Palaeography Policy
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Policy issues
Editorial history
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Contents
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 ("=")?
