Greetings,
Well it looks like I have come to the end, or at least for now. I have completed the version 2 of both the modern version and Elizabethan version of my fencing manual. I am hoping that sometime in the not too distant future that I will be able to post links to both versions on this blog for your reading, however that will not be today. I also have no doubts in my mind that this project is not finished and that there will be a version 3 of this project produced.
It has been an interesting process from version 1 to version 2. In many ways the most interesting step was the divergence element which I have noted previously. This is the point where there was a distinct divergence between the modern version and the period version. The modern version began to take more the shape of a lesson book with diagrams and information in a more easily digestible form including diagrams of elements of the manual. The period version on the other hand, developed more complexity in the language and also distinct changes in grammar and typesetting. This means that the words in the one are quite definitively not the same words as in the other, however they do both deliver the same information.
This difference in form though similarity in intent is the reason why this project was started in the first place. There are many people who shy away from sources of the medieval and Renaissance periods because the language is different from the modern. The information on many subjects is there just waiting to be found within the pages of these documents but the language and its format often scares people away from using it. It is this fear that was the original reason that this project was started.
This project is designed to present two manuals which describe the same things, but using different language, one older than the other. This was to demonstrate that while the language may be different the information which is found in it is the same. Rather than having to work out how weapons were used from some guess-work we can read what was written in the period, the trick here is to find familiarity with the language and this project was designed to do just that. The fact that it taught me a lot about the Elizabethan language and Early Modern English in the process which I was able to present in this blog was just a bonus.
Cheers,
Henry.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Sunday, March 2, 2014
EE Version 2 - Progress Update - 2 March 2014
Greetings,
Just a short one to say that I have finished Book One of the Elizabethan English (EE) Version 2 of the project and will soon be moving on to Book Two. I can say one thing for sure and that is that the EE version of this manual is taking its time and that is good because it means I should be able to do a reasonable job at it. It is most definitely a "process" thing.
1. Remove heading and change it to the standard font and centre it.
2. Read through and edit the section changing the language or at least the words in to words closer to the ones of the period.
3. Formatting 1. Change the font of the entire section to a more period one. Insert Drop Cap for the first letter of the section and make sure the formatting is good. Add headers where required.
4. Ligatures. These are jointed characters used in the original formats of the printed word in the Elizabethan period, the addition of these adds to the "flavour" of the printing present.
5. Formatting 2. Alignment, making sure that the ends of the lines are at least close to even, this involves hyphenation. Follow-on words from the end of each page to the beginning of the next page. These are a feature of many documents of the period.
So, 5 steps to transferring the PDE to the EE versions. Most of this has to be done manually as the formatting is a little tricky and there are some font issues. In essence this is making it so the EE version is taking quite a bit longer than I thought, hence my gap in posting. I am hoping that I will at least have all the singular sections done by the end of the month, and hopefully even a completed version, but that will be a "wait and see" sort of thing.
Cheers,
Henry.
Just a short one to say that I have finished Book One of the Elizabethan English (EE) Version 2 of the project and will soon be moving on to Book Two. I can say one thing for sure and that is that the EE version of this manual is taking its time and that is good because it means I should be able to do a reasonable job at it. It is most definitely a "process" thing.
1. Remove heading and change it to the standard font and centre it.
2. Read through and edit the section changing the language or at least the words in to words closer to the ones of the period.
3. Formatting 1. Change the font of the entire section to a more period one. Insert Drop Cap for the first letter of the section and make sure the formatting is good. Add headers where required.
4. Ligatures. These are jointed characters used in the original formats of the printed word in the Elizabethan period, the addition of these adds to the "flavour" of the printing present.
5. Formatting 2. Alignment, making sure that the ends of the lines are at least close to even, this involves hyphenation. Follow-on words from the end of each page to the beginning of the next page. These are a feature of many documents of the period.
So, 5 steps to transferring the PDE to the EE versions. Most of this has to be done manually as the formatting is a little tricky and there are some font issues. In essence this is making it so the EE version is taking quite a bit longer than I thought, hence my gap in posting. I am hoping that I will at least have all the singular sections done by the end of the month, and hopefully even a completed version, but that will be a "wait and see" sort of thing.
Cheers,
Henry.
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