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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 thesis — re-typeset edition: plan (v2, confirmed 2026-09-13)
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Source: `10731406.pdf` — Fiona G. E. Ross, *The Evolution of the Printed Bengali
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Character from 1778 to 1978*, Ph.D., SOAS, 1988. ProQuest scan, 431 PDF pages,
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300 dpi bitonal (a few plates in colour), ABBYY text layer (NOT used as source).
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## Confirmed design
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| Aspect | Decision |
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| Layout | **Reflowed** text. `\origpage{N}` marks where original page N begins: bold sans number in the outer margin + thin bar in the line + `page.N` hyper-target. Running head shows the original page range on each edition page; edition page number in the footer |
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| Notes | Footnotes become **endnotes** (enotez) in a final *Notes* section, grouped "Notes to <Chapter>", keeping original numbers via `\fn{n}{text}`; marks link to notes, notes link back |
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| Type | 11pt **TeX Gyre ScholaX** (Century Schoolbook) on a 5.2in measure (≈70 characters a line); Liberation Sans for marks and heads; leading 1.22; **ragged right** (ragged2e `\RaggedRight`, hyphenation on); hanging punctuation (microtype protrusion, dashes hang far less); widows and orphans forbidden with `\raggedbottom`. **Tiro Bangla** for Bengali that shows the modern script (the Scheme of Transliteration). Bengali that shows a **historical** typeface is never typed: it is cut from the scan by `tools/crop_inline.py` and set with `\ig` at native size |
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| Structure | `\chapstart{Title}` = new page + centred bold head + PDF bookmark + notes group. One `.tex` per original page in `src/pages/pNNNN.tex` (NNNN = PDF page); `\chapstart` must come *before* `\origpage` in a file |
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| Plates | Cropped from the 300 dpi scan by `tools/crop_plate.py` (scanner bars, page number, caption stripped; gutter shadow swept; deskewed when the page is out of square — the one step that resamples), embedded lossless at native resolution. `\plateop{N}{no}{img}{caption}` for a plate that begins page N; `\plate{no}{img}{caption}` otherwise. Per-page crop recipe recorded in the manifest `notes` column |
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| Colophon | `src/colophon.tex` = leaf 2: description of the conversion + ProQuest notice text. Blank stamped leaf (PDF p.3) dropped and noted there |
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| Editorial | Original spelling and typography stand. **Handwritten corrections** in the scan are adopted silently and logged in QUESTIONS.md. **The author's own slips** are corrected via `\erratum{corrected}{as printed}` and listed in the Errata section. **Slips inside quoted matter** are never corrected — mark `\qslip{as printed}` and table them in QUESTIONS.md so they can be checked against the source. A grammatical slip stands, with an editorial `[sic]`. All confirmed by Sammay, 2026-09-13. The three typographic intentions the typewriter could not realise — en-dashes for numeric ranges, true quotation marks, small caps for institutional acronyms — are applied at set time by `tools/polish.py`; the transcription itself stays as typed (Sammay, 2026-09-13) |
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| Uncertain | `\unsure{...}` → `unsure.log` → QUESTIONS.md; never silently guessed |
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| Contents | Contents and List-of-Plates entries are whole-line hyperlinks to the original page target (`page.N`) |
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| Versioning | **Git** (from 2026-09-14, Sammay). The built PDF is not tracked and not archived — `make` regenerates it from `src/` and `plates/`. The ProQuest scan (`source/`) is untracked too, being third-party; only `make prep` and `make plate` need it. Superseded design drafts stay in `older-versions/` as text |
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## Workflow per batch
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1. `tools/prep.sh A B` → `scans/hi-NNN.jpg` (130 dpi) + `work/ocr/pNNNN.txt` (tesseract scaffold).
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2. Read every page image. For clean prose pages `tools/ocr2tex.py N printed [--head T]` gives a draft; proofread word-by-word against the image, add `\emph`, `\fn`, diacritics.
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3. Plates: `python3 tools/crop_plate.py NNNN` then a one-line `\plateop` file.
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4. Update `manifest.tsv`; `./build.sh`; spot-check.
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## Remaining
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Introduction pp.17–30 (PDF 19–32) → Part I from p.31 (PDF 33) … Bibliography p.419 (PDF 421) → end (PDF 431). ~245 text + ~170 plate pages: ~10–12 sessions.
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