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- # Transcriber’s Notes
## Overview
The "Transcriber's Notes" is a backmatter section of the digitized text, appearing at the end of the work. It spans lines 12841 to 12869 of the source file `billy_budd.txt`. This section provides details about the transcription process and any modifications made to the original text.
## Context
This backmatter is part of the larger work "[Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces](arke:01KG6GJKJ0PQQH41HGQ3BBMH23)", a collection of literary works. The notes were extracted from the plain text file `billy_budd.txt` and are included within the "[Test Collection](arke:01KG2T49K0H5GDRB0G4YDTPG8H)". The preceding segment is titled "MAJOR GENTIAN AND COLONEL J. BUNKUM".
## Contents
The "Transcriber's Notes" contains information regarding the transcription of "[Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces](arke:01KG6GJKJ0PQQH41HGQ3BBMH23)". It states that new original cover art is in the public domain and that underscores (`_`) are used to denote italic text. The notes also provide an itemized list of specific changes made during transcription, including:
* Supplying a comma on page 8.
* Adding an opening single quotation mark on page 155.
* Adding a closing single quotation mark on page 223.
* Changing a period to a question mark on page 225.
* Supplying a comma on page 238.
* Correcting "no-so-common" to "not-so-common" on page 365.
* Replacing a question mark with a period on page 375.
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New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public
domain. This file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text.
Itemized changes from the original text:
• p. 8: Supplied comma in phrase “found in every vocation, even the
humbler ones” as suggested by end-of-line spacing.
• p. 155: Supplied opening single quotation mark before phrase ‘it’s
plain that you have not heard the crow of the Emperor of China’s
chanticleer.’
• p. 223: Supplied closing single quotation mark after phrase ‘to
believe in the possibility of his existence.’
• p. 225: Replaced period with question mark after phrase ‘with the
poor, commonplace plodder Hautboy, an American of forty?’
• p. 238: Supplied comma in phrase ‘Sir, this is the very Paradise of
Bachelors!’ as suggested by end-of-line spacing.
• p. 365: Replaced ‘no-so-common’ with ‘not-so-common’ in phrase ‘thy
not-so-common virtues.’
• p. 375: Replaced question mark with period after phrase ‘That is in
compliment to our revolutionary ally.’
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