Index talk:The Vicar of Wakefield (Volume 1) - Goldsmith (1766, 1st edition).djvu

Quotation marks

Direct speech is indicated by double quotation marks. Where this speech runs over more than one line of text, each line begins (but doesn't end, unless it's the last line) with a quotation mark. So that text renders properly, the starting quotation marks on the intermediate lines have been removed.

Where direct speech runs to more than one paragraph, the closing quotation mark is omitted at the end of the first, and subsequent, paragraphs and only appears at the end of the last paragraph.

Occasionally the printer (and proofreader) lose control of the inverted commas, particularly where characters are reporting direct speech within their own direct speech. Errors have not been corrected.

'Straight' quotation marks have been used throughout the transcription. Chrisguise (talk) 08:13, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Typesetting quirks

In a few places, probably to avoid more extensive rejigging of the type following a correction, several words on a line are too close together and appear to be a single (new) word. Where this is the case, and the sense is clear, the words have been separated. Chrisguise (talk) 08:19, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Long dashes

In some places long dashes of various lengths are used. Sometimes their use appears to be to avoid the splitting of a word over two lines. Where this is thought to be the case, the dashes have been standardised as an "em" dash (—). In other places they are intended to convey meaning, such as to conceal a character's full name (e.g. Mr. D———); where this is so, the {{longdash}} is used.

Longer dashes have only been replicated if they occur at the end of a paragraph (e.g.————, using {{bar|3}}, {{bar|4}} as appropriate). Chrisguise (talk) 08:36, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Spelling

The text has been transcribed 'as-is' (E&OE), including unusual spellings (e.g. 'groupe' rather than 'group'). Chrisguise (talk) 08:50, 4 February 2025 (UTC)