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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <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>
bdeshiandClaude Sonnet 5.5