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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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Ross 1988 — re-typeset edition (work in progress)
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Re-typesetting Fiona Ross's 1988 SOAS Ph.D. thesis *The Evolution of the Printed Bengali
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Character from 1778 to 1978* from the ProQuest scan into a searchable PDF.
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## Quick start
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```sh
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make image # build the toolchain container (TeX Live/XeLaTeX, poppler, tesseract, python)
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make check # consistency checks
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make build # → ross-1988-retypeset.pdf (previous version archived in older-versions/)
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```
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Continue the conversion with Claude Code from this directory: it reads `CLAUDE.md`,
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`PLAN.md`, `CONTINUATION.md`; `/batch`, `/verify` and `/status` are provided in `.claude/commands/`.
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## Layout
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| Path | What |
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| `source/10731406.pdf` | the scan (ProQuest), untouched |
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| `src/preamble.tex`, `src/colophon.tex`, `src/pages/pNNNN.tex` | one file per original page (NNNN = PDF page) |
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| `plates/` | plate images cropped from the scan at native 300 dpi |
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| `fonts/` | Tiro Bangla (OFL) |
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| `tools/` | `prep.sh` (raster+OCR scaffold), `ocr2tex.py` (draft), `crop_plate.py`, `check.py` |
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| `manifest.tsv` | page-by-page ledger: PDF page → printed page, kind, status, file |
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| `PLAN.md` / `CONTINUATION.md` / `QUESTIONS.md` / `CLAUDE.md` | design · resume point · open readings · working rules |
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| `older-versions/` | every superseded PDF and preamble |
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| `scans/`, `work/` | scratch (regenerable; excluded from the archive) |
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