When a word other than a source is given in italics in the definition part, I have been italicizing it. (Might make more sense to bold it if it refers to another head-word.) If it's in the head-word part (such as Allegare scil. exempla) I have been bolding it. Is there a policy on this?

Ann

Hi Ann, I had been reserving italics just for sources cited - and bolding for the entire head-word (up to the close bracket that he uses to mark that off). That's an easy and simple rule to apply. I'm not sure other uses of italics matter one way or another at this point, since bolding and italics are not involved in searching. My main goal here is to have a good, SEARCHABLE version of the lexicon online, and the main reason to use bold and italics is to enhance readability on the screen more than anything - plus, people can always consult the PDF scan if they want to see how text was formatted in the original.

Of course, if someone wants to take up the enormous task of rendering this in a format for actual printing in book form (not a major goal of mine, I'll admit), they will probably want to introduce formatting conventions for bolding, formatting, different even from what we are doing here. So I would guess the best thing to do is just to be consistent in whatever approach you are taking on your pages - and, at a minimum, to bold the headwords and italicize the sources for good on-screen readability now.

What's interesting is that Comenius himself is inconsistent in some formatting issues - I've noticed that esp. with use of commas. If someone decides they want to edit this book for printing, they will definitely want to ponder whether or not to follow Comenius (even when he is inconsistent) or to impose a new set of editorial standards and stick to them. :-)

Laura, can you add pages for the title page and introduction? I think they should be transcribed as well, no? I suppose if you gave these pages Roman numerals, they wouldn't mess up your numbering system.
Evan.

Great idea, Evan - I will do that when I get back home this evening (Sun. evening). Super! :-)

Sometimes I run across little gems while transcribing. Here's one from today [not the best, just today's]:
Damnum partiale] Praelio victus, non bello.

I'm sure others find some, too. It might be nice to have a place to note them.

Tom, what a great idea! I have created a page called florilegium for people to make such notes - macte!
:-)

I wish to announce with pride that p. 134 (still under process of editing) was typed in by the students of my Yr. 12 Latin class at the Marist School, under the name of Pulchrae (it's an all-girls' school). They have also selected a couple of tidbits from it for the Florilegium. I'm quite excited about their desire to participate, albeit it could spring from a reluctance to work on the First Catilinarian.

Ann, that is SO COOL... I'm doing a weekly announcement about our progress in my blog, and I will be sure to give a nod to the "Pulchrae" - eugepae!!! :-)

Here's a useful tool.
Latin spell check.
This is a Firefox broswer thing. First go here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3
or directly here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5563
Install the Latin Dictionary and then use spell check as you type. NOTA BENE:
Spell check won't work in the regular edit window! BUT, if you click on the "source" button in the toolbar, it will be enabled. A lot of words will be hilited erroneously (like all the English tags), but it should help otherwise.

OOOH, Tom, that is very cool! Have you shared this on the LatinTeach list? I bet this is the kind of thing people there might find very helpful. I'll play around with it this weekend and see how it works for me! I wonder what source text they used to build the dictionary (all the spellcheckers for inflected languages impress the heck out of me!).

Tom, can you explain more how to use the dictionary? Which toolbar has a "source" button? Can you also use it to look things up?
gratias ago!

Ann, when you click on the "edit" tab [to start typing text], the formating toolbar appears. On the second line, you can see: Textcolor, Backcolor, Format, Font, Size and _source_.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look things up. But if you right+click on a problem word, it will offer suggestions.

Laura, I think I first heard about it from LatinTeach (Mike Myers?). And I think the Abiword or Openoffice programs have Latin spell check-- but I haven't tried it...yet!

http://books.google.com/books?id=SNAIAAAAQAAJ
This is Festus' Latin-Latin dictionary.