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 ???

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