% ross-thesis re-typeset — shared preamble
\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,oneside]{article}
\usepackage[letterpaper,top=1.05in,bottom=1.0in,left=1.25in,right=1.25in,headheight=14pt,headsep=0.35in,footskip=0.4in]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Liberation Serif}
\setsansfont{Liberation Sans}
\newfontfamily\bnfont{FreeSerif}[Script=Bengali]
\usepackage[Latin]{ucharclasses}   % (kept for future automatic Bengali fallback)
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{scrextend}   % addmargin
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[bookmarks,bookmarksnumbered=false,hidelinks,pdfusetitle]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{pdftitle={The Evolution of the Printed Bengali Character from 1778 to 1978},
            pdfauthor={Fiona Georgina Elisabeth Ross},
            pdfsubject={Ph.D. thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1988 (re-typeset edition)},
            pdfkeywords={Bengali, Bangla, typography, type design, printing history, Linotype, photocomposition}}

% ---- page-number-faithful page environment -------------------------------
% \origpage{N}  begins an output page carrying the ORIGINAL printed number N.
% Every original page maps to exactly one output page.
\newcommand{\origpage}[1]{\clearpage\setcounter{page}{#1}\hypertarget{page.#1}{}}
\pagestyle{fancy}\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhead[R]{\sffamily\bfseries\thepage}          % original: bold sans numeral, top right
\fancypagestyle{unnumbered}{\fancyhf{}\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}}

% ---- footnotes: \fn{n}{text} forces the ORIGINAL footnote number n -------
\newcommand{\fn}[2]{\setcounter{footnote}{\numexpr#1-1\relax}\footnote{#2}}
\renewcommand{\footnoterule}{\vspace*{4pt}}
\usepackage[hang,flushmargin,bottom]{footmisc}
\setlength{\footnotemargin}{1.4em}
\renewcommand{\footnotesize}{\fontsize{8.5}{10}\selectfont}

% ---- uncertain readings: rendered normally, but logged for user confirmation
\newwrite\unsurefile
\newcommand{\unsure}[1]{#1\write\unsurefile{p.\thepage: #1}}

% ---- section heads as in original (bold, centred, same size as text) -----
\newcommand{\chaphead}[1]{\begin{center}\bfseries #1\end{center}\vspace{0.6em}}
\newcommand{\subhead}[1]{\noindent\emph{#1}\par}

% ---- plates ----------------------------------------------------------------
% \plate{N}{file}{caption}: image fills text block; caption typeset small below.
\newcommand{\plate}[3]{%
  \begin{center}\vspace*{\fill}
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=0.86\textheight,keepaspectratio]{#2}
  \vspace*{\fill}\end{center}
  \vfill\noindent{\small #1. #3}\par}

\setstretch{1.45}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{0.9em}
\raggedbottom

% ---- contents / list-of-plates lines ----------------------------------------
% \tocl{indent}{label}{title}{page}  — page hyperlinked to page.N target
\newcommand{\pg}[1]{\hyperlink{page.#1}{#1}}
\newcommand{\tocl}[4]{\noindent\hspace*{#1}\makebox[0.55in][l]{#2}\parbox[t]{\dimexpr\textwidth-#1-0.55in-0.5in\relax}{\raggedright #3}\hfill\makebox[0.5in][r]{\pg{#4}}\par}
\newcommand{\toclnp}[3]{\noindent\hspace*{#1}\makebox[0.55in][l]{#2}\parbox[t]{\dimexpr\textwidth-#1-0.55in-0.5in\relax}{\raggedright #3}\par}
% \pl{no}{caption}{page} — list-of-plates entry
\newcommand{\pl}[3]{\noindent\makebox[0.35in][r]{#1.}\hspace{0.12in}\parbox[t]{\dimexpr\textwidth-0.35in-0.12in-0.5in\relax}{\raggedright #2}\hfill\makebox[0.5in][r]{\pg{#3}}\par}
% \ig{file} — inline glyph image cropped from the scan (for glyphs the original set as images)
\newcommand{\ig}[1]{\raisebox{-0.35ex}{\includegraphics[height=1.35em]{#1}}}
% \plx{no}{caption}{raw page cell} — as \pl but page cell is typeset verbatim
\newcommand{\plx}[3]{\noindent\makebox[0.35in][r]{#1.}\hspace{0.12in}\parbox[t]{\dimexpr\textwidth-0.35in-0.12in-0.9in\relax}{\raggedright #2}\hfill\makebox[0.9in][r]{#3}\par}