User:Solol/Fr Sandbox/Formatting Summary
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Warning
This is a draft of the revised formatting guidelines. When formatting at PGDP you should use the current formatting guidelines located here. |
| Formatting Guidelines |
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| Formatting Summary |
| Formatting on the Character Level |
| Formatting on the Paragraph Level |
| Formatting on the Page Level |
| Miscellany |
| Common Problems |
| Index |
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The Primary Rule
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"Don't change what the author wrote!"
The final electronic book seen by a reader, possibly many years in the future, should accurately convey the intent of the author. If the author spelled words oddly, we leave them spelled that way. If the author wrote outrageous racist or biased statements, we leave them that way. If the author put italics, bold text, or a footnote every third word, we mark them italicized, bold, or footnoted. If something in the text does not match the original page image, you should change the text so that it does match. (See Printer's Errors for proper handling of obvious misprints.)
We do change minor typographical conventions that don't affect the sense of what the author wrote. For example, we move illustration captions if necessary so that they only appear between paragraphs (Illustrations). Changes such as these help us produce a consistently formatted version of the book. The rules we follow are designed to achieve this result. Please carefully read the rest of these Guidelines with this concept in mind. These guidelines are intended for formatting only. The proofreaders matched the image's content, and now as a formatter you match the image's look.
To assist the next formatter and the post-processor, we also preserve line breaks. This allows them to easily compare the lines in the text to the lines in the image.
Summary Guidelines
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The Formatting Summary is a short, 2-page printer-friendly (.pdf) document that summarizes the main points of these Guidelines and gives examples of how to format. Beginning formatters are encouraged to print out this document and keep it handy while formatting.
You may need to download and install a .pdf reader. You can get one free from Adobe® here.
About This Document
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This document is written to explain the formatting rules we use to maintain consistency when formatting a single book that is distributed among many formatters, each of whom is working on different pages. This helps us all do formatting the same way, which in turn makes it easier for the post-processor to eventually combine all these pages into one e-book.
It is not intended as any kind of a general editorial or typesetting rulebook.
We've included in this document all the items that new users have asked about formatting. There is a separate set of Proofreading Guidelines. If you come across a situation and you do not find a reference in these guidelines, it is likely that it was handled in the proofreading rounds and so is not mentioned here. If you aren't sure, please ask about it in the Project Discussion.
If there are any items missing, or items that you consider should be done differently, or if something is vague, please let us know. This document is a work in progress. Help us to improve it by posting your suggested changes in the Documentation Forum in this thread.
Each Page is a Separate Unit
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Since each project is distributed among many formatters, each of whom is working on different pages, there is no guarantee that you will see the next page of the project. With this in mind, be sure to open and close all markup tags on each page. This will make it easier for the post-processor to eventually combine all these pages into one e-book.
Project Comments
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When you select a project for formatting, the Project Page is loaded. On this page there is a section called "Project Comments" containing information specific to that project (book). Read these before you start formatting pages! If the Project Manager wants you to format something in this book differently from the way specified in these Guidelines, that will be noted here. Instructions in the Project Comments override the rules in these Guidelines, so follow them. (This is also where the Project Manager may give you interesting tidbits of information about the author or the project.)
Please also read the Project Thread (discussion): The Project Manager may clarify project-specific guidelines here, and it is often used by volunteers to alert other volunteers to recurring issues within the project and how they can best be addressed. (See below.)
On the Project Page, the link 'Images, Pages Proofread, & Differences' allows you to see how other volunteers have made changes. This forum thread discusses different ways to use this information.
Forum/Discuss This Project
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On the Project Page where you start formatting pages, on the line "Forum", there is a link titled "Discuss this Project" (if the discussion has already started), or "Start a discussion on this Project" (if it hasn't). Clicking on that link will take you to a thread in the projects forum dedicated to this specific project. That is the place to ask questions about this book, inform the Project Manager about problems, etc. Using this project forum thread is the recommended way to communicate with the Project Manager and other volunteers who are working on this book.
Fixing Errors on Previous Pages
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The Project Page contains links to pages from this project that you have recently worked on. (If you haven't formatted any pages yet, no links will be shown.)
Pages listed under either "DONE" or "IN PROGRESS" are available to make corrections or to finish formatting. Just click on the link to the page. Thus, if you discover that you made a mistake on a page or marked something incorrectly, you can click on that page here and reopen it to fix the error.
You may also use the "Images, Pages Proofread, & Differences" or "Just My Pages" links on the Project Page. These pages will display an "Edit" link next to the pages you have worked on in the current round that can still be corrected.
For more detailed information, refer to either the Standard Proofreading Interface Help or the Enhanced Proofreading Interface Help, depending on which interface you are using.