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 and signatures; the use of U and V; ligature ß for ss

​Euclid (1558, Latin)

Latin (and Greek) ligatures, for example ct (simple ligature) and que (complex ligature); long quotations (p.410); paper creases (p.2); extensive marginal notes (p.50)

​Euclid (1703, Latin/Greek?)

Greek ligatures: ​image p.16 (see also here); columns (recto: gr lat, verso: lat gr) with "un-synchronized pagebreaks"

​QQTS (1627, Chinese; with ​xml)

(The first 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

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