About the Editor
Glycerine Aksara Editor is where an edition of a Gāndhārī manuscript is made. You outline each akṣara on the manuscript image, say which graphemes it is written with, group those akṣaras into words, and arrange the words into the structure of the text. What comes out the other end is what readers see in the Viewer.
Unlike the Viewer, the Editor requires an account, and everything you create belongs to you until you choose to publish it.
What you work on
The Editor holds five kinds of thing, each built out of the one before it:
| What it is | |
|---|---|
| Text | A manuscript — its CKM identifier, its title, and its images |
| Edition | One scholar's reading of that text. A text can carry several |
| Akṣara | One written sign, outlined on the image and spelled as a sequence of graphemes |
| Token | A word: a run of graphemes drawn from one or more akṣaras, with a lemma and inflection |
| Sequence | An editorial unit — a section, a verse — built from tokens, carrying translation and chāyā |
The chain matters. Tokens are made from akṣaras, and sequences from tokens, so the order of work is fixed: outline before you lemmatise, lemmatise before you structure. See How an Edition Is Built.
What is shared and what is yours
Most of what you make is private to you and to the edition you made it in. Two things are not:
- The grapheme catalogue and the vocabularies for clarity, obscuration, text-critical marks, and grammar are fixed reference data, the same for everyone.
- Lemmas start private but can be promoted. A lemma you create is yours alone until you submit it for review; if an administrator approves it, it becomes canonical — available to every user, and no longer editable by you. See Lemmas.
Where to start
- New to the Editor: Signing In, then The Workspace at a Glance.
- Starting a new manuscript: Texts → Images → Editions.
- Ready to transcribe: How an Edition Is Built.