Two independent OCR engines (tesseract, ABBYY) were compared word for word
with src/pages, then every difference was settled on the page image.
Three silent normalisations of the author's slips become errata (51 -> 54):
precusor (p.79), inaugaration (p.294), and the handwritten marginal note's
twelth (p.58). Two punctuation slips of the transcription are corrected to
the scan: p.56 'design:' (was ';') and p.230 'Gottschall.' (was ',').
QUESTIONS.md logs the twelve handwritten corrections that were adopted but
never recorded, and the scope of the re-scan (diacritics and italics were
not covered).
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Includes what remains unchecked and why the remaining yield looks low,
plus the limitation both nets share: they key on inconsistency, so a name
transcribed the same wrong way throughout passes silently.
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ScholaX read as too decorative (Sammay), and the font metrics agree: of
the faces considered it sets the smallest lowercase relative to its
capitals — x-height/cap 0.645 against XCharter's 0.717 — so its caps and
ascenders dominate while the lowercase does the reading.
Chosen on measured grounds, not taste alone. All 35 non-ASCII characters
this text uses are covered; the dots-below transliteration set
(ḍ ḥ ṃ ṅ ṇ Ṛ ṛ ṣ ṭ) disqualifies ETbb, Domitian, STEP and Tempora, which
are otherwise reasonable book faces. Real small caps and oldstyle figures
confirmed present, so the acronym setting is unaffected. XCharter ships
with TeX Live, so no font is added. Erewhon was the runner-up until the
metrics showed its x-height is smaller than the current face, which would
have moved readability the wrong way.
Bengali needed no manual adjustment: Scale=MatchLowercase re-derives Tiro
Bangla from the main font's x-height, and the Bengali-to-Latin height
ratio measured off the Scheme of Transliteration held at 2.12 -> 2.08
across the switch, within the ±1px noise of a 300 dpi read.
455 pages, down from 470. Underfull boxes 123 -> 84: XCharter's narrower
set gives the line-breaker more room at the same measure. Zero overfull,
zero font warnings, reprocheck 0 tokens short.
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Eight diacritic corrections at seven sites, each verified against the page
image at 900 dpi:
p0049 Nastaʿlīq -> Nasta`līq the mark is a quote, not a ʿayn (Sammay)
p0072 Cálidás -> Cálidās
p0256 Rajākṛṣṇa -> Rājākṛṣṇa
p0260 Īsvaracandra -> Īśvaracandra (x2)
p0430 Iśvaracandra -> Īśvaracandra
p0430 Gītā -> Gīta (x2)
p0430 Munṣī -> Munśī
Found by two nets over the transcription: a rare-character inventory
(U+02BF appeared exactly once in 431 pages — the tell) and a check for
names that appear with more than one accenting, 84 occurrences of which
~32 are now checked. Neither net catches a name mis-transcribed the SAME
way everywhere, so this is a partial sweep, not a clean bill.
The French accents are all handwritten additions in the scan — pen-drawn
cedillas and acutes — applied inconsistently by the author and reproduced
per instance. All of that cluster checks out.
Clickable regions now carry a 0.4pt hairline rule in RGB(95,125,165) on
the Contents/List-of-Plates page numbers and on resolved cross-references;
endnote superscripts and whole-line entries stay unmarked. polish.py emits
\xref for the former and \hyperlink for the latter so the two differ.
Also: plate 1's List-of-Plates entry uses \plx, which build_maps() did not
scan, so plate 1 was the one plate of 178 whose "pl. 1" references never
linked.
build.sh takes an atomic mkdir lock: two builds sharing work/ corrupt
main.aux and produce an error that names the wrong file entirely.
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Four plates overhung the measure and displaced into the right margin.
On those pages the original interrupts a displayed quotation with a
plate (p0129/30/31/32, p0217/18, p0386/87), so \plateop ran inside
extract's \addmargin, where the paragraph is set by \parshape to
\linewidth — while the minipage was built at \textwidth. The quotation
indents 0.5in + 0.3in, so the overhang was exactly 0.8in, which is also
\marginparwidth; that coincidence made it look like a marginnote fault
for a long time. \plateop, \plate and \fig now build at \linewidth,
correct in any context and unchanged on the other 174 plates.
Also: \mdseries on the three \bnsignfont cells of the Scheme of
Transliteration, which inherited the table's \bfseries and asked for a
bold Tiro Bangla that does not exist.
The build log is now clean — no overfull boxes, no font warnings. The
remaining underfulls are the documented cost of ragged right with
hyphenation off.
Docs: PLAN.md's Type row carried four stale values (11pt, 5.2in measure,
leading 1.22, hyphenation on) and now records the measured leading and
its derivation; CLAUDE.md's macro table documents \chapstart's optional
short title and \toclnp; QUESTIONS.md splits the quotation slips by
whether the source can be consulted at all — five are unpublished
archive material and are a record, not a task.
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A searchable, re-typeset edition of Fiona Ross, "The Evolution of the
Printed Bengali Character from 1778 to 1978" (Ph.D., SOAS, 1988),
transcribed from the 431-leaf ProQuest scan. All 431 pages done; 178
plates and 410 inline type specimens cut from the scan; 51 errata.
Tracked: the transcription (src/pages), the preamble and its typographic
decisions, the cut images (plates/ — not reliably regenerable, the crop
specs for the inline cuts were never scripted), tools, and the four
working documents.
Not tracked: the built PDF, which `make` remakes from src/ and plates/;
the ProQuest scan under source/, which is third-party and needed only by
`make prep` and `make plate`; scans/ and work/, both regenerable.
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