Index talk:Lettersconcerni01conggoog.djvu
Better quality scans of the same edition can be found at: http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/503290159.pdf Kastrel (talk) 16:10, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
Quote Marks at the start of multiple lines
[edit]The original book has a style of using " marks at the start of each line of quoted text. I have been ignoring those in favour of just the " marks at the beginning and end, because the line breaks are not kept from the original, so they serve no obvious purpose. Kastrel (talk) 16:05, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Interwiki Linking
[edit]I'm fairly new to Wikisource, and I notice it's not the style to include large numbers of interwiki links. However, in a historical text of this kind, I've found it hugely interesting and rewarding to identify the people mentioned, often by obscure titles or archaic names, and I've been linking to Wikipedia articles where they exist. I don't know what other people won't know, so I'm just working off my own 'I don't know who that is, who is that?' curiosity. Feel free to add more, or query if you think a particular link is wrong or unnecessary. For instance, in the chapter on inoculation, there's a discussion between 'Lady Wortley Mountague' and the 'Princess of Wales' who are really w:Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and w:Caroline of Ansbach#Princess of Wales and on their pages I learned even more about inoculation in Britain, and even a quote from Voltaire himself!
Since each chapter will have its own page, I am only linking the first occurrence of each page per chapter, but I am repeating them between chapters, as they are on separate pages. So Oliver Cromwell is only linked to once per chapter, but in several different chapters. I'm trying to be consistent about where I link to; I'm still a bit torn about whether to use Wikisource Author pages where they are available - it's nice to stay within WS, but at the same time most people clicking on a link will be looking for biographic information, not source texts.Kastrel (talk) 16:05, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
On the usage of the long s
[edit]Hello everyone, I would just to say that I'm new to Wikisource. Any help will be much appreciated.
In old printed documents, the s used to be printed like this:(ſ). However, printing the s like this is now obsolete. The problem arises when I try and proofread a page that is full of these. I don't know whether to keep the long s or swap it with a normal s. Any feedback about this will be much appreciated!Thunderbolt1004 (talk)
- Hi! Yes, I'm never really sure how useful long s is to use in Wikisource. Basically, if you use the template {{ls}} it displays as a long s in the proofreading area, and as a normal s in the final book, unless users deliberately turn it on with their CSS (see Letters concerning the English Nation/Letter XIII versus Page:Lettersconcerni01conggoog.djvu/121). So for most people, there's no visible difference in the finished book. I'm using it for proofing at the moment, but feel free to or not as you prefer.--Kastrel (talk) 14:35, 22 March 2016 (UTC)