Layout Templates for Project Comments
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There are two types of template available
- standard sections of text, like pre-fabricated building blocks,
that can be automatically included in your project comments
wherever you place a special tag. These are particularly useful for series,
where some text will be common for many individual volumes, but there
are also some standard technical sections that can be
fitted into your comments like jigsaw pieces.
- fill-in-the-blank skeleton templates, for which you will have to
manually copy and paste the code and then fill in
specific information relating to the individual project.
Both types can be done as text or HTML, either plain or fancy.
Standard Templates
bae1.txt
BG1a.txt
BG1b.txt
BGr2.txt
diac.txt
pgnm.txt
port.txt
wrrn.txt
file.txt
If you would like to create your own re-usable templates
DP Help
Skeleton Layout Samples
Preview of Templates available for Project Comments
bae1.txt
BAE projects have two special rules that always apply, whether or not the general Guidelines currently say the same thing:
* Preserve the page numbers in index, tables of contents, etc.
* Preserve information about all diacritical marks, sub-/superscripts and other special characters. Where possible, use the forms shown in the Proofing or Formatting Guidelines.
For more information about BAE projects, see the Uber-Project thread.
For everything else, refer to the Proofreading Guidelines and Formatting Guidelines.
BG1a.txt
Welcome New Volunteers!!
This is a BEGINNERS ONLY/FEEDBACK project. We have set this book aside for our newest proofreaders. You are doing the first of two proofing passes over these pages, making sure the words and punctuation in the text box match those in the scanned picture (or image) of the printed page. When the book has completed the first round of proofing, more experienced proofers will do a second round. They will send you some friendly suggestions if you are making any obvious beginner mistakes. Please only do a few pages (5-15) of this book, then move on to something else. It may be a week before feedback is sent to your DP inbox; so do work on another project that interests you while you're waiting!
Please note that the proofers who review your work only see one page at a time; they do not have an overview of all the pages you proof in this book. You might get similar comments from several proofers. Please excuse any repetition!
Following these two proofing rounds, these pages will move on to two rounds of formatting, where other volunteers will fine-tune the look of the page. They'll make sure that font variations (such as italics, bold, and small caps), spacing, indentation, footnotes, and the like are correctly marked. In the final stages, a post-processor will transform the proofed and formatted text into a readable e-book. If you wish to be notified when this text is posted to PG, click on the link above to request this.
BG1b.txt
BASIC INSTRUCTIONS:
Here are a few basic instructions. Please consult the Proofreading Guidelines to go beyond these basics.
Make the text look like the page image except as per below! That means leaving in the breaks at the ends of the lines, leaving spelling "mistakes", etc. Mostly your job is to fix mistakes left by the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. Compare the text carefully to the scanned image of the page, line by line (or word by word, or letter by letter). Please pay extra-close attention to punctuation, numbers, and words in ALL CAPS. Run a spell-check on your page, and verify that any queried words do, in fact, match the words in the scan. Please do NOT correct the word in the text if it is a true match to the word in the scan. Refer to the Proofreading Guidelines for more information on handling printers' errors and misspellings.
---1. If a line ends in a hyphenated word, move the first part of the following line up to rejoin the word, then insert a line break at the end of the rejoined word. Remove the hyphen unless it is a compound word normally hyphenated.
Scan Example:
"I say, Graham, do you know what's hap- pened today? There'll be an awful row about it."
Corrected Example:
"I say, Graham, do you know what's happened today? There'll be an awful row about it."
---2. Leave in (or add) the blank line between paragraphs. Do not add paragraph indentation, but if the indentation is present in the text box, it is not necessary to remove it.
Scan Example:
THE ship moved slowly out of the harbour as Tom Woodward slumped
in his seat and breathed a sigh of relief.
He turned to the package he had dropped next to him on the deck
and examined its label.
Corrected Example:
THE ship moved slowly out of the harbour as Tom Woodward slumped
in his seat and breathed a sigh of relief.
He turned to the package he had dropped next to him on the deck
and examined its label.
---3. Remove extra space around punctuation. Make it look like common usage today.
Scan Example:
The girl looked at him with tears in her eyes ; she began to cry.
Corrected Example:
The girl looked at him with tears in her eyes; she began to cry.
---4. Remove spaces in words with contractions like "don't" and "isn't"
Scan Example: "Do n't!" he cried. "You 'll ruin the whole thing!"
Corrected Example: "Don't!" he cried. "You'll ruin the whole thing!"
---5. Fix long dashes (em-dashes) by inserting additional hyphen character(s) if needed. Proofread these as two hyphens if the em-dash is short and four hyphens if the em-dash is long. If a line ends with a dash, move the first word of the following line up to "clothe the naked dash", then insert a line break following the word you just moved. See the Proofreading Guidelines for more details.
Scan Example:
He walked over to the window-a strange look on his face-
and tapped on the glass. "Susan!---- Over here!"
Corrected Example:
He walked over to the window--a strange look on his face--and
tapped on the glass. "Susan!----Over here!"
---6. If you have a page with a poem on it, read the Proofreading Guidelines, to see how to handle it. Set it off from surrounding text by inserting one blank line before and one blank line after the poem; it is not necessary to preserve indentation or attempt to center lines.
---7. Italics?, Small Caps? or Bold? If the text you are proofing includes italics mark-up (<i> and </i>), small caps mark-up (<sc> and </sc>) or bold mark-up (<b> and </b>) please leave the mark-up for the formatters to review and correct. Proofers are NOT expected to add or correct this mark-up.
---8. Page Headers and Footers: Running headers/footers may include book title, author, chapter title, and/or page number. They will be at the very top or bottom of the page. Remove these, including the page numbers. See the Proofreading Guidelines for an example.
---9. Illustrations? Read the Proofreading Guidelines! Proof the text of the captions, leaving the caption where it falls on the page. If the caption text was omitted from the OCR'ed text, please type it in.
--10. Footnotes? Read the Proofreading Guidelines! Leave the note where it falls on the page, and surround the footnote marker in the text with square brackets, i.e., [1] or [*].
--Most of all--Have fun!
SHARING INFORMATION, ASKING QUESTIONS, REPORTING PROBLEMS:
This site has an internal message system. Your personal page shows how many private messages are waiting in your inbox (in the dark green navbar). Please go to the forums and login to read your private messages from round 2 proofers. If you have questions that need a more immediate answer, please click on the "discuss this project" link above. That will take you to a forum thread that is specific to this project where you can see what other new people have asked and can get reasonably quick responses from experienced proofers. There are also several other forums that you may use to ask questions or make comments that are not project-specific, and still others designed for amusement.
This book scanned and OCR'd pretty cleanly, but if you notice recurring OCR errors, please post a message in the discussion forum (as described above). That way, we will be alert for them in post-processing.
THANK YOU FOR VOLUNTEERING AT DP, AND FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS BOOK!
BGr2.txt
Thanks to all the new volunteers who have worked on this book. This book has changed from a BEGINNERS ONLY project to a MENTORS project.
SECOND ROUND PROOFERS: Please be aware that I promised our new volunteers that "experienced proofers will do a second round. They will send you some friendly suggestions if you are making any obvious beginner mistakes." Remember that formatting issues, with only a very few exceptions, are now being handled in subsequent rounds. Please help by sending feedback and words of encouragement!
NOTE:You can find a list of which beginner has done which page, and the number of pages proofed by each, at the For Mentors page.
diac.txt
diacritical mark above below -------------------------- ------ ------ macron (straight line) [=x] [x=] 2 dots (diaresis or umlaut) [:x] [x:] 1 dot [.x] [x.] grave accent [\x] [x\] acute (?gu) accent [/x] [x/] circumflex [^x] [x^] caron (v-shaped symbol) [vx] [xv] breve (u-shaped symbol) [)x] [x)] tilde [~x] [x~] cedilla [,x] [x,]
If the diacritical mark is in Latin-1 (i.e. available from the pulldown list), enter it as one character.
pgnm.txt
PLEASE PRESERVE THE PAGE NUMBERS IN THE INDEX
port.txt
Please keep the original spelling. The OCR software has incorrectly "updated" some of the words.
Use the new guidelines for footnotes. Mark them as [1], [2], ... in the text. In the place of the page where you find the footnote text write [Footnote 1: text of footnote]
Por favor conserve a ortografia original. O software de reconhecimento de caracters "actualizou" incorrectamente algumas palavras. Use as novas regras para revis?o de notas de rodap?. Marque-as como [1], [2], ... no texto. No local onde est? o texto da nota de rodap? escreva [Footnote 1: texto da nota de rodap?]
Images and OCR supplied by the National Library of Portugal's Digital National Library project.
wrrn.txt
Last updated: 2004-03-26 (see changelog)
Contents
Use the links to skip to the section of your choice (or scroll as desired).
Keep Text as Close to Original as Possible!
We've had some mention of people changing things like "* * *" to "..." – Please do not make such substitutions! Please keep all text as close to the original as possible.
Copyrighted Materials
Some of the content in the Warren Report and its supporting evidentiary and testimonial volumes is still under copyright. As a result, we are not allowed to include this copyrighted material in Project Gutenberg. Most (if not all) of this material has been identified, and place-holders have been included in the page images to indicate where these copyrighted materials occur. If you come across any materials (e.g., photographs, movie stills, etc.) that you think may need to be removed, please post a comment in the project thread.
Crossed-Out Words
In some places, words have been crossed out, removed, or redacted in some other way. Please mark these in one of the following two ways:
- If the word is readable, please print the word and put a note after it like, [**word crossed out]
- If it is not readable, please just put a [**note] where it occurs.
Dashes
Recently the Proofing Guidelines changed so that all dashes are now represented by two hyphens (--). However, in the testimony, it is very clear that some dashes are longer than others. For longer dashes, please use four hyphens (----). Note that hyphens should still have only one hyphen (-).
Dialogue
The testimonial volumes are primarily dialogue. Please mark the speaker's names as bold (i.e., with <b> and </b> tags), like so:
<b>Mr. RANKIN.</b> Mrs. Oswald, did you write in Russian a story of your experiences in the United States? <b>Mrs. OSWALD.</b> Yes, I have. I think that you are familiar with it.
(Note: Please include the period inside the bold tags.)
Forms
The Commission Exhibits contain quite a few forms. The important thing when transcribing these forms is to get the information out of them; layout is not that important (except in some cases where the form might contain tabular data). There is an example in the Warren Commission UberProject thread on how forms can be transcribed: http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=62370#62370
Grayscale Images
Each text file in the Evidence volumes (XVI-XXVI) has a URL a grayscale image for that page. These URLs are there for your reference, to help you identify portions that may not be clear in the black & white version of the page. The grayscale images are hosted by Pluckerbooks.com. Pluckerbooks runs off d.maddock1's cablemodem connection, so please be nice. Also, because d.maddock1's ISP blocks port 80 (the standard HTTP port), the site runs off port 81, which means you may have trouble accessing the images from behind a firewall and/or proxy.
Non-Standard Formatting
Many of the exhibits (which are given in the later volumes) are things like forms and charts which will be very hard to format using only ASCII text. We just ask that you do your best. Don't worry about trying to make sure all the lines are exact – it's the text and meaning of the documents that are important.
Underlined Text
Some of the Commission Exhibits contain documents that have underlined text. The Proofing Guidelines say to mark underlined text similarly to italicized text; however, we would like for this project to have underlined text marked with <u< and </u< tags. For example:
Here is some underlined text.
Should be marked as:
Here is some <u>underlined</u> text.
Anything Else
Please jump over to the forums if you have any questions about anything else.
wrrn.txt Changelog
Below is a history of changes made to this set of notes.
2004-03-26
- Added notes on Form and link to example
- Removed following sections that applied to the Report only: Image Captions, Footnotes, Superscripts
- Reorganized sections
- Added linked TOC to sections
- Created changelog
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Back to Skeleton Templates| Special Instructions and Proofreading Notes: | |
| Special Instructions: | *****PUT YOUR SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS HERE***** |
| Notes: | *****PUT ANY NOTES TO THE PROOFREADERS HERE***** |
| Copyright Information: | *****PUT COPYRIGHT AND PRINTING INFORMATION HERE***** |
| Author Information: | |
| Date of Birth: | *****PUT BIRTHDATE AND PLACE HERE***** |
| Date of Death: | *****PUT DEATHDATE AND PLACE HERE***** |
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Biography: | *****PUT BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION HERE. I SUGGEST USING GOOGLE TO FIND INFORMATION. SOMETIMES THE JACKET COVER OF THE BOOK WILL HAVE A SHORT BIO AS WELL. REMEMBER, THE BOOK MAY HAVE BEEN PRINTED BEFORE THE AUTHOR DIED, SO PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THAT.***** |
| Books by This Author in PG: | |
| *****PUT OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR IN PG HERE. AT THE END OF EACH TITLE, PUT THE <br> TAG. EXAMPLE: BOOK BY THE AUTHOR ANOTHER BOOK PUT HALF OF THE TITLES HERE, | AND THE OTHER HALF OF THE TITLES HERE. I SUGGEST PUTTING THEM IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER WITH THE FIRST HALF IN THE FIRST COLUMN, AND THE SECOND HALF IN THE SECOND COLUMN.***** |
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