Formats and editorial conventions

Citable texts

• texts are citable by URN
• files are in CEX format. They have a header line #!ctsdata followed by one line per citable passage. Each line has two columns delimited by the # character. The first column is the passage’s URN, the second its text contents.

Overview of orthographies and character usage

• latin23: Latin alphabet with 23 alphabetic characters, and no distinction of i/j or u/v
• latin24: Latin alphabet with 24 alphabetic characters. Vocalic u and consonantal v are distinct, but there is but no distinction of i/j.
• latin25: Latin alphabet with 25 alphabetic characters, including vocalic u and i, and consonantal v and j.

Full list of recognized/allowed characters

EXPLICIT LIST TBA

Notes on four characters with special semantics:

1. The new line character \n separates records of citable nodes in the CEX files.
2. The pound sign # separate columns on a given line in the CEX files.
3. Since CEX is a line-oriented format, we use the pipe | to represent line breaks/new line characters within the textual contents of a citable node.
4. Since it is not possible to infer enclitic usage automatically (is ratione the nominative singular of ratio + enclitic ne or the ablative singular?), we use the hyphen - to mark enclitic boundaries.

Because these characters have a special meaning in the structure of our data, they may not be used within the Latin text content of a citable node.

You may of course treat these characters however like for display purposes (replace | with \n and remove -, for example).