Index talk:The Whetstone of Witte.djvu
Thoughts on the transcription.
[edit]You can use the long s if you like but I won't be - Life is too short. I consider long s as typography like a font choice.
Transcribe the text as accurately as possible - don't 'correct' or update spellings or other common letter swaps (including v-for-u).
Some of the mathematics sections will not be too painful to transcribe, although we need to decide if we're going to do them 'properly' (i.e. Latex based) or just using tables to emulate the columns.
...but once we get to the Cossic algebra we'll have to find some good ways to represent the Cossic symbols as they are not in Unicode. I'm open to suggestions. You can see where they came from here - https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema031756mbp/page/n153/mode/2up We need symbols for 'number' (looks like a theta), 'radix' (script rx), 'zensus' (script z), 'cubus' (script cs), 'sursolid' (script ss). Qq1122qq (talk) 20:40, 13 April 2024 (UTC)