Re: VMs: Interlinear block codes, revised...?

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think a good (though perhaps somewhat boring)
> project would be to produce 
> a new version of the interlinear text with
> rationalised block codes, so 
> that programmes (like mine) can sensibly filter
> in/out blocks of text - ie, 
> to examine the stats for the star labels, the pharma
> plant labels, titles, etc.

Agreed. This was the whole purpose of these codes.

> P	paragraph
> L	labels
> T	titles
> C	circular text

The original 'R' was for 'radiating' text, i.e.
text which appears in astro and cosmo diagrams
along lines from the centre to the outside of a
circular figure.

> S	star labels

As regards labels, originally there was only
'L' for a single word near a picture, or 
'S' for a single word in the middle of nowhere.
It could be nice-to-have to have the different 
types of labels with different letters. Id these
are grouped near each other in the alphabet,
it would also be easy for said S/W to filter
out 'all labels'. 

> N	nymph names
> K	key-like letters
> t	pharma plants, top row
> m	pharma plants, middle row
> b	pharma plants, bottom row
> X	\
> Y	 | one-off groups of labels not otherwise
> categorised
> Z	/

On thing still missing is for 'blocks of text'
which are not part of the normal 'flow' of
text top to bottom on a page. This appears in some
areas. It is not very different from 'P',
except that the order is often not certain.

Cheers, Rene

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