MRP: Style Sheet One
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Style Sheet One
Editorial History
14/05/12, CSG: Created page
Contents
- 1 Suggested links
- 2 To do
- 3 Style Sheet details
- 3.1 Abbreviations
- 3.2 Blotting out
- 3.3 Capitalisation
- 3.4 Colons
- 3.5 Commas
- 3.6 Crossing out
- 3.7 Dashes
- 3.8 Dots
- 3.9 Full stops
- 3.10 Handwriting
- 3.11 Headlines or headers
- 3.12 Line length & line runover
- 3.13 Marginalia
- 3.14 Numerals
- 3.15 Page layout
- 3.16 Paragraphs
- 3.17 Punctuation
- 3.18 Semi-colons
- 3.19 Signatures (and marks, if illiterate)
- 3.20 Text size
Suggested links
See Synthesis
See Transcription
See Admiralty court cases
See HCA 13/68
To do
(1) Make digital images of examples and paste into Style Sheet One
Style Sheet details
Abbreviations
- Meaning of abbreviations
- Representing abbreviations
- Use of superscript lines
Blotting out
- Use of blotting out in primary text
- Representing blotting out in transcription
Capitalisation
- Detecting capitalisation in primary text
- Use of capitalisation in primary text
- Representing capitalisation in transcription
Colons
- Use of colons in primary text
- Representing colons in transcription
Commas
- Use of commas in primary text
- Representing commas in transcription
Crossing out
- Use of crossing out and cross hatching in primary text
- Representing crossing out and cross hatching in transcription
Dashes
- Different use of dashes in primary text
- Representation of different uses of dashes in transcription
- Double dashes
- Single dashes
Dots
- Use of dots in primary text
- Representing dots in transcription
Full stops
- Use of full stops in primary text
- Representing full stops in transcription
EXAMPLE: "in the yeare 1652. and moneths therein"
Handwriting
- Recognising different scripts
Headlines or headers
- Use of headlines or headers in primary text
- Representing headlines or headers found in primary text
Line length & line runover
- Determining line end in primary text
- Variable line length
- Text run on to next line
Marginalia
- Reading marginalia in primary text
- Reproducing marginalia in transcription
- Indicating LH & RH side location of marginalia
- Indicating top or below (above main text or below main text) of marginalia
Numerals
- Reading numerals on primary text
- Representing numerals in transcription
- Arabic numerals
- Roman numerals
Page layout
- End of page
- Start of page
- Text in LH or RH margin
- Text on LH side of page
- Text on RH side of page
Paragraphs
- Determining use of paragraphs in primary text
- Indicating start and end of paragraphs in transcription
Punctuation
- Recognition and transcription of mid-C17th punctuation
See Colons
See Commas
See Full stops
See Semi-colons
Semi-colons
- Use of semi-colons in primary text
- Representing semi-colons in transcription
Signatures (and marks, if illiterate)
- Reading signatures in primary text
- Reading signature marks, where interrogate is illiterate
- Reproducing signatures in transcription
- Reproducing signature marks in transcription
Text size
- Use of different text size in primary text
- Representing text size in trancription
