Index talk:Marlowe-Faustus-1628.djvu
OCR[edit]
As the text is in black-letter, the original OCR was effectively useless. Consequently, I started from a transcription of the play (the 'B' text) on the 'Perseus Digital Library' website, and then proofread against the scan. The 'Perseus' transcription is from a different printed source: the main differences are around spelling, punctuation and capitalisation.
Spelling[edit]
Spelling has been preserved as printed (E&OE) except where u is used as v. In these instances, v has been substituted. Likewise i for j.
Formatting[edit]
The scanned text is almost all in black-letter script, apart from character names, which are rendered in normal font, both where the speaker is indicated and when mentioned in the text; and stage directions. As black-letter this is rather difficult to read, the transcription has been rendered as follows.
- Character names - Bold italic
- Stage directions - italic
- Character names within character speeches - italic
- Speech - normal
Layout[edit]
All pages are set up as {{center block}}, which since the work is continuous, {{center block/s}} and {{center block/e}} are in the header and footer respectively. Within each page all text is wrapped in <poem> </poem> Where speech is in rhyme/blank verse, the layout is as printed; where it isn't, the text is continuous and wraps automatically. Be guided by whether the first word of a line is capitalised or not.