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Hades spelling convention #150

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helmadik opened this issue Apr 24, 2023 · 1 comment
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Hades spelling convention #150

helmadik opened this issue Apr 24, 2023 · 1 comment

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@helmadik
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Hi there!
Since I see mention of verified spellings in this package, perhaps a long shot here: I always find myself correcting forms of Hades in the Greek OCR-ed texts. Greek long alpha followed by iota would be ᾳ in lower case, but the conventional spelling in upper case has a tiny adscript next to the capital. Check out the number of characters in this spelling: ᾍδης (4) vs what's typically found in the Open Greek and Perseus OCR files: Ἅιδης (5). If this were a real adscript following a short alpha, the diacritics would be on the iota.. (and we would call him Haedes:-))
My morphological analyzer catches these, but it would be great to correct it at the source. Many thanks!

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Similarly, I'm seeing quite a few ἢδη and ἣκω. Prob. depends on people's choice of font etc. how easy this is to catch in corrections. Finally, I've added a standard check for ς[;·] - punctuation often an OCR artefact following final sigma. [I should mention I have been working on older output -Lucian, Plutarch - so this may all be fixed by now!]

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