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 Five of them cannot be checked by anybody outside the archives that hold them — they are unpublished letters and trade documents, and for those the entry here is the permanent record, not a task.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Unpublished — in the archives Ross consulted, and nowhere else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.)

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 keeps its editorial [sic] — 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, with an editorial [sic] added (Sammay, 2026-09-13). This is the edition's only editorial insertion 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.
• 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: TeX Gyre ScholaX, added to the Dockerfile and in use since 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.