Magic Manuscript Maker Typesetting Software

The Magic Manuscript Maker (Link) is a collection of open-source tools and scripts that help to automate the typesetting process of academic articles. The workflow is designed to be used in a Docker container and currently used by the Philosophy and the Mind Sciences journal. The individual tools are channeled through a web application called the "Magic Manuscript Maker", which allows to create user profiles and projects. However, the individual tools can also be used independently. The MMM was mainly developed in Python.

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Tafsir Web Corpus

Developed within the A01 project in the CRC 1475 "Metaphors of Religion" (Link), the Tafsir Web Corpus brings together one of the most extensive curated digital collections of Qurʾanic exegesis available today. It comprises: (1) 80 Arabic Tafsir works digitized and originally published by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute on Altafsir.com, the Qurʾan in TEI-XML (Corpus Coranicum), and Jalal al-Din Rumi’s Persian Masnavi, also in TEI-XML (see also the official corpus description). The web application allows to annotate metadata, download and filter specific text bundles, comment and discuss texts, and much more. It was developed using Svelte/JavaScript and Go.

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Text Reuse Application

The Text Reuse Detection application was also developed within the A01 project in the CRC 1475 "Metaphors of Religion" (Link). Build on passim, this application helps the project team to analyze, visualize, comment, and annotate text reuse clusters found with passim. The application is currently only internally used and was developed using Svelte/JavaScript.

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