Queries from Formax

[Please note: This page is no longer maintained. The correspondence with Formax can now be found on the individual wiki pages for each book.]

This page is used for copying letters from Formax concerning data entry.

• Question about Data Entry Spec 1.1.2 of CD12 [2008-12-10].txt
  • Special Instruction for Pappus (1660): anchored comments

• 1210-berlin.doc
  • misunderstanding of the SI for anchored comments in Pappus; I had prepared a reply, but they figured it out themselves

• Question about CD12 [2008-12-10].txt --> 1210-berlin2.doc
  • some more Greek ligatures in Pappus, not yet answered
  • estimated date 15th December

• Data conversion work order II.txt
  • a missing page in Conimbricensis
  • rules for ​descriptions in images
  • rules for missing anchors ​here and ​here
  • rules for ​columns in text flow

• Data conversion work order III.txt
  • question about Aristoteles (1547), answered by email (​character that looks like umlaut/ diaresis): Always type it as ë, for example aër.
  • question about Cavalieri (1653), answered by email (​rules for lines above or beneath a character): Type it as { 00 / }, { / 1 }
  • defective page scan in Angeli (1671): already sent

• Data conversion work order IV.txt
  • markup of ​formula with square root: F G = <sqrt>2 _rx_ - _xx_</sqrt> X <sqrt>2 _rx_ - _xx_</sqrt>
  • markup of ​overlines and underlines: <ol>DE</ol><^>3</^> ad <ol>AC</ol><^>3</^>
  • Special instruction for ​superscript dots in Berzelius (1819): ETAS</sc> plumbicus. # \2.Pb <ol>A</ol>^2

• Special Instructions for Work Order V (Individual Texts)
  • ​Alberti (1565): Line numbers
  • ​Aristoteles (1548): Special Instructions for table
  • ​Bion (1723): rules for typing the table on p. 209
  • ​Gravesande (1721/5): type the horizontal lines as #.

• Chinese_Euclid_unclear_characters.pdf
  • how to type certain chinese characters in Euclid (1930); answered, but not sent to China yet