DATA ENTRY SPECIFICATIONS FOR TWO TEXTS:

TEXT 1: ZHONGGUO YINGZAO XUESHE YUANQI
TEXT 2: ZHONGGUO YINGZAO XUESHE KAIHUI YANCI

GENERAL

1. ENCODING. The text shall be encoded as Unicode

2. PAGE BREAKS. Indicate the end of each page by typing <br>

3. COLUMN BREAKS. Use one input line for each column. A return should
be typed after each column

4. TITLES. The titles of the two texts should be tagged with <title>
at the beginning and </title> at the end

5. LINES. Certain sequences of characters in the text are indicated
with a line to the right. Sequences of characters indicated in this
way should be tagged with a code at the beginning and end: <sl> and
</sl> around a sequence with the single straight line

6. SMALL CHARACTERS. Some parts of the text are written in small
characters. Sequences of small characters should be tagged with a
<small> at the beginning and </small> at the end of the sequence

7. ILLEGIBLE CHARACTERS. If a character is illegible because of bad
printing, indicate it as <x> -- use one <x> for each illegible character

8. UNKNOWN CHARACTERS. If a character is not recognized or can not be
encoded in Unicode, indicate it by a numeric tag, so that the first
unrecognized character is indicated as <01>, the second as <02> and so
on; keep a list of these characters and reuse the same numeric code if
the character reoccurs later in the text. Please provide a list
showing the numeric codes used and a reproduction of the character for
which they stand

9. PAGE NUMBERS AND RUNNING HEADS. Running heads and page numbers
occur on the outer edge of pages. Running heads contain the title of
the text.  Running heads should be tagged with <run> at the beginning
and </run> at the end. Page numbers, which occur in the same column as
the running head, should be typed with <pn> at the beginning and </pn>
at the end

WORK SAMPLE AND ESTIMATE

1. Please transcribe a sample of the first 2 pages according to the
specifications given above

2. The original text will be lent to FORMAX for scanning

3. Please provide a cost estimate for transcription of the two texts