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In a world of fully integrated software applications, which can seem daunting to develop and to maintain, it is sometimes useful to recall that a system of loosely-linked software components can provide surprisingly powerful and flexible methods for software development.
This paper describes a project which aims to retypeset a series of volumes fr...
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... that the marriage entries were commencing in the second year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth and would be recorded, in perpetuity, as laid down in the edict of Henry VIII in 1538. The Phillimore editors and printers took up the challenge of replicating this opening page as best they could and a scanned version of what they produced appears in Fig. 2(a). A cursory glance shows that the typeface is some sort of cursive blackletter, much like the early types used for English printing by Cax- ton in the late 15th century. Now, the style of handwriting on which Caxton's types were based is called Bâtarde, and more particularly, Burgundian Bâtarde, owing to its popu- larity among the ...
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... from Bigelow and Holmes which has rather more ornate capital letters than the original mate- rial but otherwise bears a remarkable resemblance to it. With permission from Bigelow and Holmes the stems of the lower-case letters b, l, h and d were altered, in Fontogra- pher, to give a better match to the original face. The results are shown in Fig. ...
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... In previous work [1,2] a set of software tools was developed which enabled scanned pages of printed English Marriage Registers to be re-typeset, and indexed. The printed originals were published in the early years of the 20th century by the Phillimore company as an aid to genealogical researchers. ...
The Phillimore Marriage Registers for England were published in the period 1896 to 1922 and have defined a standard layout format for the typesetting of marriage data. However, not all English parish churches had their marriage registers analysed and printed by the Phillimore organisation within this time period.
This paper tells the story of Wirksworth, a town in Derbyshire with a large church, licensed for marriages, yet whose marriage data was not released to the Phillimore organisation. Hence there is no printed Phillimore Marriages volume for Wirksworth. However, in recent years, a Wirksworth web site, created by John Palmer, has become famous as being probably the most comprehensive record of a parish’s activities anywhere on the Web.
Within a total of 120 MB of data on the web site, covering events in Wirksworth from medieval times to the present, is a set of data recording births, marriages and deaths transcribed from the original hand-written church register volumes.
The work described here covers the software tools and techniques that were used in creating a set of awk scripts to extract all the marriage records from the Wirksworth web site data. The extracted material was then automatically re-processed, typeset and indexed to form an entirely new Phillimore-style volume for Wirksworth marriages.
