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.
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