Menota Snippets

This Extension contains a set of snippets to increase productivity when transcribing medieval nordic manuscripts in Menota TEI XML.

For more information on Menota, see menota.org or the Menota handbook.

How To Use

When in an XML file, hit Ctrl + Space to open intellisense code completion, or simply start typing me:.
VS Code will suggest the Menota snippets, pick the one you want with the arrow keys (or by continuing to type) ant then hint Enter.

The caret will automatically be at the fist place you need to fill in. Keep filling in and hitting Tab to jump to the next section.

Features

Overview

Adds the following snippets:

me:document: template document to start transcribing from. (Including minimal header and document structure. Insert it at the beginning, then modify afterwards.)
me:word: Word tag in three level transcription.

Details

Document

me:document is resolved into:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!-- To change the level of display in the stylesheet output, change '...facs.xsl' to '...dipl.xsl' or '...norm.xsl' in the next line -->
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.menota.org/menota_xslt_3_facs.xsl"?>

<!DOCTYPE TEI 
[
<!ENTITY % Menota_entities SYSTEM 'http://www.menota.org/menota-entities.txt'>
%Menota_entities; ]>

<TEI  xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:me="http://www.menota.org/ns/1.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BalduinLandolt/menota-xsd-schema/master/menota.xsd">
    <teiHeader>
        <fileDesc>
            <titleStmt>
                <title>title</title>
                <editor>your_name</editor>
            </titleStmt>
            <editionStmt>
                <p></p>
            </editionStmt>
            <extent></extent>
            <publicationStmt>
                <p></p>
            </publicationStmt>
            <notesStmt>
                <note></note>
            </notesStmt>
            <sourceDesc>
                <msDesc>
                    <msIdentifier>
                        <idno>shelfmark</idno>
                    </msIdentifier>
                </msDesc>
            </sourceDesc>
        </fileDesc>
    </teiHeader>
    <text>
        <body>
            <div>
                <p>
                    <!-- Start Transcribing here -->
                    
                    
                    
                    
                </p>
            </div>
        </body>
    </text>
</TEI>

Note: Only the most important fields of the header ("title", "editor" and "idno") are marked with placeholders (hit Tab to traverse them).
Be sure to add all necessary information to the header in due time. An extensive guide can be found here.

Word

me:word is resolved into:

<w>
    <me:facs>facs</me:facs>
    <me:dipl>dipl</me:dipl>
    <me:norm>norm</me:norm>
</w>

Requirements

None.

Extension Settings

Contributes: the above named snippets.

Known Issues

None.

Feedback and Contributions.

Any feedback is most welcome. If you have any suggestions or wishes, or if there are more snippets you feel should be added, please create an Issue on Github.

Release Notes

1.0.0

Initial release.

menota-snippets

Balduin Landolt