= 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 ( . , ; ! ? )


  * [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView/ECHOzogiLib?url=/mpiwg/online/permanent/library/163127KK/pageimg&pn=1&mode=imagepath Benedetti] (1585, annotated)

handwritten annotations (cannot be typed in China); spaces within words ("e cclipses"); catchwords; the use of U and V; ligature ß for ss


  * [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/historymechanics/archimdesecho/eucli_eleme_515_la_1558 Euclid] (1558, Latin)

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


  * [http://libcoll.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/libview?mode=imagepath&url=/mpiwg/online/permanent/library/GZ4WCF31/pageimg Euclid] (1703, Latin/Greek)

Greek ligatures: [http://libcoll.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/libcoll_zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/GZ4WCF31/pageimg&pn=16&ws=1&wx=0.5901&wy=0.3956&ww=0.3128&wh=0.0836 image p.16] (see also [wiki:GreekLigatures here]); columns (recto: gr lat, verso: lat gr) with "un-synchronized pagebreaks"


  * [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/chineseknowledge/china/schre_qiqit_X03_zh_1627 QQTS] (1627, Chinese; with [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/chineseknowledge/china/schre_qiqit_X03_zh_1627/getFullTextXML xml])

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


  * [http://nausikaa2.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/toc/toc.x.cgi?dir=hutto_dicti_078_en_1795&step=thumb Hutton] (1795, English encyclopedia; with [http://141.14.236.86/cvs-web/read/cvswebread.cgi/~checkout~/texts/archimedes/xml/hutto_dicti_078_en_1795.xml xml])

references to other entries

(The first DE Specs draft, to be delivered by 2008-09-29, will not include specs for dictionaries.)