Difference between revisions of "Palaeography Policy"

Revision as of 17:08, August 8, 2012

Policy issues

Editorial history

08/08/12: WT, created new page

Abbreviation

• Representation of abbreviations, especially use of lines over single letters, parts of words, or whole words

Capitalisation

• Standardize capitalisation for persons and places?

ISSUE: Capital/non-capital distinction hard to determine by non-expert palaeographer

Crossing out

• Should crossed out or blotted out letters or words be indicated in transcription?

Dashes

• Distinguish length and type of dashes used in manuscript?

ISSUE: Distinguishing space filling dashes from dashes used as hyphens or to show run over between manuscript lines?

Dots

• Reproduction of dots, especially preceeding and following greek/arabic or roman numbers?

Page layout

• How to indicate page layout, especially position of headers, signatures, and marginalia?

Paragraphs

• Determining start and end of paragraphs in legal documents?

Punctuation

• Recognition of, and reproduction of, mid-C17th punctuation, especially commas, semi-colons, colons, and double dashes ("=")?

Comments

2012-08-08 18:08:11 nbsp Dr Charlene Eska, one of the MarineLives advisors, is taking the lead, in developing an editorial policy for MarineLives. --Users/ColinGreenstreet