Index talk:Observations on Certain Documents Contained in No. V & VI of "The History of the United States for the Year 1796," In which the Charge of Speculation Against Alexander Hamilton, Late Secretary of the Treasury, is Fully Refuted.pdf

Internal style

Except for the first 2 pages, I've been transcribing most of the text so far. It's a pamphlet, so there isn't much in the way of over-the-top stylizing. It's just a wall of text.

I've been using these rules for indentation:

• If a paragraph or line is only indented once (i.e. the amount of indentation given to a new paragraph) the transcribed text shouldn't be indented and should simply be represented by a line break. This applies whether the indentation is from the left or the right (see this page for an example).
• If a paragraph or line is indented more than once that should be indented, but by "one less" than the source text. So if a piece of text is indented by one in the source text, it shouldn't be indented. If it's indented twice it should be indented by one. (see this page for an example).

Other stuff:

• When using the {{rule}} template, one should aim to make it match the source text as best as possible. This can be easy to do on pages such as this one, and more difficult on others such as this one). The way I've been doing it is screen-capping one of the "easy" lines in the source text and comparing it to the length of the more difficult ones. That way I was able to discern that this one was roughly twice as long as this one.

Sincerely, InsaneHacker (💬) 11:14, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Also, something optional: Spelling errors are quite common, especially in the appendix where letters from James Reynolds, who wasn't the best speller, appear. I've been marking these with {{sic}} to notify any proofreaders that that is indeed how it is spelled in the text. I have however opted not to use {{sic}} when the spelling is an outdated way of spelling the word, and therefor contemporaneously correct. See page 81 where "ses" is marked with {{sic}} because it's a misspelling of "says", but "onely" isn't marked because it's merely an outdated version of "only". Sincerely, InsaneHacker (💬) 11:29, 28 October 2017 (UTC)