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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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# Readings to confirm with Sammay
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`\unsure{...}` marks a doubtful reading (logged to `unsure.log`). `\erratum{corrected}{as printed}`
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corrects one of the original's own slips and lists it in the edition's Errata section.
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`\qslip{as printed}` marks a suspected slip **inside quoted matter**: it is never corrected, because the
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slip may belong to the quoted source rather than to Ross — it is logged to `qslips.log` and listed below so
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it can be checked against the original source.
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## Open
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Nothing outstanding. The quotation-slip table below is for checking against the quoted
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sources when convenient — it does not block anything.
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## Suspected slips inside quotations — left exactly as printed, for checking against the source
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| Orig. page | As printed | Quoted source |
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|---|---|---|
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| 116 | *idolotrous* | Carey, *An Enquiry* (1792), p. 2 |
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| 116 | *proponderance* | Potts, *British Baptist Missionaries*, p. 83 |
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| 116 | *intially* | Potts, *British Baptist Missionaries*, p. 83 |
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| 130 | *continous* | *First Report \ldots\ Native Schools* (1818), pp. 21-22 |
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| 169 | *egregriously* | Halhed, *Grammar*, p. xxiii |
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| 172 | *faithfull* | Ouseley, *Oriental Collections*, I (1797), advertisement |
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| 208 | *tounge* | Gilbert & Rivington, *Lord's Prayer in Three Hundred Languages* (1891), Preface |
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| 244 | *aquainted* | Rāma Kamala Sena, *A Dictionary in English and Bengalee* (Serampore, 1834), I, Preface |
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| 246 | *professsional* | Pandey, *Indian Palaeography* (Benares, 1952), p. 93 |
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| 276 | *Pharamaceutical* | Majumdar to May, 14 Sept 1933, Mergenthaler Correspondence file no. 918 |
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| 297 | *imposssible* | MC 918: King to Griffith, 4 Nov 1937 |
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| 305 | *seperate* | LC 17A: Tracy to Martin, 3 Sept 1964 |
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| 308 | *Newpaper* | Vijayapaliah, *Introduction of Kannada on the … Linotype* (Bangalore, 1954), p. 3 |
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| 335 | *here* (for *there*) | Letter from David Saunders, 16 Dec 1986 |
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| 353 | *compatability* | Stempel, *Information; Photocomp Type Faces* (January, 1980), Design Sizes |
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(The page numbers in `qslips.log` can be one out — the mark it reads is the edition page's last one — so this
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table is the authoritative record.)
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## Resolved
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- **p.295 *compliments* and p.348's dropped *to* join the Errata** (Sammay, 2026-09-14). This overturns the
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p.84 precedent for these two: a word-choice slip and a dropped word are corrected and listed like a
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misspelling. p.84's own agreement slip keeps its editorial `[sic]` — it was ruled on separately and the
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reading there is the author's grammar, not a slip of the typewriter.
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- **Errata boundary: slips inside quotations stay as printed** and are listed above for verification against
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the source (Sammay, 2026-09-13). Ross's own slips continue to be corrected and listed in the Errata section.
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- **p.84 (PDF 86), note 149** — the agreement slip (“the characters \ldots\ shows greater skill”) stands, with an
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editorial `[sic]` added (Sammay, 2026-09-13). This is the edition's only editorial insertion into the text.
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- **p.50 (PDF 52), note 67** — the handwritten square brackets round the typed parenthesis are ignored; the note
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is set exactly as typed (Sammay, 2026-09-13).
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- **Bengali: modern type is text, historical specimens are images** (Sammay, 2026-09-13). Bengali that shows the
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modern script — the Scheme of Transliteration on p.13 — is set in Tiro Bangla. Bengali that shows a historical
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typeface is cut from the scan and set with `\ig`: that now includes the two CW1 sorts in the List of Plates
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(p.5, item 18) and in plate 18's caption (p.55), which were previously typed as Tiro text.
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- **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.
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- **Errata policy** — the author's own slips are corrected and listed in the Errata section; PLAN.md's Editorial
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row records it. Thirteen entries: p.10 *Navarnārī*, p.20 *Orientalisch und*, p.25 *distiguish*, p.32 *Gento*,
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p.36 the unclosed parenthesis, p.39 `n.d.),p. 2.`, p.49 *Advertisments*, p.113 *twelth*, p.115 *Charaters*,
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p.117 *intitiate*, p.123 *possibilites*, p.127 *accomodates*, p.132 *newpaper*.
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- **Inline type specimens are images** — cut by `tools/crop_inline.py`, set with `\ig` at native size.
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- **p.10, item 113** — *Navarnārī* → *Navanārī*.
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- **p.5, item 5 / p.7, item 62 / p.12, item 173** — handwritten carets adopted (*Dissertationes Selectae*,
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*Dharmaniyama*, *Granthanavibhāga*).
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- **p.7, item 49** — “(Serampore, 1832)” italic in the original; kept as printed.
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- **p.136 (PDF 138), plate 52 caption** — the imprint date is printed `(Calcutta, 182 )`, final digit missing in
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the original; left exactly as printed.
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- **Handwritten corrections adopted** (rule 3 — silently, not errata): p.19 *skillfully* → *skilfully*; p.17 n.16
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inserted “x” giving *Reflexions*; p.26 *difficuties* → *difficulties*; p.47 n.53 “a contemporary of”;
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p.58 n.94 marginal addition; p.65 *homogenous* → *homogeneous*; p.70 “from” inserted; p.104 *activites* →
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*activities*; p.105 “favour of”; p.108 struck *e* giving *Mātiura* (twice) and “complete” inserted;
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p.132 “Junior” inserted; p.211 “Figgins's” inserted before ‘Pica Bengalee’; p.217 cedilla giving
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*poinçons*; p.219 n.27 an “l” giving *appellations*; p.224 a struck letter giving *preceding*, a letter
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completing *principal*, and a cedilla giving *Poinçons*; p.226 cedillas giving *Poinçons* (three times)
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and accents on *gravés* and *Hénaffe*; p.232 “the” inserted before *whole*; p.233 an umlaut giving
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*erbländischen*; p.238 an “e” giving *abgenommene*; p.248 *susceptible* inserted; p.271 *metal*
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inserted and an “m” giving *accommodated*; p.283 and p.284 an “m” giving *accommodate*; p.286 an “r”
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giving *occurred* and “on” completing *phenomenon*; p.318 n.27 “and see above, p. 267” added; p.323 an
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“h” giving *rhythm*; p.331 *from* inserted; p.336 an “n” giving *manufacturers*; p.340 *same* inserted at
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the page head; p.347 and p.349 an “m”/“n” giving *accommodate* and *implemented*; p.352 an “m” and an
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“r” giving *accommodate* and *repertoire*; p.359 an “i” giving *compatibility* and a struck letter giving
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*benefited*; p.362 a struck letter giving *benefited*; p.366 an “n” giving *fonts* and an “i” giving
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*facilities* (n.13); p.389 an “s” giving *newspaper* and an “r” giving *occurring*.
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- **p.42 (PDF 44), n.39** — the mark before “acquired” is ink blotting, not a caret.
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- **Library ownership stamps are not reproduced** (Sammay, 2026-09-14): they record that the *physical copy*
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belonged to a library, which is not true of this edition. That covers the University of London stamp below
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the notes on p.49 (PDF 51), the `BIBL. LONDIN. UNIV.` stamp under the last page of the Bibliography
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(p.429, PDF 431), and the accession stamp 20618054 on the scan's blank leaf 3. Graphic elements that belong
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to the *document* — the ProQuest logo on the provenance leaf — are kept. Corrected 2026-09-14: the mark on
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the title page, carried in `src/pages/p0001.tex` as `plates/seal-p0001.png`, is not the School's seal but a
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fourth `BIBL. LONDIN. UNIV.` stamp. It is dropped with the rest, and the claim in `src/colophon.tex` that a
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seal was kept is gone with it.
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- **Text face**: TeX Gyre ScholaX, added to the Dockerfile and in use since 2026-09-14. (This closes the old
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open question about a more readable face.)
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- **p.141 (PDF 143), plate 57** — the label is **VF1** (a Vincent Figgins fount), settled by the author's own
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note 132 on p.143.
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