Index talk:H.R. Rep. No. 94-1476

PDF Version Available

A 155 MB PDF version of this House Report, created from the same original scans, can be downloaded here. Tarmstro99 18:17, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

About the “.djvu” files

The page scans on Commons are posted in DjVu format, which you can read more about at w:DjVu. Most modern browsers should be able to display the images side-by-side with the extracted text. Note also that clicking on an image will zoom in to the clicked region. If you are having trouble working with the images, some of the browser plugins available from http://www.djvu.org/ may be of assistance. Tarmstro99 18:17, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Advice on dealing with the rotated page sections

Pages 186–358 (comprising nearly 50% of the total document) consist of small text laid out in 3 columns that were rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise in the original printed report. I have uploaded the scans to Commons in their original orientation, but note that this makes it a little unwieldy when you are trying to proofread the text. The best advice I can think of so far is to download the PDF version of the file (linked above) and rotate it in your PDF viewer (Acrobat Reader can certainly accomplish this) when working with one of these pages. Tarmstro99 18:17, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Conditional Text

I have been using {{#ifeq:}} to make some of the edits to the document conditional depending on the context in which they are displayed. The ultimate goal is to make it possible to build a completed version of the document up through transcluding each of the edited pages into one or more final pages. I’m adding conditional text based on the following principles:

• Amendments by Congress to the published text should be linked to the corresponding Errata page on which they appear if the user is editing an individual page, but should not be so linked in the final stitched-together version of the document. I’ve accomplished this by using {{#ifeq:}} to test whether {{NAMESPACE}} equals Page; if it does, then link to the corresponding Errata page for the correction, otherwise just print the as-corrected text.
• Amendments by Wikisource editors to the published text should appear in a footnote if, but only if, {{SUBPAGENAME}} equals Annotated. This means that typos that went uncorrected by Congress (such as the rather embarrassing “copright” on Page 1) are preserved in all their glory when the page is transcluded, but we are free to provide an alternate “Annotated” version supplying a corrected version of the text (corrections will be indicated in footnotes, not inline, to preserve the appearance of the original text as published).
• I’m also using the {{NAMESPACE}}-equals-Page test to prevent hyphenation of words that begin on one page but end on the next page. So when we are in the Page: namespace, the last word on page 13 will appear as “per-” and the first word on page 14 will appear as “formance”, but when the pages are transcluded together outside the Page namespace, the word “performance” will appear without hyphenation.

Hope that is (at least, minimally) clear. Studying a few example pages should help if it isn’t. I welcome suggestions or improvements if there is a better way to accomplish what I’m aiming at. Tarmstro99 16:23, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

OCR

The OCR for pages 303 through 358 is of extremely low quality, so I uploaded some better OCR text for those pages at User:Psychless/ocr. Psychless 13:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Collated version

In case anyone wants it, there is a collated version of the document at File:H.R. Rep. No. 94-1476 (1976).djvu. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 23:47, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Oh thank God! That bothered me every time I had to refer to it (frequently). How do you suggest we port over? (or is there any reason to have both?) -- George Orwell III (talk) 01:31, 3 July 2012 (UTC)