The first fifty pages of ​Diversae "Conimbricenses In Universam dialecticam" (1606), ​Benedetti, Giovanni Battista de "Diversarvm specvlationvm mathematicarum, et physicarum liber" (1585) and ​Euclid "Elementorum Libri XV" (1607) were digitized and sent back for evaluation. In general, the results are very good.

Unfortunately, the work sample does not contain a page of the ​Conimbricenses where the ​Special Instructions apply.

PDF versions of the work samples are attached. In these PDF versions, the font is Helvetica 12pt (10pt for Benedetti), blank lines have been inserted before <pb> tags, and < > { } _ are in bold face.

Offsets ECHO - page numbers in the book: Diversae 2, Benedetti 12

What does work

• Letters with swashes are recognized, except for this ​Quod which was transcribed as Luod. Character recognition is surprisingly high, e. g. ​Conimbricenses, p. 3
• ​List of unknown characters is used (two characters so far), unreadable text is marked up accurately.
• Multiline headings are recognized, possibly because of punctuation
• Both methods of marking up italics in headings is used:

  <h it>TRACTATVS QVI IN HOC
  volumine continentur.</h>
  

(​Benedetti, p. 6)

<h>_Theoremata Arithmetica._</h>

(​Benedetti, p. 13)

• Library stamps are either ​typed:

  <h>MAX-PLANCK-INB<?>TITUT
  $<?>UR WISS<?>ENSCN<?>AF<?>T@@@@CHICHTE</h>
  <h>Bibliothek</h>
  

or coded as ​<fig>:

<h><red>E SOCIETATE IESV,</r></h>
<h>_IN VNIVERSAMDIA_
_Iecticam Ari$totelis Stagiritæ_</h>
<fig>
<fig>

• Parentheses work well, only one example with spaces within parentheses (​Benedetti, p. 9). Original has spaces.
• The ​List of unknown characters works good and is obviously frequently updated. Unknown character <010>, however, is represented by a wrong image. The unknown character in question is ​this one. Unknown character <006> and <011> do not occur in the work samples, characters ​<012> and ​<014> occur in the text, but are not on the list (yet?).

Small problem with the list: there is only one list for all documents. Was this intended?

What does not work

• The <red> tag is always closed by the </r> tag.
• Some ornamental figures are not tagged, e. g. ​this one.
• Various mistypings:
  • $in rather than ​$m
  • f rather than ​$ (∫) (frequently)
  • ÿ rather than ​{ij} (italics only, frequently)
  • b rather than ​h (italics only, frequently)
  • œ rather than ​æ (italics only)
• Number 10 becomes <sc>IO</sc> in ​Euclid, p. 13. A date on the same page is recognised correctly.
• Greek Ligatures
  • Letter variation of τ was recognized, but τ (in the same word!) was typed as ​T (as in άγεωμέΤρητ@ (Euclid, p. 9)) and correctly in the next word
• This ​Vale. has been taken for a catchword.
• Tartaglia (1565), ​p. 16: first two figures are coded as one figure, the two at the bottom are separate. Caption works.
• What happens with spaces in the text like ​this one? Are they meaningful?

Adjustments to be made

• In the ​DESpecs 1.1.2 it is not said that the <mg{l|r}> tag may contain the it argument. Thus, the _ _ markup is used consistently. The Specs should allow this.