Index talk:Encyclopædia Britannica, first edition - Volume I, A-B.pdf

Reference
Reference for me and for whoever seems interested in this. Going without any stylistic guides seems silly, so I'll define basic stuff here.


 * Entries

Entries in the EB1771 don't seem to have the girth of EB1911, so pages will be transcluded by the first two letters (i.e., XX; entry for CLOWN will be at EB1771/C/CL or however the page works. Therefore, anything with the same beginning two letters should be put in the same section.

For example, for these example pages...

BALL, a cool thing. BAIT, a cool tool. BASS, a cool instrument. BAZ, a nice thing. BBO, a place. BBE, something something.

&lt;section begin=BA /&gt; BALL, a cool thing. BAIT, a cool tool. BASS, a cool instrument. BAZ, a nice thing. &lt;section end=BA /&gt; &lt;section begin=BB /&gt; BBO, a place. BBE, something something. &lt;section end=BB /&gt;

Hopefully this explains how transcluding things will work.


 * Pages

All pages should have hanging indents. If the page does not begin with a new entry, then start a hanging indent with indent at 0 at the header (Header: . When the entry ends, and a new one begins, end the first hanging indent and start a second one

If the page does start with a new entry... to be figured out when I find one.

All pages should end with. Best examples currently are Page:Encyclopædia Britannica, first edition - Volume I, A-B.pdf/15 and Page:Encyclopædia Britannica, first edition - Volume I, A-B.pdf/16.


 * Plates

To be figured out.


 * Titles for major sections

Some topics break off from the entry layout, like anatomy and botany. I made Page:Encyclopædia Britannica, first edition - Volume I, A-B.pdf/185 to show how these would be made. That is to be sectioned off soon.


 * Header

The header is already done for you; just change the XXXes. Keep in mind topics have different headers.


 * Multi paragraph entries

Some entries encompass several paragraphs. Currently, one of these, ABERDEEN, located at Page:Encyclopædia Britannica, first edition - Volume I, A-B.pdf/18, does this. My dirty solution to prevent it from leaving a hanging indent at every paragraph is to:


 * 1) End the hanging indent after the first paragraph.
 * 2) Use with 2em as the first parameter and the rest of the entry as the second parameter.
 * 3) Continue the hanging indent after the end of the entry.


 * Yuck! The long s

Use for all the long s's you see for consistency. If you do make a page with no long s's in it, then let it be known or something.

Hopefully, this can be updated over the next few pages as I find more oddities and exemptions to be made. Thanks, EggOfReason (talk) 15:35, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Moved with emendation to the proper location at Talk:EB1. — LlywelynII  18:06, 14 November 2022 (UTC)