samori

A repo for a Digital Edition of Amadu Kurubari's "History of Samori Toure" from Delafosse's 1901 Jula Grammar (see this blog post for more context).

To Do

• Write scripts to automatically manipulate and change the original OCR text into a critical markdown format

  • Remove the page headers and page numbers and make them into markdown headers
  • Extract footnotes from prose
  • Clean up and match the semi-automated footnote markers and text.

• Figure out auto-replacements for the modern version of the text

  • <yè> for yɛ
  • for intervocalic g
  • for ani 'and'
  • <-ru> for plural
  • <kù-tigi> for kuntigi
  • for siya 'many'
  • for ele
  • for n f
  • for fò
  • for j
  • as part of siyaman (It can be sya-ma or sya-mà etc.)
  • for c
  • for ɲ
  • <lô> for lɔ́n
  • <kyè> for cɛ
  • <-ra> for ???

History of OCR clean up

• Started with the ocr.txt file.
• Separated the French language introduction (intro.txt) from the text proper (text.md)
• Added markdown page number headers (e.g., ### 149) using the script pages.py
• Removed original document headers and page numbers that were caught in the text (semi-manually using search and replace in an editor)
• Partially automated the conversion of Delafosse's footnotes into markdown footnotes using footnotes.py