Index talk:The history of Tom Jones (1749 Volume 1).pdf

When proofreading this text, please preserve long S.

PG has an unsourced version that can be used to merge and split to replace this awful OCR. Languageseeker (talk) 20:11, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I would not trust the Gutenberg edition. Tom Jones has been re-edited many, many times since its first publication because it has been considered controversial. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:29, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

An attempt
I'm giving this a shot. Ideas for how to proceed, so far:


 * Long S!
 * Curly quotes
 * Maintaining the edition's non-standard (from our perspective) capitalization, italicization, etc.
 * I wish I could replicate the quotation-mark-on-every-line thing, but even if I figured it out I expect it would be confusing.
 * I suspect I'll keep the long paragraphs of dialogue without any line breaks, but I do find them confusing when reading this (even in modern versions). There are other aspects of rendering dialogue that I'm going to figure out how to treat when I get there.
 * Figuring out how to transclude the table of contents is something I'll be playing with

On the whole my aim is to be very conservative with this.

Anyone interested is very much invited to comment or help out! Piney5000 (talk) 21:22, 2 March 2024 (UTC)