{Marginal Notes [and Transcription Conventions]}[1st April 1987]

[Redbook3:86][19870401:0000]{Marginal Notes [and Transcription Conventions]}[1st April 1987]

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Over the last couple of days I have inserted marginal headings (in ... brackets) in this volume up to date. Originally to aid me in finding earlier passages in particular items, these have been unable to resist the temptation to multiply and become marginally [sic] more than merely headings: opinionated, and at times facetious. I may or may not keep them up*. I may also insert (Paragraph or Section HEADINGS) occasionally at appropriate beginnings. Or not. (I now have done so.)

*[These marginal, section and paragraph headings appear to have been continued at least until the end of this Volume. Some of these paragraph and section headings have been included in this transcription, generally shown (thus) or (THUS) (sometimes underlined, which was unnecessary and has no significance in these headings) along with the headings added later in most or all Volumes, shown {thus}. None, or almost none, of the marginal headings have been included in this transcription for Google Blogger.

Marginal notes and references are increasingly included in the typescript from about the middle of this volume onwards, whereas marginal references to other parts of this Journal generally, and some or most marginal notes, were typically excluded from earlier transcription for this Google Blogger blog. Undated marginal notes added later are enclosed in the same {brackets} as the headings added later in most or all Volumes (referred to above).

Marginal notes are transcribed in smaller font than the main text to which they refer, except in one circumstance as follows. Marginal notes have been left in normal sized font (i.e the same as the main text to which they refer) when these appear to be contemporaneous with the text, or as near to contemporaneous as to be part of the same thought-process, although this is sometimes a matter of best-guesswork based chiefly on consideration of hand-writing styles and relative positioning on the manuscript page. There is occasional inconsistency in Google's conversion of font sizes which cannot always be resolved.

Square brackets enclose notes etc. added at around the time of transcription or of posting on Google Blogger (transcription, at the time of typing this note, runs normally up to 2 months ahead of posting on Google Blogger, and is unlikely to exceed that lead time). Occasionally, where such notes are considered particularly substantive, the actual date of the original note is given inside <arrow brackets>, consistently with the original manuscript bracketing for dates of earlier marginal notes. Anticipatory blog references have been worked out and added for some manuscript forward references, typically where these seemed particularly relevant, with elements which could not yet be ascertained represented by a symbol such as # (Note that such symbols, and especially ~, may have a different meaning outside such references; for example, # can also be part of the footnote referencing system).

The letters at the end of the second element in the headings, the date:time element, which denote the particular blog post from that journal date-time, originally started with 'a' on the second such post, but were later changed to start with 'b' on the second such post.

Omissions are almost always shown […] or [….] (or exceptionally in the first line of the text above, …, where square brackets would be misleading), except in the case of personal names which are generally shown substituted by one or more initials, so: [N], and certain fiction titles (e.g. [0], [1], [2]), and characters or Archetypes (e.g. +K, xS, G~). Text is redacted to protect individuals, or to disguise other writings, or very occasionally to remove text (from this very personal and once completely private journal) which is highly misleading, is grossly unacceptable by the standards of the time of transcription, has security implications, or is potentially libellous.

Spelling and some punctuation has typically been corrected without the fact of correction being noted. Ordinary brackets ( ) in the text are as written in the manuscript, except where corrected; i.e. they are not used for any editorial purpose. However, some manuscript square brackets in marginal headings etc. have been transcripted as ordinary brackets ( ) because square brackets are reserved for insertions at around the time of transcription and posting. Finally, inside square brackets editorial comment is represented in italics, whereas substantive insertions generally are not.]

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