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Why the line-edge layer: run the layout method on diplomatic (unexpanded) transcriptions of fifteenth-century Latin and vernacular manuscripts to see what real scribes' line-start and line-end habits look like. Data: CATMuS Medieval (line-level, abbreviations unexpanded, CC BY 4.0), the Referenzkorpus Frühneuhochdeutsch (diplomatic, with line breaks) and Menota.
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Copying evidence: catalogue dittography, eye-skip, corrections and erasures from the transliteration's markup and the multispectral images. Data needed: a page-by-page correction and erasure inventory.
~10 h
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