Accumulated Wisdom
Encoding
<ADD>
Mistaken use of ADD tags in LETTERs ;
Use of ADD tags for typewritten material ;
ADD with handwritten material ;
ADD in CLOSERs ;
<CLOSER>
Addressee in CLOSER ;
Notary signatures ;
Use of POSTSCRIPT ;
Problem CLOSERs ;
Signatures tagged as SALUTE ;
DATELINE tagged as SIGNED ;
Correctly tagged CLOSER with DATELINE ;
CLOSER or TRAILER? ;
CLOSER, SIGNED, for "quoth x" ;
Unusual CLOSERs in LETTERs ;
DATELINE or SIGNED for descriptions of person or place? ;
"directions" after CLOSER in letters ;
DIV types
EEBO DIV TYPEs ; ECCO DIV TYPEs ;
DIV TYPE="list of authors" ;
DIV type for lists of Scripture references ;
DIV TYPE="envoy" (1) ;
DIV TYPE="register" ;
DIV type for quoted remarks ;
DIV type for kings ;
DIV TYPE="corroboration" ;
Q at the end of DIV; envoy (2) ;
DIV TYPE="imprimatur" ;
DIV TYPE="title" ;
DIV TYPE="publisher's advertisement" ;
DIV TYPE="testimonial" ;
DIV TYPE="approbation" ;
DIV TYPE="envoy" (3) ;
DIV TYPE="docket title" ;
DIV TYPE="attestation" ;
DIV TYPE="advertisement" etc ;
DIV TYPE="mittimus" etc ;
DIV TYPE="versions" ;
DIV TYPE="index" vs DIV TYPE="table of contents" ;
DIV TYPE or N?
Drama
Placement of STAGE directions ;
Use of STAGE for heads of speeches ;
Use of drama tags in other types of material ;
Use of STAGE for heads of speeches ;
"spoken by" as STAGE or OPENER ;
"spoken by" in STAGE not BYLINE ;
STAGE used in non-drama ;
STAGE used in musical texts ;
"enter chorus" as STAGE and SPEAKER ;
use of Q within dialogues and plays ;
STAGE in musical texts? <FIGURE>
Captions functioning as HEADs ;
Uncaptured material in captions ;
FIGURE before HEAD ;
Tags allowed in FIGURE ;
Two related thoughts on FIGUREs ;
Placing FIGURE inside HEAD . ;
Multiple PBs in fold-out maps ;
FIGURE appearing at the end of textFIGURE before HEAD ?Porphyry's tree diagram ;
TRAILER type="illustration"Use of FIGURE for title page borders? ;
Scheme attribute of FIGDESC ;
Capturing printers' devices ;
Guide letters in rubrication ;
Sample tagging of frontispiece with FIGURE, FIGDESC, and BYLINE ;
<GAP>
Correcting illegibles ;
"Intruder" GAP s ;
Missing material of less than a page ;
Another intruder GAP ;
"Blank" GAP s ;
Mdash or blank gap? ;
Material omitted in print ;
<HEAD>
Half titles captured as HEAD s ;
"The text" appearing before an EPIGRAPH ;
ARGUMENT in HEAD ;
<LETTER>
Marginal quotes ;
Letters broken by comments ;
Complex openings in LETTER s ;
Superscription in LETTER ;
<LG>
Acrostic poems ;
Songs in drama ;
LGs with indented text ;
Obsolete type attributes for LGs ;
Nested LGs for songs in drama ;
Short or Long Verse Lines? ;
Verse numbers in metrical psalms ;
Lines entirely in HI ;
Short or long lines? (3) ;
<LIST>
TRAILERS in LISTs ;
Complex nested LISTs ;
Simplifying an index ;
Simplifying LISTs with nesting ;
Simplifying LISTs with LABEL and ITEM ;
More on LABEL and ITEM ;
LISTs with just one ITEM ;
Syllogisms ;
ROLE="label" attribute for LABEL and ITEM ;
LISTs with curly braces ;
Syllables alongside syllogisms ;
Nested LIST s used for genealogies ;
Options for table of contents tagging ;
LIST type="sum"Mixture of LIST s and verse ;
Music
ij ;
Hyphenated words in music ;
Vocal parts in music ;
Musical part book ;
<NOTE>
Endnotes ;
Multiple NOTE sets ;
Interlinear NOTEs ;
Endnotes and markers in the text ;
Index fingers tagged as MILESTONE ;
UNIT values in MILESTONE s ;
LETTERs broken by commentsLinking Endnotes ;
Difference between REF and PTR ;
Automatically moving NOTE s next to markers ;
Endnote or marginal note? ;
Correct use of endnotes ;
Strung out marginal notes ;
<OPENER>
Tagging "to the tune of" ;
OPENER and CLOSER as holdalls ;
DATELINE without DATE ;
Complex OPENER s in songs ;
"To the honour of God" as OPENER ;
Complex opening to dedication ;
Where to split HEADs and OPENERs ;
DIV TYPE="ballad"; more on HEADs and OPENERs in songs ;
<Q>
Q versus HI REND="marginal quotes" ;
startq; and endq; to mark dialogue ;
when to use HI REND="marginal quotes" ;
one-off dilemma ;
Q and BIBL within HEAD ;
Two Ps within one Q, or two Qs? ;
authorial interjections in quotations" ;
Use of Q and BIBL in HEAD (2) ;
Q or TRAILER at the end of chaptersUse BIBL where there are no Q tags? ;
Thus far in BIBL ;
Structure
Replacing BODY with GROUP ;
Wrong PB numbers <TABLE>
Parallel text or TABLE ? ;
Use of TABLE s for paired quotations ;
TABLE tagging: rowspansPoint-by-point structure in parallel text ;
Title Pages
Extra title page known as a "cancel" ;
Engraved or handwritten title pages ;
Transcription
Abbreviations and Ligatures
Esq; ;
Ambiguious ae/oe forms ;
German eszett/ss/tz ;
Barred q symbol meaning "qui" or "quam"? ;
More on barred q ;
E hook, eogon, and ae ligature ;
G with an abbreviation stroke ;
Caxton's barred double-l ;
Abbreviations for Christ ;
Removing ABBR round barred double-l ;
Abbreviation for "qui" ;
Caxton's "d-flourish" ;
Abbreviation for "quartern(e)" ;
Fonts
Anglo-Saxon mistranscribed ;
Dealing with Gaelic/Irish fonts ;
Anglo-Saxon P and wyn ;
z/yogh; p/thorn ;
Scottish yogh and sz ;
Foreign alphabets
Greek symbol made up of o and u ;
Standardization of Hebrew character entities ;
Breathings in Greek ;
Problems with capturing Greek ;
Breathings in Greek (2) ;
Miscellaneous
Where to find the latest charent file ;
Blocks of upside down characters ;
Upper-case Z in the middle of words ;
Whitespace capture ;
Punctuation
Half slashes captured as commas ;
Use of &punc; within a word ;
Full stops in the shape of crosses ;
Space between elided article and noun in French ;
Mdash or blank gap? ;
ct ligature for ampersands ;
End-of-line hyphens
Unresolved Queries
Unresolved query ;
Another query ;
Symbols
Handwritten Symbols ;
Jupiter v. Recipe ;
Date symbols ;
Stand-alone symbols ;
X as denarius ;
Infinity symbol ;
Squares and Quadrines ;
Use of generic and specific cross entity references ;
Rotated index fingers ;
Reversed section symbol ;
Rx symbol ;
Fractions ;
Note-markers ;
Technical
DTD and image sets Other
Notes, milestones and markers
Notes and Milestones Note markers;
Note placement;
Handling endnotes.;
STAGE and NOTE combined;
Use of MILESTONE unit attribute;
MILESTONEs with illegible values;
Multiple notes with a single reference
Captions, Headings, and Quotations Captions in figures;
ARGUMENTS in verse;
Quotations on title pages;
Authorial interjections in quotations;
Changing &startq; into <Q> and <HI>;
<Q>s broken by <P>s.
Q+BIBL inside HEAD.
Q+BIBL inside TRAILER.
Using running header for division header.
Placement of epigraphs. Letters
New tag: POSTSCRIPT;
DIV versus LETTER;
SALUTE and SIGNED;
Use of DATELINE and DATE (DATELINE and SIGNED,
DATELINE without DATE,
Including dating system within DATE);
Sample CLOSERs with problems;
Correct sample CLOSERs and SIGNEDs;
Lists of signatories. Lists
Lists with curly braces;
Genealogies as lists;
Tables of Contents and Indexes as lists;
Changes to the model of LIST;
Syllogisms as lists
Miscellaneous
Matters philosophical
Correcting illegibilities;
Counting in/excusable errors;
Purpose of DIV types;
Printer's errors.
Matters miscellaneous
Superscripts, including superscript o;
Clarifying UNCLEAR;
Long or short lines in verse;
Abbreviations and abbreviation entities;
Tagging "Explicit"s;
editing TABLEs;
Acrostic poem;
"Spoken by..." in plays;
letters for rubricator.