Vitruvius 1556

Vitruvius Pollio 1556: Dieci libri dell'architettura di Vitruvio ​ECHO, ​New ECHO

Part of WO9. To be sent with DESpecs version 2.0.1

Sent: yes/2009-11-19

Returned: yes/2009-12-17, raw text in trac​

1. First Analysis

• ​Numeration of lines in the right-most position (Ten's)
• Change between roman and italic type in the whole text
• ​Zeilenverschiebung
• ​Table list within the text flow
• ​sheet music
• ​strange illustrations with numbers
• ​curly braces
• ​partly with two columns
• ​table with special characters (including following pages)
• ​dots within the text

Difficulties

Special Instructions

2. Questions From Formax

Q Please see ​vitruvius_1556, 0022.jpg, how to key the following data.

A Please mark this structure as a figure:

<figure>
<desc it>Tutta la forma, e figura dell'o- \\ pera ſi conſidera ò uero</desc>
<desc it>in ſe & coſi</desc>
<desc it>riſerita</desc>
...
</figure>
<mgr>50</mgr> 

3. Analysis of the Result

Findings

• Line numbering ok
• Dealt with ​Zeilenverschiebung as good as possible marked some some characters as unreadable (@)
• ​Table list within the text flow is ok.
• Marked ​sheet music as figure.
• Marked ​strange illustrations with numbers as figure, as well.
• Introduced table-like structure for typing ​curly braces:

  <p>Il Tetracordo delle eccellenti, e $opra acute detto Hiperbolcon,
  è que$to.</p>
  <p>Nete Diezeugmenon. \\ Trite Hyperboleon. \\ Paranete Hiperboleon \\ Nete Hyperboleon.}</p>
  </col>
  

• Subject of Formax's above question was eventually not typed as figure, but instead as table.
• Instead of typing unknown character code <007> for dotless i, Latin Small Letter Iota (Unicode 0269, IPA Extension) was used.
• Typed text ends with none which is not to be found on the last page.

Recommendation

4. Post-Processing