AM 6. Setup for Success

Things to consider:

This is a dynamic process

• When a project is brand new, there aren't many settings that can be fixed.
• As the project matures, some of the inventories start to make sense.

Who is working on the project

• Set up users, roles, and permissions
• Would it be useful to have a ‘simplified menu’?

Do you need to customise the settings?

• custom.sty
• change the style sheet settings
• the names of markers (in other languages)
• the colour to help identify features?
• custom.vrs
• identify verses that are different from the default versification

What spelling will be used?

• Place the spelling letters in the language settings.
• (Remember that what you put in the language settings could go into the ‘Speech and Language Data Repository’.)

How will characters be entered?

• Keyman/MSKLC (Keyman is free!)
• AutoCorrect.txt

Which quotation system will be used?

• Define quotation rules [Dynamic]
• Think about your rules
• Test what you have chosen
• Adjust rules
• Make corrections to rules/text if necessary

When you have text data

• Start with inventories
• Start at the beginning [characters]
• Look for options in the inventories!
• Is the element valid all the time? Or just in certain situations?

Biblical reference settings

• Which book names do you use?
• What is the format of a reference?
• Where to place the origin of notes? [First, last...]