The following editorial interventions have been made in the transcriptions of the cookbooks.
- Archaic spelling and punctuation have been retained. Alternate spellings
have been supplied to facilitate search and have been tagged as <alt> with
the attribute of the "synonym" value containing the alternate
spelling of the word.
- Line breaks have not been retained. Ambiguous end-of-line hyphens have
been retained, even across a page break. Unambiguous end-of-line hyphens
have been dropped. When an unambiguous hyphen divides a word across two
pages, the hyphen has been dropped and the trailing part of the word moved
from
the top of the second page and joined to the leading part of the word
at the bottom of the first page. The page break is then inserted before
the
first full word of the second page.
- Words which differ in type style from the surrounding text (bold, italic,
or ornate scripts) have been noted.
- Initial capitals which are simply larger in size than the surrounding
text have been transcribed without special tagging. Decorative initial
capitals
have been treated twice: first tagged as an <illustration> and then
rendered as part of the transcription. This ensures that the text is still
readable if illustrations are not displayed as inline graphics.
- Running heads and page numbers have not been transcribed. Page numbers
or page identifications have been used as the "n" attribute of
the <pb> tag. (For example, <pb n="72"> or <pb n="title
page">) Signature marks (inserted by the printer to correctly assemble
the folded and gathered pages) have not been transcribed.
- Inscriptions have been transcribed if they appear to be contemporary
with the original publication of the book. Book plates have also been transcribed,
but inscriptions such as prices, call numbers and inventory numbers which
appear to have been added later by librarians or bookdealers have been
ignored.
- Footnotes whose text extends across more than one page have been consolidated
into a single note.
- Illustrations have been been noted with the <illustration> tag.
Decorative typographic devices have also been noted if they can be said
to depict some
recognizable object. For example, a small row of flowers would be tagged
as a figure, but a plain horizontal rule would not, though either might
have been used to signal the end of a chapter.
- Blank pages have been ignored in the transcriptions. Images of the blank
pages were created as part of the preservation copy of each book but
have been dropped from the sequence of page images for the convenience
of the
reader.