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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: writing v for u writing u for v; ligature ß for ss; missing hyphens; long citations

Euclid (1558, Latin)

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

Euclid (1703, Latin/Greek?)

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; footnotes (text at bottom of the page);

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.)

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