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 == Transcription guidelines ==
+To transcribe the letters we are following several simple rules, selected for the purpose of producing standard transcriptions despite the number of people who will be working on this project. <br />
 <!-- First of all, we decided to carry out two kinds of transcription for each letter:
 * a diplomatic transcription, reproducing the original structure and the spelling of the words of the original text: within this transcription a small group of TEI tags will be used;

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 == Transcription guidelines ==
-To transcribe the letters we are following several simple rules, selected for the purpose of producing standard transcriptions despite the number of people who will be working on this project. <br />
 <!-- First of all, we decided to carry out two kinds of transcription for each letter:
 * a diplomatic transcription, reproducing the original structure and the spelling of the words of the original text: within this transcription a small group of TEI tags will be used;

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 <!-- First of all, we decided to carry out two kinds of transcription for each letter:
 * a diplomatic transcription, reproducing the original structure and the spelling of the words of the original text: within this transcription a small group of TEI tags will be used;
-* a reviewed transcription, where all the abbreviations and some certain features of the original text will be regularized to ease the reading, the full text search and the semantic annotation too. -->
+* a reviewed transcription, where all the abbreviations and some particular features of the original text will be regularized to ease the reading, the full text search and the semantic annotation too. -->
 === Diplomatic transcription ===

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 == Transcription guidelines ==
 To transcribe the letters we are following several simple rules, selected for the purpose of producing standard transcriptions despite the number of people who will be working on this project. <br />
-First of all, we decided to carry out two kinds of transcription for each letter:
+<!-- First of all, we decided to carry out two kinds of transcription for each letter:
 * a diplomatic transcription, reproducing the original structure and the spelling of the words of the original text: within this transcription a small group of TEI tags will be used;
-* a reviewed transcription, where all the abbreviations and some certain features of the original text will be regularized to ease the reading, the full text search and the semantic annotation too.
+* a reviewed transcription, where all the abbreviations and some certain features of the original text will be regularized to ease the reading, the full text search and the semantic annotation too. -->
 === Diplomatic transcription ===
-The [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TEITags TEI Tags] extension has been implemented to carry out the diplomatic transcription of the letters. This extension has been devoloped by Richard Davis within the [http://www.transcribe-bentham.da.ulcc.ac.uk/td/Transcribe_Bentham Transcribe Bentham Project]. TEI Tags allows the use of a group of TEI tags to give the text a basic logical structure and to highlight some text phenomena. <br/>
+The [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TEITags TEI Tags] extension has been implemented to carry out a diplomatic transcription of the letters. This extension has been developed by Richard Davis within the [http://www.transcribe-bentham.da.ulcc.ac.uk/td/Transcribe_Bentham Transcribe Bentham Project]. TEI Tags allows the use of a group of TEI tags to give the text a basic logical structure and to highlight some text phenomena. <br/>
 The diplomatic transcription is performed within the [[Help:Wiki help#Page|Page namespace]]. <br/>
 The following is a brief guidance for the use of tags.<br />
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-=== Reviewed transcription ===
+<!-- === Reviewed transcription ===
 The reviewed transcription is performed within [[Help:Wiki help#Main|'Main' namespace]]. This transcription does not use TEI tags, but just some elements of [[mw:Help:Formatting|Wiki markup]].
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-'''Please note that it is not necessary that the reviewed transcription respects the length of the lines of the original text''': insert a <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code> only when a new paragraph is started and to separate each text blocks.
+'''Please note that it is not necessary that the reviewed transcription respects the length of the lines of the original text''': insert a <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code> only when a new paragraph is started and to separate each text blocks. -->
 == Management tasks ==

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 ==== <nowiki><head></nowiki> ====
 Head: "the <code><nowiki><head></nowiki></code> element is used to identify a heading prefixed to the start of any textual division, at any level" (TEI P5).<ref>http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-head.html</ref> <br />
-This tag must be used to mark the salutation at the beginning of the letters, including the first line only.<ref>At the moment, due to a technical issue, other tags inserted within <code><nowiki><head></nowiki></code> are not properly parsed; if you use other tags within <code><nowiki><head></nowiki></code>, after saving you will notice a parsing error. You can ignore it and leave the code you used, since in the future this bug will be fixed, or you can use <code><nowiki><big></big></nowiki></code> tag instead (you will find it in the 'Advanced' toolbar, button [[File:Vector toolbar big text button.png]]).</ref><br />
+This tag must be used to mark the salutation at the beginning of the letters, including the first line only.<ref>At the moment, due to a technical issue, other tags inserted within <code><nowiki><head></nowiki></code> are not properly parsed; if you use other tags within <code><nowiki><head></nowiki></code>, after saving you will notice a parsing error. You can ignore it and leave the code you used, since in the future this bug will be fixed; otherwise you can use <code><nowiki><big></big></nowiki></code> tag instead of <code><nowiki><head></nowiki></code> (you will find it in the 'Advanced' toolbar, button [[File:Vector toolbar big text button.png]]).</ref><br />
 Corresponding button in the 'Edition' toolbar: [[File:TEI Head22px.png]]
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 Abbreviation: "<code><nowiki><abbr></nowiki></code> (abbreviation) contains an abbreviation of any sort." (TEI P5).<ref>http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-abbr.html</ref><br />
 Use this tag to mark abbreviated words, e.g. <code><nowiki><abbr>R.do</abbr></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><abbr>Ill.mo</abbr></nowiki></code>. In case of two or more consecutive abbreviated words, mark each of them with a separate tag, e.g. <code><nowiki><abbr>V.</abbr> <abbr>R.</abbr></nowiki></code>.
-When abbreviations show up as symbols, transcribe only the first letter of the abbreviated word followed by a dot and mark this text using <code><nowiki><abbr></nowiki></code>. E.g. when the symbols for <code>per</code> occurs, mark it as <code><nowiki><abbr>p.</abbr></nowiki></code>.<br />
+When abbreviations show up as symbols, please transcribe only the first letter of the abbreviated word followed by a dot and mark this text using <code><nowiki><abbr></nowiki></code>. E.g. when the symbols for <code>per</code> occurs, mark them as <code><nowiki><abbr>p.</abbr></nowiki></code>.<br />
 Corresponding button in the 'Edition' toolbar: [[File:TEI Abbr22px.png]]
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 ==== Other rules ====
 * '''Diphthongs''': you must insert diphthongs using the 'Special characters' toolbar and choosing the 'Latin' set of characters.
-* Do not use spaces or start a new lines more than necessary.
+* Do not use spaces or start new lines more than necessary.
 * Words on two lines (at end of one line and at the beginning of the following line) must be transcribed as they appear, transcribing the dash to start a new line, followed by the <code><nowiki><lb/></nowiki></code> tag, e.g.: <br />
 {| class="wikitable"
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-'''Please note that it is not necessary that the reviewed transcription respects the length of the lines of the original text''': insert a <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code> only when there is a new paragraph and to separate single text blocks.
+'''Please note that it is not necessary that the reviewed transcription respects the length of the lines of the original text''': insert a <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code> only when a new paragraph is started and to separate each text blocks.
 == Management tasks ==
-To maintain work progress up to date, users must change the transcription status when they finish to proofread the texts. <br />
+To maintain the work progress up to date, users must change the transcription status when they finish to proofread a text. <br />
-Further information about proofread tools, see [[Help:Wiki_help#Proofread|Wiki help#Proofread]].
+For further information about proofread tools, see [[Help:Wiki_help#Proofread|Wiki help#Proofread]].
 === Change transcription status ===
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 === Change transcription status categories ===
-[[File:AKC Cat.PNG|thumb|right|Page with category AKC Not proofread.]] When you are in 'Edit' mode within a not proofread page, before the text beginning (or at the end of it), you can read the code <code><nowiki>[[Category:AKC Not proofread]]</nowiki></code>. This code represents a category assigned to that page to group it with similar pages, in this case pages containing letters not yet proofread within the Athanasius Kircher Correspondence; as any other category, it is shown at bottom of the page (see [[Help:Wiki_help#Categories|Wiki help#Categories]] for further information). <br />
+[[File:AKC Cat.PNG|thumb|right|Page with category AKC Not proofread.]] When you are in 'Edit' mode within a not proofread page, before the text beginning (or at the end of it), you can read the code <code><nowiki>[[Category:AKC Not proofread]]</nowiki></code>. This code represents a category assigned to that page to group it with similar pages, in this case pages containing letters not yet proofread within the Athanasius Kircher Correspondence; as any other category, it is shown at the bottom of the page (see [[Help:Wiki_help#Categories|Wiki help#Categories]] for further information). <br />
 Once users ended their revisions, before saving, they must change this category to <code><nowiki>[[Category:AKC Proofread]]</nowiki></code>: this will allow to maintain the not proofread letters list up to date. <br />
-Before leaving the page, check if the new category is shown at the bottom of the page and if it is in blue, not red. If it is red, it means the code used is not correct. It is enough to write <code><nowiki>[[Category:AKC proofread]]</nowiki></code> (with lowercase <code>p</code>) to generate the error.
+Before leaving the page, check if the new category is shown at the bottom of the page and if it is in blue, not red. If it is red, it means the code used is not correct. It is sufficient to write <code><nowiki>[[Category:AKC proofread]]</nowiki></code> (with lowercase <code>p</code>) to generate the error.
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 AKC Cat Errata.PNG|Category AKC Proofread not correctly used.

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 These transcription guidelines are available in the following languages:
 * [[AKC Transcription guidelines IT|Italian]]
-* [[AKC Transcription guidelines ES|Spanish]] (not yet translated)
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