Determine whether the arrangement of text on the page is significant, whether the order of lines and words is replaceable.
The new breed of scribes turned out some of the finest manuscripts of any age; they are rightly considered calligraphers for their attention to the careful formation of letters and arrangement of text.
The design and arrangement of text, the presence of illustrations, the availability of foldouts and moving parts, all influence the manner in which the reader interacts with the words.
Common word processing software doesn't make this type of layout work easy; however, I have recently discovered some simple tricks in Microsoft Word that can be employed to achieve a more pleasing arrangement of text.
Most scribal errors in them were corrected at an early stage, and despite the usual obstacles to be encountered in texts on papyrus, (such as the absence of word-breaks and of a standard, comprehensive system of punctuation, and the arrangement of text continuously, in columns, rather than by chapters or sections), the result is a clean and intelligible text where it can be read.
It may be possible to mimic this kind of spatial arrangement of texts by opening a separate window on one's computer for each digital text, but most people will probably find it difficult to navigate among them to quickly find a particular text.
The libretto published in Venice in 1622 takes the form of a prologue and eight scenes, although other arrangements of the text have been suggested.
The proposed paper will argue that the different codicological arrangements of the texts in the Guodian manuscript Xing zi ming chu and the Shanghai museum manuscript Xing qing lun reflect different stages in text accretion.
The tablets show evidence of the early transcription of texts into foreign languages and scripts, classification and cataloging for easier retrieval, and arrangement by size, form, and content.
Elizabeth Morrison, senior curator of manuscripts at the Getty Museum, told me that this was adduced from the liturgical arrangement of the text (and possibly from the cantillation marks).
