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2. 簡易的示範

用一則小小的例子來表現，當一篇文章，被一個略懂標誌的人鍵入電腦時，會發生什麼事，或展現電子文件具有何種潛力。在理想的狀態下，這樣的成果或許要由非常精確的光學掃瞄器來呈現。如何透過保持換行、記錄頁邊來表現原文件的頁眉標題及換行的版式等，諸如此類的資訊，企圖忠實於印刷物的樣貌。而無法表現的字形（例如長引號或faall裡的重音節符號），則傾向以模擬的方式來表現。

                    CHAPTER 38

  READER, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the par-
  son and clerk, were alone present. When we got back from church, I
  went into the kitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking
  the dinner, and John cleaning the knives, and I said --
  'Mary, I have been married to Mr Rochester this morning.' The
  housekeeper and her husband were of that decent, phlegmatic
  order of people, to whom one may at any time safely communicate a
  remarkable piece of news without incurring the danger of having
  one's ears pierced by some shrill ejaculation and subsequently stunned
  by a torrent of wordy wonderment. Mary did look up, and she did
  stare at me; the ladle with which she was basting a pair of chickens
  roasting at the fire, did for some three minutes hang suspended in air,
  and for the same space of time John's knives also had rest from the
  polishing process; but Mary, bending again over the roast, said only --
  'Have you, miss? Well, for sure!'
  A short time after she pursued, 'I seed you go out with the master,
  but I didn't know you were gone to church to be wed'; and she
  basted away. John, when I turned to him, was grinning from ear to
  ear.
  'I telled Mary how it would be,' he said: 'I knew what Mr Ed-
  ward' (John was an old servant, and had known his master when he
  was the cadet of the house, therefore he often gave him his Christian
  name) -- 'I knew what Mr Edward would do; and I was certain he
  would not wait long either: and he's done right, for aught I know. I
  wish you joy, miss!' and he politely pulled his forelock.
  'Thank you, John. Mr Rochester told me to give you and Mary
  this.'
  I put into his hand a five-pound note. Without waiting to hear
  more, I left the kitchen. In passing the door of that sanctum some time
  after, I caught the words --
  'She'll happen do better for him nor ony o' t' grand ladies.' And
  again, 'If she ben't one o' th' handsomest, she's noan faa\l, and varry
  good-natured; and i' his een she's fair beautiful, onybody may see
  that.'
  I wrote to Moor House and to Cambridge immediately, to say what
  I had done: fully explaining also why I had thus acted. Diana and

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 474

                          JANE EYRE           475

　Mary approved the step unreservedly. Diana announced that she
  would just give me time to get over the honeymoon, and then she
  would come and see me.
  'She had better not wait till then, Jane,' said Mr Rochester, when I
  read her letter to him; 'if she does, she will be too late, for our honey-
  moon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your
  grave or mine.'
  How St John received the news I don't know: he never answered
  the letter in which I communicated it: yet six months after he wrote
  to me, without, however, mentioning Mr Rochester's name or allud-
  ing to my marriage. His letter was then calm, and though very serious,
  kind. He has maintained a regular, though not very frequent correspond-
  ence ever since: he hopes I am happy, and trusts I am not of those who
  live without God in the world, and only mind earthly
  things.

以上的轉錄因下列幾項難處而困擾：

• 頁碼與逐頁標題夾雜在正文中間，造成軟體辨識困難。
• 單引號與道白句間沒有區別，難以確知哪些敘述是口語句。
• 保留連字符號的使用，簡單的搜尋軟體無法檢索到被切割的字。
• 長引號以及faal中的重音節字以特殊的樣式鍵入，但未循任何標準的模式，且僅有在轉錄者在文獻中提及這些樣式時，文件才能被正確的處理。
• 分段僅以空白鍵標誌，而且每一行必須以換行符號來表示分行。因此，如果印刷字型的大小改變，會造成重排的困擾。

以下將展示以TEI指引來為同樣的篇章編碼。雖然我們發現這份文件可以使用各種不同的方式來編碼，但是，以TEI來處理，最少容許表現下列的不同之處：

• 段落的區分明確而清楚地標示。
• 道白句與引用符號得以區分。
• 重音字母與長破折號使用實體參考。
• 頁碼的區塊以空的元素<pb>獨立標誌。

為了簡化搜尋及處理，不保留原文的分行，文字因排版偶爾遇到的行尾切字，直接重組。若有人對原文的分行感興趣，雖然本範例並未提供，但是要保留也很容易。

為了便於校讀，每段都重起一行，但取消縮排。

<pb n='474'/>
  <div1 type="chapter" n='38'>
  
  <p>Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I,
  the parson and clerk, were alone present. When we got back
  from church, I went into the kitchen of the manor-house,
  where Mary was cooking the dinner, and John cleaning the
  knives, and I said &mdash;</p>
  
  <p><q>Mary, I have been married to Mr Rochester this
  morning.</q> The housekeeper and her husband were of that
  decent, phlegmatic order of people, to whom one may at any
  time safely communicate a remarkable piece of news without
  incurring the danger of having one's ears pierced by some
  shrill ejaculation and subsequently stunned by a torrent of
  wordy wonderment. Mary did look up, and she did stare at
  me; the ladle with which she was basting a pair of chickens
  roasting at the fire, did for some three minutes hang
  suspended in air, and for the same space of time John's
  knives also had rest from the polishing process; but Mary,
  bending again over the roast, said only &mdash;</p>
  
  <p><q>Have you, miss? Well, for sure!</q></p>
  
  <p>A short time after she pursued, <q>I seed you go out with
  the master, but I didn't know you were gone to church to be
  wed</q>; and she basted away. John, when I turned to him,
  was grinning from ear to ear. <q>I telled Mary how it would
  be,</q> he said: <q>I knew what Mr Edward</q> (John was an
  old servant, and had known his master when he was the cadet
  of the house, therefore he often gave him his Christian
  name) &mdash; <q>I knew what Mr Edward would do; and I was
  certain he would not wait long either: and he's done right,
  for aught I know. I wish you joy, miss!</q> and he politely
  pulled his forelock.</p>
  
  <p><q>Thank you, John. Mr Rochester told me to give you and
  Mary this.</q></p>
  
  <p>I put into his hand a five-pound note. Without waiting
  to hear more, I left the kitchen. In passing the door of
  that sanctum some time after, I caught the words &mdash;</p>
  
  <p><q>She'll happen do better for him nor ony o' t' grand
  ladies.</q> And again, <q>If she ben't one o' th'
  handsomest, she's noan fa&agrave;l, and varry good-natured;
  and i' his een she's fair beautiful, onybody may see
  that.</q></p>
  
  <p>I wrote to Moor House and to Cambridge immediately, to
  say what I had done: fully explaining also why I had thus
  acted. Diana and <pb n='475'/> Mary approved the step
  unreservedly. Diana announced that she would just give me
  time to get over the honeymoon, and then she would come and
  see me.</p>
  
  <p><q>She had better not wait till then, Jane,</q> said Mr
  Rochester, when I read her letter to him; <q>if she does,
  she will be too late, for our honeymoon will shine our life
  long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.</q></p>
  
  <p>How St John received the news I don't know: he never
  answered the letter in which I communicated it: yet six
  months after he wrote to me, without, however, mentioning Mr
  Rochester's name or alluding to my marriage. His letter was
  then calm, and though very serious, kind. He has maintained
  a regular, though not very frequent correspondence ever
  since: he hopes I am happy, and trusts I am not of those who
  live without God in the world, and only mind earthly things.</p>

將焦點放在勃朗蒂的文字，而非特定印刷版本上，在基本的編碼議題中，這是其中一個面向：選擇性。只有在文本的特徵對編碼者具有重要性時，編碼才具有明確性。要在這小小的篇章中找到立即可以表現的編碼方式並不難。例如：

• 可提供方言使用的規則。
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