This Etext is encoded in a form which permits it to be both read directly (Plain Vanilla) and typeset in a form virtually indistinguishable from printed editions of the work.
To create "typographically friendly" Etexts, I adhere to the following rules:
1. Characters follow the 8-bit ISO 8859/1 Latin-1 character set. ASCII is a proper subset of this character set, so any "Plain ASCII" file meets ths criterion by definition. The extension to ISO 8859/1 is required so that Etexts which include the accented characters used by Western European languages may continue to be "readable by both humans and computers".
2. No white space characters other than blanks and line separators are used (in particular, tabs are expanded to spaces).
3. The text bracket sequence:
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
appears both before and after the actual body of the Etext.
This allows including an arbitrary prologue and epilogue to
the body of the document.
4. Normal body text begins in column 1 and is set ragged right with a line length of 70 characters. The choice of 70 characters is arbitrary and was made to avoid overly long and therefore less readable lines in the Plain Vanilla text.
5. Paragraphs are separated by blank lines.
6. Centring, right, and left justification is indicated by actually so-justifying the text within the 70 character line. Left justified lines should start in column 2 to avoid confusion with paragraph body text.
7. Block quotations are indented to start in column 5 and set ragged right with a line length of 60 characters.
8. Preformatted tables begin with a line which starts in column 3 and contains at least one sequence of three or more spaces between nonblanks. The table is formatted verbatim until the next blank line.