Index talk:The Laws and Acts of Parliament of Scotland.djvu

Style notes (placed in lead)
ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:03, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Long-s(ſ) (sometimes looking like an f with missing cross bar) is transcribed as s
 * Z,z are transcribed as YOGH,yogh (per the Authogrpahy concern noted below).
 * u,v,i,j, should be transcribed as printed, (but use of SIC as appropriate is suggested.
 * This is 15-17th century Scots, so only other obvious printer errors should be marked with SIC in respect of other letters.

Do not use spell check here!
This is in 17th century Scots and so so a typicla spell checker will quite hapilly mangle words. :( ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 12:43, 6 January 2016 (UTC)


 * I would also add that to check spellings/variant spellings then the Dictionary of the Scots Language is a very useful resource, which can be accessed here https://dsl.ac.uk/ AndrewOfWyntoun (talk) 12:26, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Orthography concerns
How should we handle long s(&#383;), u/v, i/j, and z for yogh(in Middle English, Middle Scots, and Early Modern Scots, this letter, yogh[&#540;/&#541;] stood for the "y" sound and the sound that's now written "ch" in Scots[it's the same as "ch" in German]. In Early Modern Scots, when it was first printed, printing presses didn't have &#540;, so they used, and they didn't have &#541;, so they used .  When they first used roman fonts(around the time this was printed),  became Z, and  became z). Should we use the long s? Should we modernize the conventions for i/j and u/v? Should we correct Z/z to &#540;/&#541; JustinCB (talk) 00:24, 28 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Long-s has a template ls which will render appropriately, I'm not sure about the other issues, and would suggest you take it to a wider audience. YOGH and yogh. You might also ask User:MartinPoulter about this.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 00:32, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Apologies if I'm posting this question in the wrong place - very new to talk and discussion pages. I was just taking a look over some of the pages and noticed the use of ligatures, especially œ and æ. Are these being transcribed as 'oe' and 'ae' respectively, or is it preferable to use the ligatures as printed? AndrewOfWyntoun (talk) 14:45, 21 April 2020 (UTC)


 * . Generally they should be transcribed as œ and æ, as those ligatures exist in most modern web fonts, as long as it's doen consistently across the work. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:35, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Missing pages...
https://archive.org/details/lawsactsofparlia00scot_0/page/285/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/lawsactsofparlia00scot_0/page/286/mode/1up

https://archive.org/details/lawsactsofparlia00scot_0/page/291/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/lawsactsofparlia00scot_0/page/292/mode/1up

You are typically good at rebuilding files... assuming these are the matched up pages? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:08, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I can take a stab, but I think you'll need to spoon feed me the instructions. What DjVu file gets which pages from where and at what positions? --Xover (talk) 13:36, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

In table format :-


 * Alteranatively, the more complete scans could be uploaded as new Index and content moved across? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:53, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Please check that the result is ok. --Xover (talk) 15:01, 18 April 2020 (UTC)