Here are some tips and guidelines on transcribing pages. To edit a page, you will need to be logged in to PBWiki (here's how to create an account - it's easy!). For a step-by-step overview of how to edit a wiki page, see these Step-by-Step Instructions (with screenshots).

On the Homepage, you will find a list of pages; as you BEGIN work on something, please put your name (or "xxx" if you wish to remain anonymous) in the box for that step of the process (Type or Format or Proof) for that page. That will let people know which work has begun, and which work needs to be done. The pages will be going through a process of transcribing as follows: 

1) Type: Typing the text as it appears on the page of the book. When you are DONE typing the page, please put the initial and final entries in the appropriate columns.

2) Format: Add bold to the head words, and italicize the sources cited.

3) Proof: We will need to come up with a series of proofreading stages; for now, we will just call it "Proof" - which means someone has compared the text of the Wiki page to the text of the book and corrected any problems or highlighted those problems for future examination. Please feel free to use the comments area of the page for remarks, observations, questions, etc.

Et. Please replace the ligature symbol ampersand with et.

V-j. Please try to follow Comenius's use of V/u and his use of the letter j. This is something we can standardize in the proofreading stage, but it would be best if you could follow his standard, even if it is different from the orthography you might be used to.

Standard Roman characters only: No digraph ligatures.  For "ae" please use two separate letters ("a" and "e") instead of using the compound digraph æ. Likewise for the "oe" digraph.

Standard Roman characters only: No diacritics. In order to make sure the dictionary pages are as search-engine-friendly as possible, please do not use the diacritical marks (accent marks, circumflexes) which are occasionally found in the book to indicate long vowels - or, if you do want to include them, please do a standard form first, THEN followed by the form with the diacritic in brackets, e.g.

maxime [maximè]. 

Greek font. The Greek font is not easy to read, so if you are not familiar with this style of Greek please just write [PROBLEM: GREEK] in the text and someone else will add the Greek later. If you are able to read the font, please include  a Unicode Greek version - doing Greek is really easy, since you can convert Beta Code (using simple Roman characters) to Unicode at TypeGreek.com. Here is an example:

Cannot read: [PROBLEM: GREEK]

in Beta Code it would be:  o( gri/fos

you can convert that to Unicode easily: ὁ γρίφος

Errors in the original. When you find something that is certainly or possibly an error in the original, you should add a Comment to that page. Depending on how certain you are about the error, you might also choose to correct it in your transcription. In either case: please make sure to add a comment to the page about the error.

Hyphenated words between pages. If your new page starts with the second part of a hyphenated word at the top of the page, please look back to the previous page so that you can supply the whole word. Likewise, when you finish a page, if the last word is hyphenated, please look to the next page and include the whole word, not just the hyphenated portion, at the bottom of the page.

Problems. Where you note a problem please write [PROBLEM] in all capital letters (the use of this English word will make it easier to search for the problems later). You can also use the "Comments" space on any page to include your questions and observations. Please make sure you can put in BRACKETS any notes you want to include about the problem, e.g.

[PROBLEM - top line missing from page scan]

Please feel free to edit this document, or to add your questions and suggestions in the Comments field below. Thank you!