IT IS POSSIBLE TO USE DROPCAPS, but if you do, please indicate that you have done so in correspondence with the person who is making the html-formatted document. The change in size is not brought through in pasting from MS Word to html directly, and in each instance the drop cap function must be reformatted.

[15] When a paragraph begins on page fifteen, it should be marked in this way.

In the course of text, page breaks should be indicated as follows at the place where page 15 ends [15/16] and page 16 begins.

Please do not use bold text unless the actual text of the document appears in boldface.

Please use italics only when the actual text of the original document uses italics.

In lieu of endashes and emdashes, please use two hyphens--in this way, we can avoid coding problems that may result in users being unable to view a document as you intended it to look.

In general, please do not correct spelling mistakes or cases in which modern spelling disagrees with spelling in the original document. If there is an errata sheet or page in the actual text being transcribed, please feel free to incorporate these changes if possible. They generally represent the authorial intention for correct words and spelling.

PLEASE DO NOT substitute your own national spelling for the spelling of the original document. The modern and differing spelling systems of Canada, England, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc., cannot be applied retroactively to out-of-print documents.

If text is centered, please present it in that way in your transcription.

Default body text should be left-justified. Right-justification causes significant problems, as it sometimes creates a situation in which individual web-users must scroll right and left to see the full extent of the document's width. Up-and-down scrolling already occupies the online reader, and left-justification ensures that this extra effort is not necessary.

Please write fractions as 1/2 or 3/4, etc., rather than in their word-processing formatted equivalents. This does not come through well in html.

Do not use two spaces between sentences. One space is the standard for online text.

Please submit ordinal combinations--1st, 2nd, 3rd--as typed text, rather than as numerals with superscripts.

When there are footnotes in text and it is convenient to do so, please place them in brackets at the place of reference. If this is not possible because of the disruption it causes in the narrative, please make an alphabetical or numeric reference at the place in question, [1] and create a separate section for notes at the end of your document. If the text is to be presented online in Adobe Acrobat format [PDF], please feel free to use the standard Insert ... Reference ... Footnote function in MS Word.

Greek text presents a particularly thorny problem, as fonts must be installed on the computer of the individual online reader as well as coded in our document. The safest method right now, with the most universal readability, is to present the text in MS Word's Symbol font, available in several other word processing programs and operating systems. Pathr hmwn o en toiV ouranoiV is an example of text formatted in the Symbol font. Unfortunately, this does not bring over breathings and accentuation.

Many nineteenth- and early twentieth-century documents present a space before marks of punctuation : ; ? : ! Please omit this space so that words are followed directly by punctuation!

Please do not use tabs or indentation. They do not come over in pasting text from MS Word into html, and it can be difficult to re-format them. If there are tables that would be most easily presented as scanned images, please confer with the site coordinator to determine the best way to incorporate them in text.

If you have scanned text, please proofread it carefully and run spellcheck at least once before forwarding it to the site coordinator. Common mistakes include the following:

Cod for God

arc for are

arid for and

car for ear, ear for car

coining for coming

sonic for some

tile for the

shittings for shillings

1 for I

/ for I, especially where italics are used

a11 for all

arn for am

yam for yarn, yarn for yam

tliem for them

while for white, white for while

If you have scanned a text that uses typographical ligatures for combinations fl, fi, ct, ffi, ffl, etc., or an elongated lower-case S, please be careful to look for these characters in your text.

Many accented characters come through smoothly: à á ä â ì í î ï ù ú û ü è ë ê é ø ó ò ö ô ñ ß ÿ å and their majuscule equivalents are generally not a problem. The £ sign with two bars does not generally come through. Please use the £ sign with one bar.

Please forward transcriptions only in MS Word format. If you are unable to forward text in MS Word format, please contact the site coordinator to find out if he will be able to open the file you propose to send.

Please set your word processor to "omit optional hyphens."

In this way, even if a text breaks at the end of a line
before a word ends, no super-
fluous hyphen will be incor-
porated in the resulting online text.

The passage should of course read

In this way, even if a text breaks at the end of a line before a word ends, no superfluous hyphen will be incorporated in the resulting online text.

If you retain optional hyphens, it will look like this:

In this way, even if a text breaks at the end of a line before a word ends, no super-fluous hyphen will be incor-porated in the resulting online text.

If you are incorporating a numbered or alphabetical list in your transcription, please do not rely on your word-processor's automatic formatting.

1. In each case,
2. Please type the number of the item in the list
3. So that it will come through as part of the text.

If your transcription is of a text that has accompanying images, please do not embed these images in the word processing document. Name them clearly and attach them separately when submitting the text to the site coordinator.

Please do not use MS Word to format the text as html.

Please be careful to do no damage to the original document during the course of your transcription. In the case of photocopied books, when it is possible please use a binder-minder screen so as to avoid breaking bindings.

Unless where absolutely necessary to convey the formatting of the original document, please submit transcriptions in Times New Roman 12 point font.

[1] This is an example of a footnote referenced above.

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