Index talk:Banking Under Difficulties- Or Life On The Goldfields Of Victoria, New South Wales And New Zealand (1888).pdf

Running heads

• The heads are actually small caps, not all caps, but rather than retype all the heads as lower case and set them as sc we can just make the caps smaller. The semicolon after them is standard size. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 22:03, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

{{rh|14|{{smaller|BANKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES}};|}}

• Although quite a few of them now seem to be set as small caps, which is fine if people are happy with changing the text: Can we agree on which to use? —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 22:15, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

OK, I'm going to go with small caps, so will be changing the running heads to {{sc|banking under difficulties}}; etc. throughout. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 09:39, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

OCR

• The Tesseract OCR (from the new Transcribe Text button) seems to be doing a better job than Google OCR and the Internet Archive's transcribed text. The Clean Up OCR extension gets rid of line endings fine; I can help set people up with the TemplateScript extension if you don't have it installed in your common.js already (see my User:Giantflightlessbirds/common.js for the code). —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 22:03, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Quotes

• Could we do curly quotes and proper apostrophes? This is likely to be made into a text reprint at some point so good typography will be important. The OCR doesn't do a great job at transcribing quotes so we'll have to correct many by hand. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 22:03, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

• How do we do curly quotes and proper apostrophes? I'm getting better at finding my way round the various help pages for WikiSource but haven't found instructions for those things yet. DrThneed (talk) 05:02, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

• Ignore that, I see it's a keyboard thing not a template thing. Will have to revisit all the pages I've already proofed. DrThneed (talk) 05:16, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Misc

• Numbers and pound signs £ are not transcribing well.
• I and 1 and T are getting confused

Anything else people notice, add here. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 22:03, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

• Chapters start with the first word in small caps, @DrThneed: thanks for noticing that. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 07:34, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

• Had to make up for my straight/curly quotes stuff-up somehow (all fixed now, I think). Have put hanging indents on the chapter summaries although noticed the odd one is centred instead. The OCR does a truly terrible job on small caps. DrThneed (talk) 08:16, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

• Also having problems with numbers - 3 transcribes as 8 and visa versa.Jen8000 (talk) 01:29, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Ornaments

• All the typographic ornaments (and one coat of arms) have been scanned and are available at the Commons category. Note most of the ornaments are used multiple times; they're named after the first page number on which they appear. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 05:13, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

• I'm adding a 6-em double-height row above the ornaments to give them a bit of space: —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 11:14, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

{{dhr|6em}}

• And I changed my mind on seeing the transcluded text, and changed these all to a standard dhr, which looks a bit nicer in the final book. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 02:02, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

Dashes

The long dashes ——— used to make a name anonymous are {{longdash}}. They sometimes look like two em dashes on the page, but that's what the typesetters of the time cobbled together. The dashes in the small-caps chapter summaries look like em dashes (—) to me, anyway, they seem to match the length of the em dashes in the text. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 01:45, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

• I've been putting a nowrap around the longdashes that come after initials and/or have following punctuation so they can't end up split over lines, like {{nowrap|H{{longdash}},}} is H———, DrThneed (talk) 21:55, 26 July 2021 (UTC)