General problems: Spaces before and after punctuation marks ( . , ; ! ? ) see here and here
- handwritten annotations (cannot be typed in China)
- spaces within words ("e cclipses")
- catchwords and signatures and another one
- the use of U and V: writing v for u writing u for v
- ligature ß for ∫s
- missing hyphens
- long citations
- Latin (and Greek) ligatures, for example ct (simple ligature) and que (complex ligature) (see also here for a longer list)
- paper creases
- extensive marginal notes and also handwritten notes and sketches
- italics: single word whole paragraph
- Greek ligatures: image p.16 (see also here)
- columns (recto: gr lat, verso: lat gr) with "un-synchronized pagebreaks"; sometimes, the columns fill the whole width of the page (see here); there are also schematic representations of special cases concerning columns: Doublepage columns, Column with extended line, End of columns text
- Small caps
- Running heads:
- Page numbers in various places:
- various hyphens
- various footnote symbols
- Arabic numbers and text at bottom of the page (Euclid (Latin/ Greek))
- Asterisk and text at bottom of the page (Euclid (Latin/ Greek)
- another one
- this is a dagger
- ornamented and unornamented drop caps
- <help> tag (creases etc.)
- <gap> tag (unreadable because of ink, holes, tears etc.)
- Punctuation
- Artifacts of the bookscanning process (mirrored text) is to be ignored (Euclid (Clavius))
- ∫ with slash followed by m = secundum
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