Index talk:Ruffhead - The Statutes at Large, 1763.djvu

General guidelines

 * The guidelines at WS:MOS apply
 * Use Ruffhead/chapter for chapter headings
 * The actual footnotes at the bottom of the source pages are to the original language version, and should not be transcribed. (added Jarnsax (talk) 00:21, 18 July 2021 (UTC))

Typographic considerations

 * Use conventional modern letterforms for s,r,l,c,a,t,f etc, as opposed to arachic forms such as long s, or rotunda r.
 * Use straight quotes.
 * Replace stylistic ligatures like,  ,   with their expanded equivalents  ,  ,
 * Diacritic ligatures such as  and   should be preserved whenever they appear as such in the scan.

Ammenda, Eratum

 * Alternate readings, or (indicated in the margins or footnotes) are marked with
 * Noted printer erratum are also indicated with
 * Ammenda which insert text indicated as not in the original are marked with ⟨⟩, the insertion from the margin being placed inside the chevrons. An inline reference note can also be included.

Headings, Sectioning

 * Use rh for page headings.
 * A convention for how to apply sections has not yet been determined.
 * Note: the actual text used in the section label does not matter, so long as the sections are divided consistently and transclude correctly
 * Side headings (i.e sidetitles) are to be placed at the start of the relevant section, below the chapter heading but before the relevant section typically identified by roman numerals. Side-titles placed subsequently within the same (roman) numbered section are to be co-joined with a ";".
 * The entire sideheading is typically formated using.
 * Side headings for clear preamble sections at the start of a statute use ruffhead/preamble. (These typically restate or 'rehearse' certain previous statutes.)
 * In the initial preamble, a paragraph break is inserted (at discretion) after the words of enactment even though it's not part of the original. The "section" for the subsequent part is numbered 1, and uses.
 * Intermediate numbering, typically (1),(2) in brackets is added 'inline' as indicated in the text, appropriate level anchor should be added.
 * Use style anchors as  conflicts with the anchors added by the Pagenumber script on transclusion. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 06:36, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Bilingual content
Regarding content that is presented in two languages side-by-side:
 * Only transcribe the English content here
 * Transcribe the non-English content on the appropriate language Wikisource.

Sidenote handling

 * Sidenotes are used in the original work for:
 * Annotations such as translation or errata (see Ammenda and Erattum above.)
 * Cross references to related statutes with explanation. (typically in italic text.). These are placed at the end of the chapter or statute, in italic text with a 1em offset from the left margin. Footnotes marking these are placed inline.
 * Side titles - titles or summaries of sections of text - for formatting conventions see "headings and sections" above
 * Back references to earlier statutes, these are placed inline.
 * Forward references to later statutes and references to a statutes by authorities or other works, are placed on the right using (or ) with each entry being a footnote  inside the template. A  tag being placed at the end of the Chapter or Section or statute (as well as the following in the Page footer:

—Beleg Tâl (talk) 17:46, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Updated ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 06:14, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Further updated. What do you mean by "conventional s,r,l,c,t" ? —Beleg Tâl (talk) 12:51, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Updated ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 06:14, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Modified to 2 columns smallrefs, as most references are very short. Jarnsax (talk) 00:12, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Identification of references
In this work a Number of cross references to other works are given in abbreviated form, It would be appreciated if someone could provide expansions for them below:- ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 06:53, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
 * A helpful resource: https://legal-abbreviations.lawjournal.eu —Beleg Tâl (talk) 15:22, 14 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Talk:The Statutes at Large (Ruffhead)/Authorities


 * Per Blackstone...


 * Edward Coke's "Reports" (he gets cited without name) i.e. 1 Rep. 25, not 1 Coke's Rep 25...2 Rep. Pref. is the preface
 * Also Edward Coke's "Institutes". 4 vols, Co. Litt = 1 Inst, then 2 Inst. 3 Inst. 4 Inst.
 * Co. Litt is a commentary on Litt. en:w:Thomas_de_Littleton (a cite is Blackst. is "Litt. §. 212. 4 Inst. 274."}
 * "Judge Croke" gets special citation too. 1 Cro. = Cro. Eliz., 2 Cro. = Cro. Jac., 3 Cro = Cro. Car. (for Elizabeth, James, and Charles V)
 * Hal. Hist. = Hist. C.L. = Hale Hist. C.L. is "Hale's History of the Common Law", if it comes up.
 * Jarnsax (talk) 11:17, 17 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Also, see the (long) footnote at Page:William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (3rd ed, 1768, vol I).djvu/101 for an explanation of statute law citations. Jarnsax (talk) 23:31, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Sidenotes
When adding the 'forward references' sidenotes, the long lists of later statutes, please list each reference on one line, inside the template, as I have done at the first page. This is purely for editing sanity, as the linebreaks will be collapsed in the rendered page.... it just makes actually getting the list correct much easier. Jarnsax (talk) 22:53, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * To explain my logic here a bit, not only does having them displayed in the wikitext as a list make it easier to proofread them (at least for me) as ones that don't match the style become more obvious, but it seems likely that this will be edited by 'random people' in the future, specifically to add crosslinks to the references, and it will be easier (and less likely to break stuff) if they are easily identifiable in the markup. Jarnsax (talk) 21:54, 20 July 2021 (UTC)