diff --git a/crates/citefind/README.md b/crates/citefind/README.md index 6f62abc..96a923c 100644 --- a/crates/citefind/README.md +++ b/crates/citefind/README.md @@ -223,6 +223,23 @@ topic is not an author and `Buss, 1989` is not a work, so it is flagged **Take a translator's note for a reference.** An em dash and a role at the end — `— Ed.`, `— Tr.` — is how a translator signs a note of their own. +**Take a note's own remark for a work.** `The Commentator seems to have +based himself principally on the Bible` and `Dewey remarks that we experience +most things as temporal` are what a page of endnotes is mostly made of. A +title read off markup is taken at its word; a title guessed at by cutting the +entry at its sentence stops is not, and where the entry gave up nothing else +— no author, no identifier, no container — that guess has to be a noun +phrase. A finite verb is what separates the remark from `Quaestiones +Parisienses`. + +**Take a siglum for a work.** `H, 272`, `FR,120-122`, `GNO`. The key that +expands the abbreviation is a page of its own that the entry does not carry, +and the heading the line sits under is not its title either. + +**Take the reader's furniture for a reference.** `572 next page > < previous +page`, and the `file:///` path it points at, are what a PDF reader left in +the text. + **Take chapter and verse for a work.** `Matthew 4:17` and `Cf. Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Isaiah 53` are scripture references, which is most of what the notes of a theological book are. So is `PG 4: 264` — Migne, and CSEL, NPNF,