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Four plates overhung the measure and displaced into the right margin. On those pages the original interrupts a displayed quotation with a plate (p0129/30/31/32, p0217/18, p0386/87), so \plateop ran inside extract's \addmargin, where the paragraph is set by \parshape to \linewidth — while the minipage was built at \textwidth. The quotation indents 0.5in + 0.3in, so the overhang was exactly 0.8in, which is also \marginparwidth; that coincidence made it look like a marginnote fault for a long time. \plateop, \plate and \fig now build at \linewidth, correct in any context and unchanged on the other 174 plates. Also: \mdseries on the three \bnsignfont cells of the Scheme of Transliteration, which inherited the table's \bfseries and asked for a bold Tiro Bangla that does not exist. The build log is now clean — no overfull boxes, no font warnings. The remaining underfulls are the documented cost of ragged right with hyphenation off. Docs: PLAN.md's Type row carried four stale values (11pt, 5.2in measure, leading 1.22, hyphenation on) and now records the measured leading and its derivation; CLAUDE.md's macro table documents \chapstart's optional short title and \toclnp; QUESTIONS.md splits the quotation slips by whether the source can be consulted at all — five are unpublished archive material and are a record, not a task. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ross 1988 — re-typeset edition (work in progress)
Re-typesetting Fiona Ross's 1988 SOAS Ph.D. thesis The Evolution of the Printed Bengali Character from 1778 to 1978 from the ProQuest scan into a searchable PDF.
Quick start
make image # build the toolchain container (TeX Live/XeLaTeX, poppler, tesseract, python)
make check # consistency checks
make build # → ross-1988-retypeset.pdf (previous version archived in older-versions/)
Continue the conversion with Claude Code from this directory: it reads CLAUDE.md,
PLAN.md, CONTINUATION.md; /batch, /verify and /status are provided in .claude/commands/.
Layout
| Path | What |
|---|---|
source/10731406.pdf |
the scan (ProQuest), untouched |
src/preamble.tex, src/colophon.tex, src/pages/pNNNN.tex |
one file per original page (NNNN = PDF page) |
plates/ |
plate images cropped from the scan at native 300 dpi |
fonts/ |
Tiro Bangla (OFL) |
tools/ |
prep.sh (raster+OCR scaffold), ocr2tex.py (draft), crop_plate.py, check.py |
manifest.tsv |
page-by-page ledger: PDF page → printed page, kind, status, file |
PLAN.md / CONTINUATION.md / QUESTIONS.md / CLAUDE.md |
design · resume point · open readings · working rules |
older-versions/ |
every superseded PDF and preamble |
scans/, work/ |
scratch (regenerable; excluded from the archive) |