Vitruvius 1673

Vitruvius Pollio 1673: Les dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve ​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

1. First Analysis

Difficulties

• ​Chapterwise footnotes. Should be no problem. DE Specs say they should be typed where they occur on the page.
• ​Marginal Letters could be ignored

Special Instructions

2. Questions From Formax

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A

3. Analysis of the Result

Findings

• "Latin Small Letter L with Caron" (Unicode 013E, Latin Extended A: ľ) was used rather than l', likewise ď. This ​picture shows that two types of apostrophe were used randomly by the typesetter. All of them were typed with aforementioned characters.
  • Typesetter's mistake of using "Acute Accent" (´) in one instance was also noted correctly by typists (​link).
  • Even ​this instance was coded as ĽA<sc>RCHITECTURE</sc>
• ​Italic T was typed as infinity sign

Recommendation

• Maybe make a note in the next version of the Specs how to deal with idiosyncrasies in European languages (French apostrophes).

4. Post-Processing