84000 Guidelines for Translators v 10.7 (Dec 2018) 84000 Guidelines for Translators Note: the principal recent changes made to this document are in red, to provide quick reference for those familiar with version 9.0 Contents I. ORIENTATION ................................................................................................................................... 2 A. Goals and methods .......................................................................................................................... 2 B. Source text....................................................................................................................................... 3 C. Text comparison and critical editions ............................................................................................. 3 D. The Text Critical Guidelines document .......................................................................................... 4 E. Target readership ............................................................................................................................. 4 II. GENERAL ELEMENTS AND APPROACH TO TRANSLATION ................................................. 4 A. Guiding principles........................................................................................................................... 4 B. Style, syntax, and treatment of other text elements ........................................................................ 5 C. Terminology .................................................................................................................................... 6 III. TECHNICAL AND FORMATTING ISSUES ................................................................................. 7 A. Word processor ............................................................................................................................... 7 B. Fonts ................................................................................................................................................ 8 C. Formatting ....................................................................................................................................... 8 IV. STYLE AND STRUCTURE SPECIFICATIONS ............................................................................ 9 A. Spelling ........................................................................................................................................... 9 B. Proper names ................................................................................................................................. 11 C. Capitalization ................................................................................................................................ 12 D. Text titles ...................................................................................................................................... 13 E. Italics ............................................................................................................................................. 13 F. Punctuation .................................................................................................................................... 14 G. Content layout, sections, headings, folio and bam po markers ..................................................... 15 H. “Milestone” markers ..................................................................................................................... 17 I. Order of elements in the final draft ................................................................................................ 18 J. Reference: The Chicago Manual of Style ...................................................................................... 18 K. Inclusion of TEI encoded information .......................................................................................... 19 V. ANCILLARY ELEMENTS ............................................................................................................. 19 A. Table of contents ........................................................................................................................... 19 B. Structural outline ........................................................................................................................... 19 C. Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 20 D. Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................................ 20 E. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 20 F. Notes .............................................................................................................................................. 21 G. Glossaries ...................................................................................................................................... 23 H. Bibliography ................................................................................................................................. 27 I. Appendices ..................................................................................................................................... 28 1 Back to Table of Contents 84000 Guidelines for Translators v 10.7 (Dec 2018) J. Keywords ....................................................................................................................................... 28 K. Index ............................................................................................................................................. 29 VI. TOOLS AND RESOURCES .......................................................................................................... 29 VII. PEOPLE YOU WILL BE WORKING WITH ............................................................................... 29 A. The members of your translator team ........................................................................................... 29 B. 84000’s grants committee ............................................................................................................. 29 C. 84000’s executive director ............................................................................................................ 29 D. 84000’s project editor ................................................................................................................... 29 E. Reviewers ...................................................................................................................................... 30 F. Copyeditor ..................................................................................................................................... 30 G. Indexer .......................................................................................................................................... 30 H. Tools and resources manager ........................................................................................................ 30 I. Design and markup ......................................................................................................................... 30 VIII. PRE-PUBLICATION STAGES ................................................................................................... 30 A. Submitting your work ................................................................................................................... 30 B. Review .......................................................................................................................................... 31 C. Copyediting ................................................................................................................................... 31 D. Text finalization and approval for publication.............................................................................. 31 E. Markup .......................................................................................................................................... 31 F. Page proofing................................................................................................................................. 31 G. Index ............................................................................................................................................. 31 IX. PUBLICATION STAGE................................................................................................................. 32 A. Copyright ...................................................................................................................................... 32 B. Publication .................................................................................................................................... 32 C. Future revision .............................................................................................................................. 32 APPENDIX 1 UNICODE FONTS AND DIACRITIC ENTRY METHODS FOR TRANSLITERATED SANSKRIT ........................................................................................................ 33 1) Windows ........................................................................................................................................ 33 2) Mac ................................................................................................................................................ 34 3) Both Windows and Mac ...............................................................................................................