User talk:Thunderbolt1004

Reverted changes in Voltaire

Hi! Thanks for helping out on Letters concerning the English nation! I just wondered why you reverted my edit to your page Page:Lettersconcerni01conggoog.djvu/147? I've explained my reasoning below for what I'd done, with some links to the help (which I find particularly hard to navigate and find the right pages in).

The first T in the text is a drop letter, so I used the dropinitial template as described in Help:Templates#Character Formatting to do that. The HE of the first word are the same height as the other capital letters on that line (eg D in Discoveries), so I didn't see any reason to make them small caps.

The will at the start of the second paragraph is in small caps, but the the W is the same height as the ill, not higher, so should be will not Will.

The final word on the page, the, is actually what's called a 'catchword' - it is the first word on the next page, and is put there to make sure the printers put the pages of the book in the right order. It goes in a footer, like page numbers etc, because otherwise when the pages are run together in the complete book, you will see the word 'the' twice. (You can see that here, in the second paragraph: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Letters_concerning_the_English_Nation/Letter_XV&oldid=6158983).

Finally, although it doesn't make a difference to the final display, the Help:Formatting conventions do say to remove the unnecessary line breaks, which is why I've done it on other pages.--Kastrel (talk) 14:35, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

@Kastrel: Yeah sorry about that, Kastrel. Don't worry, I've learned from my mistake and won't do it again. (Going to Now Proofread more Pages) Thunderbolt1004 (talk) 16:15, 10 November 2016 (UTC)