Sigla Abbreviation Stop Mark Position Checker (mid-dot)
Check middle-dot (interpunct U+00B7) stop marks in name tokens of an inscription, counting their occurrences and flagging any token with a leading or trailing dot as malformed sigla punctuation.
Description
Check middle-dot (interpunct U+00B7) stop marks in name tokens of an inscription, counting their occurrences and flagging any token with a leading or trailing dot as malformed sigla punctuation.
Sigla Abbreviation Stop Mark Position Checker (mid-dot): Check middle-dot (interpunct U+00B7) stop marks in name tokens of an inscription, counting their occurrences and flagging any token with a leading or trailing dot as malformed sigla punctuation.
When to use Sigla Abbreviation Stop Mark Position Checker (mid-dot)
Use this epigraphic utility to apply a stated parsing, transcription, measurement, dating, classification, or documentation rule consistently while preparing inscriptions for scholarly review.
- Text
- Inscription text; whitespace-separated name tokens.
How Sigla Abbreviation Stop Mark Position Checker (mid-dot) works
Check middle-dot (interpunct U+00B7) stop marks in name tokens of an inscription, counting their occurrences and flagging any token with a leading or trailing dot as malformed sigla punctuation. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.1
- Tokens
- Number of tokens examined.
- Dotted tokens
- Tokens containing at least one interpunct.
- Interpuncts
- Total interpunct characters found.
- Invalid tokens
- Tokens with leading or trailing dots.
- All valid
- True when no token has a misplaced dot.
Limitations and assumptions
- Leiden notation is an editorial representation, and projects use extensions or differing policies. Balanced marks do not prove that a restoration or reading is correct; validation must preserve nesting, uncertainty, line structure, and the project's declared profile.
- Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.
Alternative or Complementary approaches
Retain the photograph, squeeze or scan, diplomatic transcription, provenance, dimensions, uncertainty marks, and corpus identifiers with the result. Confirm ambiguous cases against the relevant corpus, Leiden conventions, parallel inscriptions, and specialist judgment.
References
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Leiden Conventions — Wikipedia contributors
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