Re: VMs: vms sentences

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Larry Roux" lroux@xxxxxxx wrote
on 07 February 2004 15:49


> OK, here is an example:
> 
> Look at any of the final pages with lots of text.  Take 115v for
> instance....
> 
> The page is a run over from the previous page so the first character of
> the first line is a "t".  The characters/lines progress until there is
> an obvious break. 
> 
> The next text grouping is on line 6 which starts with a "p".  This is a
> new paragraph.  There are 2 more sentences in this group.  Line 8
> (starts with a "t" and line 11 (starts with a "t").
> 
> Line 13 is another new paragraph (starts with a "p").
> 
> The whole page (and all of the pages) work just like this.
> 
> I am not sure what internal 'p's and 't's mean yet, but I know for a
> fact that for the left most character in a line the p or t has meaning
> related to sentences/paragraphs.  I very much doubt this is a red
> herring.
> 
> This also means that transcriptions should remove "p"s and "t"s when
> they begin sentences/paragraphs.  The first word of f115v is not tchedor
> but chedor
> 

Go for it Larry! I know you are right!

Jeff


> >>> incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 02/07/04 04:18 AM >>>
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> At 00:39 07/02/2004 +0000, Jeff wrote:
> >From: "Nick Pelling" <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > At 12:00 04/02/2004 -0500, Larry Roux wrote:
> > > >This is all guesswork, but my feeling is that new paragraphs are
> lines
> > > >that start with EVA "P", and new sentences begin with EVA "t".   I
> have
> > > >not identified further breakdown of structure as of this point.
> > >
> > > I don't think this is highly likely, sorry: "t"s can be very closely
> > > clustered, or far apart - there's no consistency I can see that
> would
> > > suggest this.
> >
> >Oh yes there is Nick
> 
> If you can see some consistency there, please tell me what it is so that
> I 
> can see it too.
> 
> The patterns I see are more to do with Neal keys - short sets of text 
> (typically 2/3rds along the top line of a paragraph) enclosed by pairs
> of 
> single-leg gallows. But nothing obviously to do with EVA <t>.
> 
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 
> 
> 
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