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== Background information ==

This manual is focused on the proofreading formats used in {{TPSMProject}}. The information here is specifically lays out the style for this project and information on templates and methods which are not not used, are omitted from this guide. Nevertheless, the information provided here may be of help in other projects.

This project began in the autumn of 2009 and at the time of this writing in the autumn of 2014 five years later, we have 28 of 87 volumes proofread. The additional volumes no longer deal with the original premise of the publication, but they are available for proofreading.

=== Breakdown of the approach used to proofread ===

The volumes have no table of contents and this was constructed by paging through and collecting article titles, authors, tagging pages containing images and tables - and proofreading the indexes which are located at the back of each volume. The titles and the volume indexes collected are stored in 87 offline MSAccess databases which are linked into a single master database which is also contains the nearly 2,500 author names, the list of identified monthly recurring article titles.

=== What was completed overall ===

* Article title pages.
* Index pages at the end of each volume.
* Pages with images.
* Pages with tables.
* Table of contents.
* Main namespace article titles.
* Major categorization of the main namespace articles.

=== What needs to be done ===

* Proofreading of pages.
* Inserting some overlooked tables.
* Inserting some overlooked images.
* Linking the volume index entry anchors to the titles.

== Typographic formats ==

=== Hyphenation ===

* Hyphenated words, which by themselves are correct, are left as is, being the typesetting style at the time.
* A hyphen at the end of line is often used to justify the text. Use your judgement if the words should be hyphenated.
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=== General templates ===

* Attempt was made to use [[:Category:Formatting templates|Templates]] almost exclusively. HTML tags are limited to the minimum where a template wasn't available or possible.