Create ability to read, search, and filter Latin texts

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Overview

Similar to how www.thelatinlibrary.com allows a user to view complete Latin texts, I'd like to allow a user to read full Latin texts on Janiculum. The ultimate goal is to present the toolkit to them alongside the text, so it's easy for a user to flip back and forth being searching the dictionary and reading the text. Ultimately, a user will also be able to leave notes keyed to specific lines of Latin text.

Requirements

Well-formatted XML for Latin texts is available under CC BY-SA license at the Perseus GitHub repo. Add these to the lib directory.

Create a new table authors with an entry for each Latin author. Columns: name, name_display.

Create a new table texts with an entry for each text. A rough stab at columns might be: author_id, title, path.

Create a separate page for each author and a UI that allows a user to select from a dropdown the text and relevant text searching information (book number, line number, etc.).

At present, I think we can just load the full XML of a specific text on the page (say, Ovid's Metamorphoses). Ovid's Metamorphoses, as an example, totals about 900kb of XML data. Compressed and gzipped, that shouldn't be a problem at all to pass to the browser. Once the full text is in the browser, we can create a filtering and searching mechanism that allows a user to easily display only a specific portion of the text.