Concepts
The Homer Multitext project has assembled a rich collection of images and data about manuscripts of the Iliad with scholia, including digital editions of many texts. Texts in the archive are encoded in TEI XML format.
The motivation for the HmtGutenberg package is to make diplomatic versions of the texts available in formats that humans can read. It uses the HmtArchive package to extract diplomatic editions from the archive, and organizes Iliad and scholia texts by physical page of the manuscript.
HmtGutenberg supports editions with or without Markdown formatting, so that its output can be readily used digitally as a plain-text file, or can be printed or read on screen in a formatted display using any markdown-aware application.
See the Julia HmtArchive packge to work directly with data in the project’s published releases.