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effect

The book

-o, –out

directory for the output files

–format

folio | folio6 | quarto | octavo — how often the sheet is folded

–paper

the sheet itself: foolscap | pot | crown | demy | royal

–kind

auto | verse | prose | drama — how the copy is parsed

–title

running title

–edition

sheets printed; the Cambridge accounts show 400–820

–copies

made-up copies to collate for press variants

The workmen

–compositors

which men are at the frames, e.g. A,B or OkesB,OkesC

–order

formes | seriatim

–cast-off

accuracy of the casting off, 0–1

–no-copy-preparation

the corrector does not mark up the copy

The material

–case-scale

below 1.0 the case runs short; try 0.18

–fount

condition of the type: new | used | worn | foul

–skeletons

skeleton formes in use

–formes-standing

formes of type standing before distribution

At press

–first-proof

chance of a proof pulled before the run begins

–seed

the whole run is deterministic in this

Output

–html

an HTML facsimile built straight from the type

–tei

a TEI P5 encoding

–xslt

write the TEI and transform it to HTML

–layout

opening (verso | recto, as bound) or leaf

–witness

which made-up copy the XSLT should show

–numbers

number every fifth line of type

–no-long-s

set short s throughout

–modern-uv

keep modern u/v and i/j

–year

the date, which governs the scribal marks — they have a slope

–pages, –quiet

how much to print to the terminal