addressing textual variants in the apparatus

[Tom Elliott]

The following was provided by @hermaion82 at the NYC workshop:

A typical variant case:

papyrus reads (ll. 1-2):

                                 —  —  —
            καὶ τὰς ε]ὖ̣ π̣[ολιτευομένας
                   πόλ]ε[ι]ς̣ π̣ε̣ρ̣ὶ̣̣ [τούτου μάλιστα

and we want to say that it follows part of the manuscript tradition:

(apparatus) 1-2  τὰς ε]ὖ̣ π̣[ολιτευομένας | πόλ]ε[ι]ς̣ fort. pap. cum Γ : τὰς πόλεις τὰς εὖ φιλοτίμους πολιτευομένας ΛΠΝit: τὰς πόλεις τὰς εὖ φιλοτίμως πολιτευομένας ΘΝ1sl

I would envision something like what follows at the Leiden+ level:

<:τὰς ε]ὖ̣ π̣[ολιτευομένας2.- πόλ]ε[ι]ς̣=pap. fort. cum Γ||var||τὰς πόλεις τὰς εὖ φιλοτίμους πολιτευομένα=ΛΠΝit|τὰς πόλεις τὰς εὖ φιλοτίμως πολιτευομένας=ΘΝ1sl:>

which should conceal the following XML (or the like):

<app type="variant"><lem resp="pap. fort. cum Γ">τὰς ε]ὖ̣ π̣[ολιτευομένας <lb n="2"/>πόλ]ε[ι]ς̣</lem><rdg resp="ΛΠΝit">τὰς πόλεις τὰς εὖ φιλοτίμους πολιτευομένα</rdg><rdg resp="ΘΝ1sl">τὰς πόλεις τὰς εὖ φιλοτίμως πολιτευομένας</rdg></app>

The HTML output should resemble the abovementioned apparatus.

[Tom Elliott]

I'm interested in aligning our approach to encoding this stuff with what the Digital Latin Library is doing, since they've thought about lemmata, manuscript families, etc. Their guidelines are here: https://github.com/DigitalLatin/guidelines