Index talk:Shakespearean Tragedy (1912).djvu

Odd small-caps roman digit one

This work uses a weird small-caps pseudo-roman numeral for the number one: i. This occurs in section headings within chapters (which are numbered) and in the initial number of play names such as i Henry VI.; but subsequent entries in the sequence use a normal "2" (i.e. 2 Henry VI). Note also that the regnal number uses a normal capital letter "I" in the roman numeral.

After a bit of waffling I've landed on silently regularising these instances to normal arabic numerals: 1 Henry VI.

The alternative is a lot of formatting markup and inconsistent (though original) numbering; and there's no doubt what the original intends, it's just a quirky bit of typography. Modern usage is also to use arabic numerals for this syntax. --Xover (talk) 07:54, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Text sizes

This work uses relatively many different text sizes, primarily for headings. To attempt to keep these straight I have tried to keep to the following: xxx-larger for chapter titles ("Lecture III"); xx-larger for chapter sub-headings ("Hamlet"); x-larger for section numbers (2); and thus reserving larger (if needed) and normal size for running text.

Quotations in prose text are set off with a 3em left margin and smaller text. --Xover (talk) 13:31, 24 December 2018 (UTC)