Rules for Formatting Project Wittenberg Documents
                            by Rev. Robert E. Smith
                         Last Revision: November 1995

 1. Use the following style for the header and footer of each document.

 An example of a header:

                           _The Confession of Faith:
             Which Was Submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V
                  At the Diet of Augsburg in the Year 1530_.
                        by Philip Melanchthon, 1497-1560
                                 German Text
                     Edited by F. Bente and  W. H. T. Dau
                                 Published in:
                   _Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books
                         of the Ev. Lutheran Church_.
          (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921), pp. 37
 
 An example of a footer:
       _________________________________________________________________

       This text was converted to ascii format for Project Wittenberg by
       Rev. Theodore Mayes and is in the public domain.  You may freely
       distribute, copy or print this text.  Please direct any comments
       or suggestions to: Rev. Robert E. Smith of the Walther Library at
       Concordia Theological Seminary.
       
                        E-mail: smithre@mail.ctsfw.edu
          Surface Mail: 6600 N. Clinton St., Ft.  Wayne, IN 46825 USA
       Phone: (260) 452-2123                        Fax: (260) 452-2126
       ________________________________________________________________

 2. Modify them as needed and attach to each file. Put your name in as the
 one who converted to ascii or translated it as is appropriate. Please 
 remember that full and accurate citation is necessary to honor the spirit 
 as well as the letter of the copyright law, to apply the Seventh Commandment
 to it and to
 give you proper credit for your hard work. 

 3. Keep files roughly between 13k and 50-75k. If it is larger than this,
 divide them at logical places, i.e., articles and sections. If there is no
 logical place, divide at a paragraph and give it a Pt. One and Pt. 2, etc.
 type designation. If you do divide the file, it would also be helpful to 
 have a copy of the whole work in a single file as well. This is the form
 that Project Gutenberg prefers and they'll be happy to distribute copies of
 the more important pieces for us.

 4. If your word processor allows it, set the margins to one inch on all
 sides. Set the font to some fixed font of 10 characters per inch. If you
 don't have that sort of control,  Add eight spaces to the start of each 
line instead. Output them in plain ascii or text format. 

 5. Upload them and Email them to: smithre@mail.ctsfw.edu  
 If you can use MIME attachment, please do. If not, sending in a normal email
 body is fine. If this is not possible, send me a copy on an IBM PC formatted
 disk.

 6. Separate paragraphs with a blank line. Only one space should be used
 after punctuation to conserve disk space and bandwidth.

 7. In most cases, Bob Smith will need to check on the  work's copyright
 status before much is done. It would be a very big help, therefore, if 
you'd send him the full citation before you get too far in your conversion.

 8. Convert footnotes to endnotes, inclosing the number in  square brackets
 in both the text and the note.

 Example:

           Sihler volunteered to found a seminary in Ft. Wayne.[23]

           ______
           [23]For a discussion of this see Robert E. Smith, "The
           First Fort Wayne Phase of the Practical Seminary," _Essays
           and Reports of the 1995 Conference  on Archives and
           History_ (St. Louis: Concordia Historical Institute,
           1997).
 
 9. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to drop me an email
 note at smithre@mail.ctsfw.edu




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