Presentation of the Material
By default, the edited documents are presented in accordance with the conventions
followed in The Complete Works of W. H. Auden (1993-2022), edited by Edward Mendelson. Optionally, original text features, such
as deletions, can be displayed, and users can modify presentation preferences.
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The default view offers the following features:
- one view per page recto and verso
- vertical arrangements of texts that partially represent the original layout
- different fonts to represent handwriting (Times New Roman), typewriting (Courier New),
and print (Arial)
- reading versions of texts that do not contain deletions, underlines, additional typographic
whitespace, or indications of unclear characters
- italics to represent originally underlined text
- indications of undecipherable characters (if not deleted)
- facsimiles displayed through a plugin viewer, with controls to adjust image size
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The following display options are available:
- original text features: deletions, underlines, additional typographic whitespace
- indications of unclear characters, which cannot be transcribed with certainty
- choice of fonts and font sizes
- full-screen view
- text-focus view without facsimile
Image Digitization
The documents have been reproduced at 600 dpi and 24 bit/RGB through an Image Access
WideTEK®25 color flatbed scanner and saved in an uncompressed TIFF format. Selected
materials (images 5 and 6 in https://amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/amp-transcript__0039.html,
images 3 and 4 in https://amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/amp-transcript__0040.html) have been
digitized at 603.1 dpi and 24 bit by means of a Phase One XF IQ3 100MP medium-format
camera with a Schneider Kreuznach 80mm f/2.8 leaf shutter lens. The high-resolution
digital reproductions can be accessed via https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/auden-musulin-papers/facs.
On the website, images are provided through IIIF.
Transcription and Markup Guidelines of v0.1
Source transcriptions as encoded in TEI/XML represent the spelling, punctuation, and
revisions as they appear, aiming for minimal editorial intervention or interpretation.
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Spelling
- The original spelling in both manuscripts and typescripts is retained, even if irregular.
- Characters that cannot be transcribed with certainty are marked up as <unclear> in
XML and can be highlighted in grey on the web page.
- Handwritten characters are not marked up as <unclear> in XML when they can be identified
as a consistent and typical feature of the respective author's handwriting.
- Signatures are not marked up as <unclear>.
- Characters that cannot be transcribed are marked up as <gap> in XML and represented
by means of square brackets on the web page.
- Superscripts have not yet been marked up and are not represented on the web page.
- Numericals
- For typescripts, the characters 'I' (uppercase i) and 'O' (uppercase o) designating
the numbers 1 and 0 (zero), respectively, are preserved.
- For manuscripts, the anglophone variant writing of the numeral 1 is represented by
'1'.
- Punctuation and Spaces
- The original punctuation is retained, even if irregular.
- Punctuation signs that cannot be transcribed with certainty are rendered by UTF-8/Unicode
symbols that represent a graphical approximation, marked up as <unclear> in XML.
- For manuscripts, when spaces before or after punctuation marks are significantly smaller
than the spaces separating words in the surrounding text, no spaces are transcribed.
- For manuscripts, the length of spaces between words is regularized and represented
as either single space or no space.
- For typescripts, the exact number of spaces within sentences is preserved (but not
before titles and page numbers) and marked up as <space> in XML.
- Blank lines between lines of writing are disregarded.
- Page Layout
- Original line breaks and sections of text are retained.
- The transcription of each document is contained within a TEI <div> element. Each transcription
is subdivided by means of <pb> and <p> elements.
- Underline
- Underlines are marked up as <hi rend="underline"> and can be graphically represented
on the web page. By default, they are represented in italics on the web page.
- Underlines are not represented if they form part of signatures.
- Underlines in typescripts are rendered precisely and include, for instance, empty
spaces before or after words if they are underlined in the source document; transcriptions
of underlines in manuscripts ignore underlined spaces before or after words.
- Characters whose legibility is impaired by smudges and overwritings are marked up
as <unclear> in XML and can be represented in grey on the web page.
- Revisions
- Deletions of text are marked up as <del> in XML and can be represented on the web
page.
- For overwritings in manuscripts and typescripts, we have accepted the orthographically
or grammatically accurate versions as corrections, even if the actual sequences of
textual layers cannot be reconstructed.
- For transcriptions of typescripts - in addition to handwritten deletions - we accept
the use of the typed signs 'x', 'm', 'z', 'y', '-', and '/' as indicating deletions
where such deletion seems plausible.
- When additions are inserted into manuscripts or typescripts, surrounding spaces are
included in ways that are coherent with the general use of spaces in the respective
texts.
- When additions replace deleted words in typescripts, they are inserted directly after
the deletions without additional spaces in between.
- When it is uncertain whether characters have been deleted, the passage in question
is marked up as <unclear><del><gap reason="deleted"/><del/><unclear/>.
- For typescripts by Musulin, we accept handwritten underlines of deleted passages as
cancelled deletions.
- Multiple overwritings in the same place of a typescript (when character 'x' is overwritten
by character 'y', which, in turn, is overwritten by 'z') are represented as nested
deletions: '<del><del>x</del>y</del>z'
- Pre-printed Components and Postal Additions
- Pre-printed letter heads and sender addresses are transcribed.
- Image captions in postcards are transcribed.
- Postmarks and stamps are not transcribed.
- Pre-printed postal texts and images in telegrams and aerograms are not rendered in
the transcriptions.
- Writing technologies (handwriting, typewriting) are marked up by means of the <...
hand="..."> attribute in XML and are represented through different fonts on the web
page.