Wiki source code of Alignment
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| 1 | During [[collation>>doc:stemmatology.Collation.WebHome]] it may be useful to align the text of several or all witnesses, that is to write their text in a [[txt-document>>doc:stemmatology.Data formats.WebHome]] with spaces so that the parts corresponding to one another are below one another. Compare the illustration below. Alternatively many editors use [[spread-sheets>>doc:stemmatology.Data formats.WebHome]] containing one word per cell to align their collations. There are software programs able to perform this task quite well today. | ||
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| 3 | Cf. [[data formats for textual data>>doc:stemmatology.Data formats for textual data.WebHome]]. | ||
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| 5 | **Illustration** | ||
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| 7 | [[image:attach:alignment.png]] | ||
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| 9 | Fig. 1. An aligned collation from a medical text, currently being edited at the University of Zurich, displaying seven witnesses' text. Where words are missing they are replaced by blank space. | ||
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| 11 | ==== In other languages ==== | ||
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| 13 | DE: Alignment (there seems to be no German word in use) | ||
| 14 | FR: alignement | ||
| 15 | IT: allineamento | ||
| 16 | \\[[PR>>doc:stemmatology.Parvum lexicon stemmatologicum.Contributors.WebHome]] |