 | Formatting guidelines specific to this work may have already been established. Please check this Index's discussion page and follow any such conventions.
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 archaic forms such as long s, or rotunda r.
- Use straight quotes.
- Replace stylistic ligatures like
fl, fi,  fl, fi, ct
- Diacritic ligatures such as
æ and œ 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 {{SIC|text in scan|Alternate reading}}
- Noted printer erratum are also indicated with {{SIC|text in scan|Alternate reading}}
- 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 {{ruffhead/heading|section|side-heading}}.
- 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 {{ruffhead/heading|1|side-heading}}.
- Intermediate numbering , typically (1),(2) in brackets is added 'inline' as indicated in the text, appropriate level {{anchor}} should be added.
- Use {{anchor|x.y}} style anchors as {{anchor|n}} 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 {{right sidenote}} (or {{LR sidenote}}) with each entry being a footnote inside the template. A {{smallrefs|columns=2}} tag being placed at the end of the Chapter or Section or statute (as well as the following in the Page footer:
{{rule}}
{{smallrefs|columns=2}}
—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)
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