Index talk:Tragedies of Sophocles (Plumptre 1878).djvu

Editorial formatting

Although most formatting adheres as strictly as possible to the original publication, two changes have been made as a matter of common sense, owing to the electronic nature of Wikisource:

(1) Marginal asterisks

As the author states in his Preface, "I have indicated . . . by an asterisk (*) the more prominent passages in which the text is so uncertain, or the construction so difficult, that the rendering must be looked on as, at best, somewhat uncertain." These asterisks appear in-line with the text, and shift the neighboring text to the right. For this electronic transcription {{fqm}} is used to float the asterisks to the margin so that the poetry aligns, as follows:

Original:

⁠See! They come;
And lo! their crimsoned hands drip drops of gore
*Poured out to Ares; and I dare not blame.

This edition:

⁠See! They come;
And lo! their crimsoned hands drip drops of gore
*Poured out to Ares; and I dare not blame.

(2) Displaced line numbers

In some instances, the text lines in the original spanned the entire width of the page, leaving no room for the line numbers. In such cases, the typesetter has shifted the line number either up or down by one line, and has indicated this with a left bracket. For this electronic edition, where the page width is not so constrained, the line numbers have been set next to their proper lines of text using {{pline}}, as follows:

Original:

Chor. We see it, daughter; and at what has chanced
A tear of gladness trickles from our eyes.⁠[¹²³⁰

This edition:

Chor. We see it, daughter; and at what has chanced1230
A tear of gladness trickles from our eyes.

--EncycloPetey (talk) 00:17, 16 January 2017 (UTC)