The cover is a full-bleed mosaic of historical Bengali types filling the word
ব্যঞ্জণ, produced by tools/gen_cover_mosaic.py from plates/ and fonts/ alone
(build.sh remakes it if missing). It is static, so ebook readers can cache it.
The mark on the About this edition page is drawn by tools/gen_seal.py, seeded
from a SHA-256 of src/ (never the build's own outputs), so it changes exactly
when the transcription does. The colophon is shortened to name the cover
typefaces and the mark's mechanism, and drops the trailing ProQuest note.
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The scan is a bilevel 300 dpi JBIG2 layer plus lower-resolution colour, so
storing every plate as 8-bit PNG only added size. tools/optimize_plates.py
writes copies under work/plates-opt (bilevel to generic-mode, lossless JBIG2;
genuine halftone to JPEG q88) and repoints work/pages at them; plates/ and
src/ are untouched. The Dockerfile builds jbig2enc and adds qpdf, ghostscript
and img2pdf.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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