
Hanover Historical Texts Project

Guidelines
Current Projects
Future Projects
People Working on the Project
Schedule for Using the Scanner or Server in Classic 303B

Guidelines
Scanning, Saving Files, and Proofreading
- If you are using the scanner in Classic 303B, open Omnipage (there is an icon on the desktop), place the xerox copy (or book)onto the flatbed scanner, and click "scan" (the icon of the scanner).
- After the page is scanned, select either "continue" to scan a second page(repeating the procedure above for the second page) or "end" to save the file. As a general rule it is best to have smaller files of say 10 pages or so.
- Save the file as a Word file (.doc) in the "wordfiles" folder inside the "texts" folder (c:\wwwroot\html\texts)
- the file name is typically (in lower case) the author's last name (or a portion of it), with numbers following the name if there are chapters E.g. smith1.doc, smith2.doc
- make sure that everything is accurate i.e. that the electronic copy perfectly reproduces the original copy
- insert the page number in square brackets
Early English Texts
- type in the words in the original spelling, converting "u"'s and "v"'s and "J"s and "i"'s to the modern usage
- add square brackets with page numbers at the beginning of each page
- follow all of the other above instructions for scanned files
Converting Word Files to HTML
- Using an html editor (or Notepad) open the appropriate generic html file in the "texts" folder.
- genchap.htm for chapters
- gentable.htm for table of content page with links to chapers
- gentxt.htm for one page texts
- gentxtan.htm for one page texts taken from an anthology
- Insert the appropriate bibliographical information and other material in the header.
- From the "edit" drag-down menu, pick "select all," then "copy," and then "paste" the file to a new (blank) file.
- Using Word, open the scanned Word file. From edit "select all," "copy" and "paste," inserting the text where indicated on the htm file. Add the necessary html mark-up language. E.g. < p > for paragraph, < br > for line break, < BLOCKQUOTE > BLOCKQUOTE > for blockquote, etc.
- Separate the original pages with a paragraph < p >.
- After the < p >, insert the page number in brackets, followed by a line break < br > E.g. < p > [Page 39] < br >.
- For more assistance in using html language, see

Current Projects
Henry Gee and W.H. Hardy, eds., Documents Illustrative of the History of the English Church
- save Word files under c:\wwwroot\html\texts\wordfiles\engref\er98.doc (er99.doc, etc) (there are also "edited" and "unedited" folders here that you could use
- save html files under c:\wwwroot\html\texts\engref\er98.html (er99.htm, etc)
CURRENT STATUS
- pp. 1-45 docs #1-8: scanned; not proofread; not converted to html; saved as .rtf files [5g.rtf, 6.rtf, 7.rtf] in "wordfiles/engref/unedited"
- pp. 46-416 docs #9-76: not scanned; not proofread; not converted to html
- currently missing pp. 200-250
- pp. 416-545 docs #77-97: scanned; edited; proofread; converted to html; saved as html files in "engref" folder -- er77.htm, er78.htm etc.
- need to insert page numbers
- footers should be changed to model the footer on er77.htm
- pp. 546-590 docs #98-115: scanned; not proofread; not converted to html; saved as .rtf files [2g.rtf, 3g.rtf, 4g.rtf] in "wordfiles/engref/unedited"
- pp. 591-670 docs#115-124: scanned; not proofread; not converted to html; saved as word files [history.doc, history1.doc, history2.doc]in "wordfiles/engref/unedited"
- currently missing pp. 621-650
Battista Guarino, De Ordine Docendi et Studendi
- save Word files under c:\wwwroot\html\texts\wordfiles\guarino.doc
- save html files under c:\wwwroot\html\texts\guarino.htm
CURRENT STATUS
- scanned; not yet proofread; converted to html
- needs page numbers
- footnotes?
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, De Liberorum Educatione
- save Word files under c:\wwwroot\html\aeneas.doc
- save html files under c:\wwwroot\html\texts\aeneas.htm
CURRENT STATUS
- scanned; not yet proofread; converted to html
- needs page numbers
- footnotes?
No Plays
Early English Books
- Ady -- Shahid
- Chelmsford 79 -- Eric -- needs proofreading
- Chelmsford 89 -- Eric -- needs proofreading
- Cooper 22 -- Errol -- needs proofreading
- Darrel -- Maria
- Hale -- Michael
- James I -- needs proofreading
- More -- Errol -- needs proofreading
- Perkins, Golden Chain -- Baljit
- St. Oses 82 -- Eric -- needs proofreading
- Satan Transformed -- Errol -- needs proofreading
- Stearne45 -- Kwadwo -- needs proofreading

Future Projects
Baron D'Holbach, Good Sense (Boston: J. P. Mendum, 1856)
Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography
Petrarch, Canzoniere
Balthasar Hubmaier, On the Sword
in Henry Vedder, Balthasar Hubmaier: The Leader of the Anabaptists (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), 276-313?
George B. Adams and H. Morse Stephens, eds., Select Documents of English Constitutional History (New York: MacMillan, 1901)
William MacDonald, ed., Select Documents Illustrative of the History of the United States, 1776-1861 (New York: MacMillan, 1898)

People Working on the Project
Eric Arvin
arvin@hanover.edu
Kwadwo Boatengboateng@hanover.edu
Niroshan Egodawatteegodawatte@hanover.edu
Baljitsingh Kalsibaljit98@yahoo.com
Faris Khankhanf@hanover.edu
Maria Mirzamirza@hanover.edu
Errol Royerrolroy@yahoo.com
Mansoor Shahidshahidm@hanover.edu
Ilamaren Sivarajah sivarajh@hanover.edu
Michael Weewee@hanover.edu
Patrick Yauyau@hanover.edu
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Last Updated: December 26, 2001
