Sample texts from ECHO

Some sample texts and their potential problems. (ECHO links for each potential problem to be included)

General problems: Spaces before and after punctuation marks ( . , ; ! ? )

• ​Benedetti (1585, annotated)

handwritten annotations (cannot be typed in China); spaces within words ("e cclipses"); catchwords

• ​Euclid (1558, Latin)

Latin (and Greek) ligatures, for example ct (simple ligature) and que (complex ligature); the use of U and V; long quotations (p.410); paper creases (p.2)

• ​Euclid (1703, Latin/Greek?)

Greek (and Latin) ligatures (see also here); columns (recto: gr lat, verso: lat gr) with "un-synchronized pagebreaks"

• ​QQTS (1627, Chinese; with ​xml)

(The DE Specs draft to be delivered by 2008-09-29 will include only European languages.)

• ​Hutton (1795, English encyclopedia; with ​xml)

references to other entries