tepbc-ross-retyped/QUESTIONS.md

# Readings to confirm with Sammay

`\unsure{...}` marks a doubtful reading (logged to `unsure.log`). `\erratum{corrected}{as printed}`
corrects one of the original's own slips and lists it in the edition's Errata section.
`\qslip{as printed}` marks a suspected slip **inside quoted matter**: it is never corrected, because the
slip may belong to the quoted source rather than to Ross — it is logged to `qslips.log` and listed below so
it can be checked against the original source.

## Open
Nothing outstanding. The quotation-slip table below is for checking against the quoted
sources when convenient — it does not block anything.

## Suspected slips inside quotations — left exactly as printed, for checking against the source
Never corrected: the slip may belong to the quoted source rather than to Ross. Checking one means reading
the cited page, so the table records how far the source can be got at. **Five of them cannot be checked by
anybody outside the archives that hold them** — they are unpublished letters and trade documents, and for
those the entry here is the permanent record, not a task. (Attempted remotely 2026-09-14 and abandoned: the
full text of the early printed sources could not be reached reliably, and an unverified guess is worse than
an open row.)

### Published sources — checkable in a library
| Orig. page | As printed | Quoted source |
|---|---|---|
| 116 | *idolotrous* | Carey, *An Enquiry* (1792), p. 2 |
| 116 | *proponderance* | Potts, *British Baptist Missionaries*, p. 83 |
| 116 | *intially* | Potts, *British Baptist Missionaries*, p. 83 |
| 130 | *continous* | *First Report \ldots\ Native Schools* (1818), pp. 21-22 |
| 169 | *egregriously* | Halhed, *Grammar*, p. xxiii |
| 172 | *faithfull* | Ouseley, *Oriental Collections*, I (1797), advertisement |
| 208 | *tounge* | Gilbert & Rivington, *Lord's Prayer in Three Hundred Languages* (1891), Preface |
| 244 | *aquainted* | Rāma Kamala Sena, *A Dictionary in English and Bengalee* (Serampore, 1834), I, Preface |
| 246 | *professsional* | Pandey, *Indian Palaeography* (Benares, 1952), p. 93 |
| 308 | *Newpaper* | Vijayapaliah, *Introduction of Kannada on the … Linotype* (Bangalore, 1954), p. 3 |

### Unpublished — in the archives Ross consulted, and nowhere else
| Orig. page | As printed | Quoted source |
|---|---|---|
| 276 | *Pharamaceutical* | Majumdar to May, 14 Sept 1933, Mergenthaler Correspondence file no. 918 |
| 297 | *imposssible* | MC 918: King to Griffith, 4 Nov 1937 |
| 305 | *seperate* | LC 17A: Tracy to Martin, 3 Sept 1964 |
| 335 | *here* (for *there*) | Letter from David Saunders, 16 Dec 1986 |
| 353 | *compatability* | Stempel, *Information; Photocomp Type Faces* (January, 1980), Design Sizes |

(The page numbers in `qslips.log` can be one out — the mark it reads is the edition page's last one — so this
table is the authoritative record.)

## Diacritic sweep, 2026-09-15 — 9 corrections, ~54 of 84 flagged occurrences checked
Prompted by Sammay spotting that `Nastaʿlīq` on orig. p.47 showed a quote, not a ʿayn. Two nets over the
transcription: a **rare-character inventory** (U+02BF appeared exactly once in 431 pages — that singleton
was the tell) and a check for **names spelled with more than one accenting** (84 occurrences). Every flag
was read off the page image at 500–900 dpi; nothing was changed on the strength of the text layer.

**Corrected** (all verified against the image):

| PDF page | was | is |
|---|---|---|
| p0049 | `Nastaʿlīq` | `` Nasta`līq `` — the mark is a raised quote, as the typewriter had no ʿayn |
| p0072 | `Cálidás` | `Cálidās` — second mark is a macron, not an acute |
| p0256 | `Rajākṛṣṇa` | `Rājākṛṣṇa` — macron over both a's |
| p0260 ×2 | `Īsvaracandra` | `Īśvaracandra` — acute on the s was missing |
| p0430 | `Iśvaracandra` | `Īśvaracandra` — macron on the I was missing |
| p0430 ×2 | `Gītā` | `Gīta` |
| p0430 | `Munṣī` | `Munśī` — acute above the s, not a dot below |
| p0431 | `Rtusamhāra` | `Ṛtusaṃhāra` — both dots were missing |

**Two findings that explain most of the rest.** The typescript's **French accents are handwritten** — the
cedillas under *poinçons*, the acutes on *gravés*, *impériale*, *Napoléon*, the grave on *caractères* are
pen strokes, added inconsistently (one *Poinçons* on p.226 carries a hand cedilla, three others do not).
Each instance is reproduced as it stands. And in the **Bibliography the author gives a title in full
transliteration beside its anglicised form** — `Ānanda Bājāra Patrikā (Ananda Bazar Patrika)` — so most
Bibliography variants are hers. `Ṛtusaṃhāra` was catchable only because it broke that pattern.

**Still unchecked** (~30): `Giriśa` ×5 (PDF 11, 16, 244, 250, 251), `Bengālī` ×4 (10, 86, 196, 425),
`Bāṅgalī`/`Bāṅgālī` ×3 (8, 94), `Raphala`/`laphala` (324), `Gouye` (425), `Sarma`/`Poincons` (426),
`Rama` (428), `Bhagavat`/`Geeta` (423), `Pancanana` (108), `pratyūttara` (117), the two
Scheme-of-Transliteration rows (15). Each has a sibling occurrence already verified correct, and the last
five batches (~24 occurrences) found no errors, so the remaining yield looks low — but it is not zero, and
these are unchecked, not cleared. `Vyākarana` (255) is the authorial inconsistency the colophon already
cites as deliberately kept; leave it.

**Limitation worth keeping in view.** Both nets depend on *inconsistency*. A name transcribed the same
wrong way everywhere passes both silently — `Bhăgavăt-Gēētā` was only checked because its rare breves
tripped the character inventory. So the flagged cases are clean; the diacritics as a whole are not proven.

## Re-scan against the source, 2026-09-29
Every text page re-read by two independent OCR engines (tesseract at 300 dpi, with and without its dictionary,
and the scan's own ABBYY layer), plus Apple Vision as a tie-breaker, compared word for word with `src/pages`; the
OCR is a detector only — each difference was settled on the page image at 300–600 dpi. **Five real mismatches,
all fixed:** three were silent normalisations of the author's slips (*precusor* p.79, *inaugaration* p.294,
handwritten *twelth* p.58 — now `\erratum`s, so the Errata section has 54 entries), and two were my punctuation
slips (p.56 `design:` typed `;`, p.230 `Gottschall.` typed `,`). Everything else that differed was OCR error,
a known erratum, or a handwritten correction (the unlogged ones are added above). Also confirmed: no line or word
of the scan is missing from the transcription; all 949 footnote-mark positions read off the image; every plate
caption present. **Not covered:** diacritics (no engine reads them), italics, and punctuation both engines drop.

## Resolved
- **p.295 *compliments* and p.348's dropped *to* join the Errata** (Sammay, 2026-09-14). This overturns the
  p.84 precedent for these two: a word-choice slip and a dropped word are corrected and listed like a
  misspelling. p.84's own agreement slip is left bare — it was ruled on separately and the
  reading there is the author's grammar, not a slip of the typewriter.
- **Errata boundary: slips inside quotations stay as printed** and are listed above for verification against
  the source (Sammay, 2026-09-13). Ross's own slips continue to be corrected and listed in the Errata section.
- **p.84 (PDF 86), note 149** — the agreement slip (“the characters \ldots\ shows greater skill”) stands
  **as printed and unmarked** (Sammay, 2026-09-14). An editorial `[sic]` was added on 2026-09-13 and has been
  removed: the edition sets it in the author's own notation (italic *sic* in upright brackets), so a reader
  could not have told the one editorial interpolation from her seven. Those seven — orig. pp. 47, 105, 106,
  107, 169, 203, 307 (PDF 49, 107, 108, 109, 171, 205, 309), all inside quoted matter — were each checked
  against the page image and are the author's. **The edition now interpolates nothing into the text.**
- **p.50 (PDF 52), note 67** — the handwritten square brackets round the typed parenthesis are ignored; the note
  is set exactly as typed (Sammay, 2026-09-13).
- **Bengali: modern type is text, historical specimens are images** (Sammay, 2026-09-13). Bengali that shows the
  modern script — the Scheme of Transliteration on p.13 — is set in Tiro Bangla. Bengali that shows a historical
  typeface is cut from the scan and set with `\ig`: that now includes the two CW1 sorts in the List of Plates
  (p.5, item 18) and in plate 18's caption (p.55), which were previously typed as Tiro text.
- **p.5 item 18 / p.55 plate 18** — the two glyphs are জ and ত (Sammay, 2026-09-13); both are now set as cut images.
- **Errata policy** — the author's own slips are corrected and listed in the Errata section; PLAN.md's Editorial
  row records it. Thirteen entries: p.10 *Navarnārī*, p.20 *Orientalisch und*, p.25 *distiguish*, p.32 *Gento*,
  p.36 the unclosed parenthesis, p.39 `n.d.),p. 2.`, p.49 *Advertisments*, p.113 *twelth*, p.115 *Charaters*,
  p.117 *intitiate*, p.123 *possibilites*, p.127 *accomodates*, p.132 *newpaper*.
- **Inline type specimens are images** — cut by `tools/crop_inline.py`, set with `\ig` at native size.
- **p.10, item 113** — *Navarnārī* → *Navanārī*.
- **p.5, item 5 / p.7, item 62 / p.12, item 173** — handwritten carets adopted (*Dissertationes Selectae*,
  *Dharmaniyama*, *Granthanavibhāga*).
- **p.7, item 49** — “(Serampore, 1832)” italic in the original; kept as printed.
- **p.136 (PDF 138), plate 52 caption** — the imprint date is printed `(Calcutta, 182 )`, final digit missing in
  the original; left exactly as printed.
- **Handwritten corrections adopted** (rule 3 — silently, not errata): p.19 *skillfully* → *skilfully*; p.17 n.16
  inserted “x” giving *Reflexions*; p.26 *difficuties* → *difficulties*; p.47 n.53 “a contemporary of”;
  p.58 n.94 marginal addition; p.65 *homogenous* → *homogeneous*; p.70 “from” inserted; p.104 *activites* →
  *activities*; p.105 “favour of”; p.108 struck *e* giving *Mātiura* (twice) and “complete” inserted;
  p.132 “Junior” inserted; p.211 “Figgins's” inserted before ‘Pica Bengalee’; p.217 cedilla giving
  *poinçons*; p.219 n.27 an “l” giving *appellations*; p.224 a struck letter giving *preceding*, a letter
  completing *principal*, and a cedilla giving *Poinçons*; p.226 cedillas giving *Poinçons* (three times)
  and accents on *gravés* and *Hénaffe*; p.232 “the” inserted before *whole*; p.233 an umlaut giving
  *erbländischen*; p.238 an “e” giving *abgenommene*; p.248 *susceptible* inserted; p.271 *metal*
  inserted and an “m” giving *accommodated*; p.283 and p.284 an “m” giving *accommodate*; p.286 an “r”
  giving *occurred* and “on” completing *phenomenon*; p.318 n.27 “and see above, p. 267” added; p.323 an
  “h” giving *rhythm*; p.331 *from* inserted; p.336 an “n” giving *manufacturers*; p.340 *same* inserted at
  the page head; p.347 and p.349 an “m”/“n” giving *accommodate* and *implemented*; p.352 an “m” and an
  “r” giving *accommodate* and *repertoire*; p.359 an “i” giving *compatibility* and a struck letter giving
  *benefited*; p.362 a struck letter giving *benefited*; p.366 an “n” giving *fonts* and an “i” giving
  *facilities* (n.13); p.389 an “s” giving *newspaper* and an “r” giving *occurring*.
  Added by the re-scan of 2026-09-29 (all checked at 600 dpi): p.19 “es” giving *Dissertationes*; p.110 a struck letter
  giving *Qayyum*; p.153 a struck letter giving *Townsend* and “ar” giving *contemporaries*; p.164 *shortcoming*
  written into a blank gap; p.170 and p.248 a struck letter giving *benefited*; p.171 the note “Principally in
  England.” (set as note 1); p.172 a transposition giving *Persian*; p.188 an “n” giving *indigenous* and an “m”
  giving *accommodate*; p.193 an “a” giving *available*; p.366 an “i” giving *facilities* in the text as well as in
  n.13; p.425 “es” giving *Dissertationes*.
- **p.42 (PDF 44), n.39** — the mark before “acquired” is ink blotting, not a caret.
- **Library ownership stamps are not reproduced** (Sammay, 2026-09-14): they record that the *physical copy*
  belonged to a library, which is not true of this edition. That covers the University of London stamp below
  the notes on p.49 (PDF 51), the `BIBL. LONDIN. UNIV.` stamp under the last page of the Bibliography
  (p.429, PDF 431), and the accession stamp 20618054 on the scan's blank leaf 3. Graphic elements that belong
  to the *document* — the ProQuest logo on the provenance leaf — are kept. Corrected 2026-09-14: the mark on
  the title page, carried in `src/pages/p0001.tex` as `plates/seal-p0001.png`, is not the School's seal but a
  fourth `BIBL. LONDIN. UNIV.` stamp. It is dropped with the rest, and the claim in `src/colophon.tex` that a
  seal was kept is gone with it.
- **Text face**: **XCharter** since 2026-09-15 (Sammay), replacing TeX Gyre ScholaX, which read as too decorative; the metrics bear that out (x-height/cap 0.645 vs 0.717). Tiro Bangla needs no explicit `Scale`: `MatchLowercase` re-derives it from the main font, and the measured Bengali-to-Latin ratio held at 2.12 -> 2.08 across the switch. ScholaX was itself added to the Dockerfile on 2026-09-14. (This closes the old
  open question about a more readable face.)
- **p.141 (PDF 143), plate 57** — the label is **VF1** (a Vincent Figgins fount), settled by the author's own
  note 132 on p.143.