Rules for compositors and readers at the University Press, Oxford · Oxford University Press
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
This was a reference book for typesetters and proofreaders at the University Press, Oxford. While primarily covering English words and grammar, it also addresses French, German, Latin and Greek text in UP books. This etext simplifies the original text by using common Unicode characters, so that a wide variety of display devices will present a more readable book to readers. A few less common characters remain, and some devices may not display them correctly. Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of each major section. Many footnotes have more than one anchor; in these cases the second and third anchors have been denoted by {number}. In this etext italic text is denoted by _underscores_. A superscript is denoted by ^x or ^{xx}, for example y^e or C^{10}H^{12}. A subscript is denoted by _{x}, for example P_{1}. The original book had many German words and phrases in Fraktur (blackletter) font, primarily in Appendix III. This etext has replaced each Fraktur letter with the corresponding roman letter, and the Fraktur text string is denoted by =equalsigns=. Appendix III addresses printing of German Fraktur text. There are many digraphs (a pair of letters printed as one type-letter) in the Fraktur text in the original book. They are shown in this etext as a pair of letters in roman, for example ch, ck, ff, ſſ, ſt, ſz. The printed long-s character, ſ, has been retained and _not_ changed to the modern short s character. In the original book a Fraktur word-division was indicated by an = (for example an=fangen); in this etext a tilde ~ is used instead (an~fangen).
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