Front matter
Reading edition
[Transcriber's Note:
There were a LOT of inconsistencies in spelling, accents, hyphenation and use of quotation-marks. I decided to make it as consistent as possible, while trying to stay as close as possible to the scans.
Where hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of a word co-existed in the text (within lines) I converted to the hyphenated version, as those versions were by far the most common.
The use of the grave and acute accents (almost exclusively for emphasis in spoken fragments) was so inconsistent that there was no real bias to be found. I changed these to modern Dutch use, i.e. acute on long (use of) vowels and grave on short.
I tried to mess with the spelling as little as possible. 'bizonder' and 'bijzonder' and their variants were changed to 'byzonder' as this was about 50 times more common. 'Lodewijk van Deyssel' was spelled as 'Deijssel' in the index only. That was corrected.
There were more mismatched (double) quotes than I cared to count. Some spoken paragraphs were not quoted at all. I have done the best I could, and made the following changes where mismatches occurred: Spoken paragraphs all start with double quotes ("). They only end on double quotes if 1) The speaker changes, or the next paragraph is non-spoken text. 2) They are at the end of a chapter. This is how modern written Dutch (and I believe English) handles it.
Eric Casteleijn]