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[RCEberwein]

I am really confused by this instruction on the Formatting Guidelines page

[Adair]

Hi:

Sorry you did not get a reply yet from your February request. I noticed your second message earlier today and was hoping the PM might stop in to address the Caps question. Since this is an Uber Project, as you mentioned, the separate issues should be uniform in formatting, the PM or PP needs to make a global decision.

Don't fret over the prior issue formatting that you did. It will all sort out at the PP stage. The FORUM notes that you left will alert the PPer what to watch for. Thanks for pointing out the difference in formatting

The guidelines for drop caps is confusing because of the difference of treatment by PPers. You should expect some clear answer here shortly.

[Warmheart]

The way I see these:

<sc>Tick</sc> and <sc>What's</sc> -- if it's a Drop cap, please *convert* it to mixed case and add the small cap mark up.

I like this too

[Long Green]

Thanks for the response for which I also waited. It's too late now for me to fix my pages in F1. It apparently moved on to F2 about the time the site went down.

Site has been strange today -- have to sign in every time I go to another page/project even tho' I haven't signed out nor even left the site to go elsewhere. :shrug:

This needs mentioning on the Young Folks Wiki page, too.
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[cmspence]

Should we be putting [Illustration] markup for those illustrations that are part of the first letter of some of the poems, etc., as on png 741? Normally for a 'decorative' drop cap, I would just ignore it, but these illios are quite large, and are more than just a decorative letter.

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[naomi r]

On the front page, there's a poem beginning "My window". The word window is small caps, that's clear, but the "My" is like a manuscript illustration. I don't know what to do with it. I think the previous messages in this forum were about this issue, but I still don't understand them.

Also there are two other things on the page I don't know what to do about. There's the volume, date and number all on one line. There should be tabs or something, to keep them separate, but what?

Also, the registration, i.e. "entered according to act of congress..." I see by this forum that it should be retained, but is it a footnote, or is it a block quotation, or what?

[jjz]

[naomi r]

Thank you, that's very clear

[Scribe]

Watch for an F1 who places illustrations in the middle of paragraphs, altering the lines to accommodate, instead of at para breaks, page 98 in this volume is an example!

http://www.pgdpcanada.net/c/project.php?id=projectID4b5b275e0a024
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[jjz]

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[Antigony]

I've noticed at least one instance of contractions being closed up by proofers (Volume 2, Issue 6), page 324 (4th line from the bottom). Is this preferred, or should the spacing have been left?

Donna

[jjz]

There do not appear to be any special proofreading instructions so the proofreading guidelines would apply.

The example given in the proofreading contractions guideline is wouldn't.

[Antigony]

Jacqueline -

I didn't see anything either in comments, but just wanted to make certain.

Thank you for such a rapid reply.