At poets.aule-browser.com I have added Curl markup of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116.
The subtlety of the otherwise elegant markup is only evident when resizing the browser window horizontally: the lexical equivalents flow in and collapse.
Most of the lines are in Curl web content markup using a simple text-format defined so as to enable
{ln Let me not to the marriage of true minds }
{ln Admit ... next line with footnote }
The superscript degree symbol is given with
some word{lex-mrk}
and the full line includes
some word{lex-mrk} more words {gap}{lex synonym1 / synonym2}
As yet I have no alternative to explicitly specifying an auto-adjusting filler width with a {gap} as markup.
A line with lexical annotation is a
{linx A line with the sounds of crepitating{lex-mrk} leaf litter ... {lex crisp / crackling}
A footnote, as usual, is {fn 1} which gives a small superscript numeral and the corresponding annotation is in
{footnote 1 The expected footnote in a suitable small font}
For the complexity of the sliding annotation presentation, the markup remains suitably minimalist and simple to learn, master and retain.
Versions of the poem without footnotes or other annotation use the SAME source file with the SAME unchanged markup. This is an alternative to the usual separation of content and presentation. This permits using the same source for both teaching, tutoring and practice examinations: one source file with different home page format definitions.
For foreign language poetry instruction this has many advantages.
The next version will include optional line meter presented below each line of the sonnet.
I have a note for the global Curl community at http://communities.curl.com/showthread.php?tid=336&pid=890.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Freud Gradiva
I have added German and English versions of Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva and Freud's essay to poets.aule-browser.com. It is a companion to the Luther Bibel: the connection is dreams. The new web page requires the Curl RTE browser plugin.
In Freud's Traumdeutung text there are passages which must be read in the original in order to reflect Freud's own tendentious readings onto his own writings. The parallel with the Luther Bibel might seem mistaken: Freud's family did not originate in Catholic Vienna: they were Jews in Galicia, where the few Protestants were Augsburg Confession, Confessio Augustana. But Freud earnestly sought the Lutheran-minded Jung (Binswanger, for example, while Swiss, was from a Jewish family of Augsburg) as has often been noted. In the wider world, the Germans were Lutherans (see the struggle of the Lutheran convert Husserl in the Freiburg university and the long standing issue of Catholic influence intruding into Protestant "instances".)
In some ways you might see Freud's later "metapsychology" essays as his struggle to post his "theses". Sigismund Schlomo Freud certainly saw his psychoanalytic movement as comparable to that of a Moses or a Luther or a Galileo (but in the city of Ignaz Semmelweis and Ludwig Boltzmann.)
Central Freudian terminology such as “Traumentstellung” have a subtle ambiguity - this one more easily noted in French - but even further, the use of “Entstellung” in chemistry in Freud's day is not that of morgue notes: defaced, disfigured, distorted, Tatschen entstellen, Tatsachen verdrehen, Wirklichkeit entstellen, irren, Irma.
Freud: «Aus dem im Träume [Trauma] mitspielenden Gedankenkries [Benzinring] möchte ich nachträglich den Ausdruck für diese flüchtige Empfindung einsetzen [einstellen]. Es ist, als ob er mir gesagt hätte: Du nimmst deine ärztlichen» (my insertions in square brackets)
The page ends with Freud's essay Der Dichter und das Phantasieren.
In Freud's Traumdeutung text there are passages which must be read in the original in order to reflect Freud's own tendentious readings onto his own writings. The parallel with the Luther Bibel might seem mistaken: Freud's family did not originate in Catholic Vienna: they were Jews in Galicia, where the few Protestants were Augsburg Confession, Confessio Augustana. But Freud earnestly sought the Lutheran-minded Jung (Binswanger, for example, while Swiss, was from a Jewish family of Augsburg) as has often been noted. In the wider world, the Germans were Lutherans (see the struggle of the Lutheran convert Husserl in the Freiburg university and the long standing issue of Catholic influence intruding into Protestant "instances".)
In some ways you might see Freud's later "metapsychology" essays as his struggle to post his "theses". Sigismund Schlomo Freud certainly saw his psychoanalytic movement as comparable to that of a Moses or a Luther or a Galileo (but in the city of Ignaz Semmelweis and Ludwig Boltzmann.)
Central Freudian terminology such as “Traumentstellung” have a subtle ambiguity - this one more easily noted in French - but even further, the use of “Entstellung” in chemistry in Freud's day is not that of morgue notes: defaced, disfigured, distorted, Tatschen entstellen, Tatsachen verdrehen, Wirklichkeit entstellen, irren, Irma.
Freud: «Aus dem im Träume [Trauma] mitspielenden Gedankenkries [Benzinring] möchte ich nachträglich den Ausdruck für diese flüchtige Empfindung einsetzen [einstellen]. Es ist, als ob er mir gesagt hätte: Du nimmst deine ärztlichen» (my insertions in square brackets)
The page ends with Freud's essay Der Dichter und das Phantasieren.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Luther Bibel
I have put a complete Luther Bible in German at http://poets.aule-browser.com/lutherbibel.html
Why? Vexation. First that my university library had none (the German ! Department thought it belonged in the library of a religious college.) Something like having no Chaucer and no Shakespeare and no KJV for an English Department. Then, more recently, I found that the internet sources are all annoying and offered no simple text version.
This one is a straight HTML file, all 4+ Mb. The page comes with links to books at the top, but nothing more.
I will create a Curl version using Curl markup from www.curl.com - which will allow as much markup and annotation as I care to add.
Why in the 'poets' Aule? Because it stands to German poetry as do the above-mentioned to English poetry.
HTML Luther Bibel auf deutsch.
Why? Vexation. First that my university library had none (the German ! Department thought it belonged in the library of a religious college.) Something like having no Chaucer and no Shakespeare and no KJV for an English Department. Then, more recently, I found that the internet sources are all annoying and offered no simple text version.
This one is a straight HTML file, all 4+ Mb. The page comes with links to books at the top, but nothing more.
I will create a Curl version using Curl markup from www.curl.com - which will allow as much markup and annotation as I care to add.
Why in the 'poets' Aule? Because it stands to German poetry as do the above-mentioned to English poetry.
HTML Luther Bibel auf deutsch.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Albrecht Haushofer
At http://poets.aule-browser.com/haushofer-1.html I have added "Der Vater" by Albrecht Haushofer, a victim of the Gestapo in the last days of Nazi Berlin.
The poem is in my Curl poetry markup, but the text is not selectable as I have no copyright information for the version which I have available.
The page requires the Curl RTE browser plugin available at http://www.curl.com/download/rte
The poem is in my Curl poetry markup, but the text is not selectable as I have no copyright information for the version which I have available.
The page requires the Curl RTE browser plugin available at http://www.curl.com/download/rte
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Google+Yahoo+Bing = MicroData-by-committee
A google search for 'poem' or 'novel' at schema.org turns up nada.
Painting is there; sculpture is there; book is there; article is there. Poem is not.
But there is a provision for keywords as text. So law, speech, proof, precedent are all relegated to being keywords? As is that key term: peer-reviewed? We have advanced so far beyond Solon, Cicero, Priestley and Edmund Burke. A dialog of Plato, say, The Sophist, would now be tagged ... oh yes, I saw the BBC version so that is under TVSeries. Forget Sophocles. Drama and play are banished?
But Movie and TVEpisode and Recipe are at level 3. GovernmentOffice falls under LocalBusiness ? {a sibling of the latter is GovernmentOrganization.] And how Brits are going to grate their teeth on that American 'z'. GovtOrg was not an option?
Oddly missing is that key term: 'porn'. And 'art' is replaced by 'CreativeWork' so that kitsch can rub shoulders with Kandinsky, YouTube with Andrei Tarkovsky. The final leveling is a couch-potato hierarchy in which poetry is finally banished so that any and all can be labelled "poetic"?
Quantity is there; evaluation is not: tripe, drivel, true-but-trivial, disproven, canard, putative, alleged, hypothetical, unproven, disputed, well-confirmed, assumption, presupposition, axiom, non sequitur, proof, fallacy, tautology, insightful, perspicuous, prolix, pithy, ludicrous, ironic, unscientific, elegant, consistent, coherent ... pre-Darwinian, pre-DNA, pre-Newtonian, pre-Galilean, pre-Hubble, biblical, dogma, credo, cant.
Not to be alarmed: there is an extension mechanism. But surely this first pass at tagging for the triumvirate is a comment on the geeks of America and their managers.
Painting is there; sculpture is there; book is there; article is there. Poem is not.
But there is a provision for keywords as text. So law, speech, proof, precedent are all relegated to being keywords? As is that key term: peer-reviewed? We have advanced so far beyond Solon, Cicero, Priestley and Edmund Burke. A dialog of Plato, say, The Sophist, would now be tagged ... oh yes, I saw the BBC version so that is under TVSeries. Forget Sophocles. Drama and play are banished?
But Movie and TVEpisode and Recipe are at level 3. GovernmentOffice falls under LocalBusiness ? {a sibling of the latter is GovernmentOrganization.] And how Brits are going to grate their teeth on that American 'z'. GovtOrg was not an option?
Oddly missing is that key term: 'porn'. And 'art' is replaced by 'CreativeWork' so that kitsch can rub shoulders with Kandinsky, YouTube with Andrei Tarkovsky. The final leveling is a couch-potato hierarchy in which poetry is finally banished so that any and all can be labelled "poetic"?
Quantity is there; evaluation is not: tripe, drivel, true-but-trivial, disproven, canard, putative, alleged, hypothetical, unproven, disputed, well-confirmed, assumption, presupposition, axiom, non sequitur, proof, fallacy, tautology, insightful, perspicuous, prolix, pithy, ludicrous, ironic, unscientific, elegant, consistent, coherent ... pre-Darwinian, pre-DNA, pre-Newtonian, pre-Galilean, pre-Hubble, biblical, dogma, credo, cant.
Not to be alarmed: there is an extension mechanism. But surely this first pass at tagging for the triumvirate is a comment on the geeks of America and their managers.
Bavarian Gentians
There is now a web page with simple Curl markup of D.H. Lawrence's Bavarian Gentians at poets.aule-browser.com which is built from a text-to-Curl tool.
In this case the markup uses the default {paragraph } text-procedure and the markup has no semantics particular to an English poem from the twentieth century. Each paragraph is a Visual object and can be assigned a name property.
The text of the poem is not selectable in this version of the page. In a study version the word "Dys" would be clickable as might several others. Initially the page might be up 3 minutes before any links or button appear, especially if displayed in a teaching browser for students with no BACK button.
The button for the image and the links were added manually.
In this case the markup uses the default {paragraph } text-procedure and the markup has no semantics particular to an English poem from the twentieth century. Each paragraph is a Visual object and can be assigned a name property.
The text of the poem is not selectable in this version of the page. In a study version the word "Dys" would be clickable as might several others. Initially the page might be up 3 minutes before any links or button appear, especially if displayed in a teaching browser for students with no BACK button.
The button for the image and the links were added manually.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Poem continues
A lovely German poetry volume has a font glyph which indicates that a poem on a facing or recto page continues on the next, back or verso page: the character resembles // but I do not find one in the Ogham Unicode 6.0 page or the like. It seems to be more of an issue in bilingual books with the source language on verso and the translations on recto pages such that both pages may benefit from a continuation character. Judging from what I.A. Richards wrote about when a poem knows that it is done, the reader may deserve the same. This is clearly more of an issue in e-book formats.
I do see some lovely Unicode points for the glyphs in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.
Some poetry is set with a centered asterisk between sections. I recall having seen a variety of barred lines and curved-lines for poem separations or endings.
A very simple macro in Curl would allow you to choose what to place within a poem immediately prior to where a page break has been placed.
One user-controlled optional presentation feature in Curl web content line-numbering could be
50 / 150 (at verso last line)
100 / 150 (at recto last line)
which might alert a reader (but perhaps not well-advised for some epic poems.)
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