User:Shenme/admmv1

Poke at noticing a style guide for the volumes of "A Dictionary of Music and Musicians"
 * Vol. 1 • Vol. 2 • Vol. 3 • Vol. 4

(examined thru p. 4)

Fidelity
A perfect reproduction of the information in the dictionary is mandatory.

A perfect reproduction of the appearance of the contents of the dictionary is desirable.
 * But there are obvious departures from this, so what to make of this desire?

List of contributors
The list of contributors/authors are listed with their initials (as used in attributions), alphabetized by last initial, on these pages from the beginning of volume 1:

A - D p. vii

D - L  p. viii L - P  p. ix P - T  p. x

T - W p. xi

and the list ends with the humble editor [G.]

Frequently used
center aka c
 * text to center on line

text to center on line

larger aka big
 * text displayed larger
 * text displayed larger

smallcaps aka sc

Often used
Paragraph end at end of page:

Most often an article will continue from one page to the next, breaking within a sentence, which also means breaking within a paragraph which continues over the page break.

When the paragraph and page end together, we need to tell Wikisource that a new paragraph is needed to start the next page. This is signalled by adding a nop as the last line of the page.
 * The chief public institution in New York for teaching music
 * is the New York conservatory of music.

Link to author of an article within dictionary, with right alignment:
 * [ F. T. ]

[ F. T. ]
 * At the end of every short article within the Grove dictionary there is an attribution, a link to the original author of that article. It is styled as initials within square brackets, e.g. [C. F. P.] in the dictionary and we retain that styling, but link to the article here for that author, e.g. Carl Ferdinand Pohl.

Less frequently used
dropinitial use preview before publish.
 * hint given to the public: Always
 * hint given to the public: Always

This is seen on pages that begin subjects on a new letter, e.g. vol 1 p. 107

An isolated single quote in complex text:

Some text had the following form:


 * a 3' a 4'

which was not reproducible using the straight-forward:
 * a 3' a 4'

because the interactions between the quotes produced:
 * a 3' a 4''

Rather we needed to use the wiki-workaround of '
 * a 3' a 4'

But couldn’t the more perfect reproduction using curly quotes
 * ‘a 3’ ‘a 4’
 * ‘a 3’ ‘a 4’

have been used?



Help links
Character / Font Sizing  Help:Font size templates

To do
Page headings:

Each page of the dictionary has two columns. Every page (except 2 or 3) has a heading at top of page. The heading contains a page number on alternating left or right edges. Besides the page number, headings contain a note identifying for each column what article is first in the column.

Typical examples would be:


 * as displayed:

6 ASANTSCHEWSKY.
 * as coded:
 * 6
 * ASANTSCHEWSKY.

Exceptional page headings: vol 1 p. 1 • • vol 1 p. 643 • • vol 1 p. 765

There is variation seen in handling pages in which a single subject occupies both columns of a particular page. As for most pages, most headings have topic notes displayed for both columns.
 * 4


 * 6


 * ASANTSCHEWSKY.


 * AUBER.

However, these variations have been seen:


 * Single topic note:
 * 2


 * ABBREVIATIONS.


 * ANTHEM.


 * Page number centered:


 * ABEL

Which of these variations should be disallowed?

As always, join hyphenated words across lines within page.

Is eliminating line breaks important?
 * At which stage?

Mention how to denote where the columns break on a page.
 * Don’t? Just join the text together, from column 1 bottom to column 2 top, without any marker?

Sections?

 * 1) A battuta ##
 * Are sections that cross page boundaries noted on each page?
 * ## Abbé, Philippe and Pierre ##
 * on p. 1 and p. 2

Unusual:


 * 1) Abbé, Philippe and Pierre ##

ABBÉ, and , two brothers, …

Project self-links

 * ../Alphabet • • ../A tempo

Typical short article layout
after proofreading:


 * ## Abbatini, Antonio ##

Tiferno, or at Castello (Baini), in 1595 or 1605, and died in 1677. Was successively Maestro di …
 * ABBATINI,, was born at


 * ## Abel, Karl ##
 * ABEL,, one of the most …

Section name texts should include:
 * how much of a person’s name? Capitalization?
 * how much of a technical term? Capitalized?

Note that the initial keywords are capitalized, but following keywords may be in smallcaps, e.g.
 * ABBEY,, a distinguished organ-builder; …
 * ABBEY,, a distinguished organ-builder; …


 * It is unclear what the rules are for when to switch to using smallcaps

English and older English
You may encounter words which are misspelled. You will certainly encounter words which are unfamiliar to you. Do not assume it is a misspelling until you are very sure. (In another project it was found that ’firth’, as in "Firth of Forth", was spelled as ’frith’ before 1850.) Older English is not modern English!

Music and scores
Replacing music scores within a page may be done using two different methods. Like other projects where pages contain illustrations, pages may have to include image files containing a clipped out picture of the score from the original page image.

But if the score is uncomplicated, it may be possible to reproduce the score using a music layout method available at Wikisource called "Lilypond". See vol 1 p. 2 for an example score. This is nowhere as simple as reproducing textual content.

a 3' a 4’ a 3' a 4’

£

É é È è Ä ä Ü ü


 * [[File:Figure_rythmique_double_croche_hampe_haut.svg]]   [[File:Figure_rythmique_double_croche_hampe_bas.svg]]
 * [[File:Figure_rythmique_croche_hampe_haut.svg]]   [[File:Figure_rythmique_croche_hampe_bas.svg]]
 * [[File:Figure_rythmique_noire_hampe_haut.svg]]   [[File:Figure_rythmique_noire_hampe_bas.svg]]  [[File:Quarter_note_with_upwards_stem.svg]]
 * [[File:Figure_rythmique_blanche_hampe_haut.svg]]   [[File:Figure_rythmique_blanche_hampe_bas.svg]]   [[File:Half_note_with_upwards_stem.svg]]
 * [[File:WhiteNotehead.svg]]
 * [[File:WholeNote.svg]]
 * [[File:Figure_rythmique_ronde.svg]]
 * [[File:1-1_note_semibreve.svg]]


 * [[File:8thNote.svg]]
 * [[File:8thRest.svg]]
 * [[File:Rest.svg]]


 * [[File:Crotchet_rest_plain-svg.svg]]
 * [[File:Crotchet_rest_alt_plain-svg.svg]]
 * [[File:Crotchet rest alt plain-svg.svg]]


 * [[File:Commontime.svg]]
 * [[File:Allabreve.svg]]
 * [[File:C_(indication_de_mesure).svg]]
 * [[File:C_barr%C3%A9_(indication_de_mesure).svg]]
 * [[File:Mensural_time_signature_4.svg]]
 * [[File:Music-cuttime.svg]]
 * [[File:2-2_Takt.png]]

List of contributors - misplaced ", Esq."
Accidental linkification of title "Esq." when including within sc:


 * |||E. D.
 * A_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians/List_of_Contributors
 * Page:A_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians_vol_1.djvu/11
 * Page:A_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians_vol_2.djvu/9
 * Page:A_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians_vol_3.djvu/9
 * Page:A_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians_vol_4.djvu/11


 * |, United States Consul, Trieste, Author of the Life of Beethoven||A. W. T.
 * A_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians/List_of_Contributors
 * Page:A_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians_vol_1.djvu/12 (found corrected here)
 * Page:A_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians_vol_2.djvu/11
 * Page:A_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians_vol_3.djvu/11
 * Page:A_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians_vol_4.djvu/14

Proposed fix - move "Esq." past end of link:
 * |||E. D.
 * |, United States Consul, Trieste, Author of the Life of Beethoven||A. W. T.


 * *Done*

List of contributors - spacing S. B. G.
Hmmm, while the entry in vol 4 contributors (and only found in vol 4) had
 * |||S. B.G.

every instance of attribution within vol 4 had it as [S. B. G.] (see search)

So while the list of contributors faithfully reproduces the list entry in vol 4, all usages/attributions should have the space:
 * [ S. B. G. ]


 * *Not a problem* - since all attributions are done correctly, and only the index instance is malformed, and that faithfully reproduces the source, we're all good!

Experiment: cut-n-paste list of contributors
Where confusion about placement was possible, entries were duplicated for easier location. (H. M. D., G. , M.)