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Book-by-book coding instructions

ID # AHA2659
SHORT BATCH DESIGNATION: AA
TITLE: Le Morte Arthur: A Romance in Stanzas of Eight Lines
ED. J. Douglas Bruce
SERIES: Early English Text Society ES 88 (1903).


SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS

En-face? NO.

Key and code the following pages:

  Title page (recto and verso) = pp. [iii]-[iv]
  Text = pp. 1-121.

Structure

  This text consists of a single <DIV1 TYPE="Poem">,
  divided into numbered stanzas (<LG N="1"> etc.)
  The line and stanza numbers should be recorded 
  as attribute values only, not preserved as literal
  text. The indentation of every other line should
  be ignored.
  
Milestones

  Folio references are recorded in brackets in the 
  margin, in this form:
  
    [leaf 88]
    [leaf 88, back]
    [leaf 89]
    [leaf 89, back]
    
    etc.
    
  Record these as follows, placing the tag at the end
  of the line opposite which it appears in the edition:
  
    <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="88a">
    <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="88b">
    <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="89a">
    <MILESTONE UNIT="folio" N="88b">
    
Notes

  Editorial notes appear at the bottom of the page, keyed 
  to the text with superscripted footnote numbers. Omit
  the superscripted numbers and embed the notes at the
  appropriate place in the text:
  
  wist no wight,<NOTE PLACE="foot">MS. might.</NOTE></L>
  
Characters

  This edition uses many odd characters; including "r" and 
  "n" with rising finial strokes; "d" with an attached loop,
  "ll" crossed by a curling line; and "f" with a vertical
  stroke at the right end of the cross stroke. Treat these
  as simplex characters, i.e. as simple "r" "n" "d" "ll" and
  "f" respectively.