#manchu

📜Reproducing the Vertical-Layout Page of Cing gisun-i Lao Kida with TEI/XML and XSLT — Encoding Manchu Script, Hangul Phonetic Gloss, and Warigaki Translation

Taking the first folio of Cing gisun-i Lao Kida (volume 1, fol. 1a) — a Joseon-era Manchu language primer — I encoded the page in TEI/XML using only standard elements and reproduced its vertical layout (Manchu script + Hangul phonetic gloss + warigaki Korean translation) with XSLT 1.0 generating HTML + SVG. This post records the design decision to separate data from visualization, the column-splitting trick in XSLT 1.0, the SVG-based rendering of Manchu script, and the three-panel comparison view (facsimile / XML / HTML).