syntax, such as // or .abbr[...]{...}, that the
compiler turns into markup.
Word token — a <w> element: a word as the compiler and the previews count it.
Lemmas and annotations are stored by word number.
Facsimile (me:facs) — the transcription close to the manuscript, with special
characters as entities.
Diplomatic (me:dipl) — the transcription with special characters resolved to their
usual forms.
Normalized (me:norm) — the standardized form of a word, set during lemmatization.
Lemma — the dictionary headword of a word.
Morphological analysis / me:msa — MENOTA codes describing a word’s class and
inflection.
Diplomatic form — the form a special-character entity takes on the diplomatic and normalized levels; configured in the entity browser.
Files and workflow
Section titled “Files and workflow”Project (.teis) — the ZIP archive holding the shorthand, compiled XML, lemmas,
annotations, metadata, and the original of an imported file.
Template — the header, closing markup and encoding options used to compile a document.
Stylesheet / XSLT — a transformation applied to the compiled XML for the XSLT preview and for HTML and PDF export.
Imported mode — editing an existing TEI-XML file while preserving unedited content byte for byte.
Round trip — reading a TEI file into the shorthand and writing it back. A round trip without edits must leave the file byte-identical.
Word identity — the tracking that keeps lemmas and annotations attached to the same words when text is inserted, deleted or edited.
Abbreviations
Section titled “Abbreviations”DSE — digital scholarly edition.
ONP — the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose.
Tauri — the framework used to build the Saga-Scribe desktop application (Rust backend, system web view).
SvelteKit — the web framework used for the application’s frontend.