by
Isaac Watts
Information on the Book
Author: Isaac Watts
Title: The Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts
Information on the Electronic Edition
Scanner: Stephen Hutcheson
Proofreader: Stephen Hutcheson
Markup: Stephen Hutcheson
Editorial Comments:
This is the complete text of the printed edition, except:
Indexes for the first lines of verses were omitted.
One hymn by Isaac Watts was included from other sources.
These features of the printed text have been modified:
Font information was not saved by the OCR.
Page headers and footers are omitted.
Page numbers were shifted up or down to avoid breaking stanzas.
Text centering (of interludes, titles, etc) was not saved by the OCR.
When the _Topical Index of Psalms_ was inverted, two references
to nonexistant psalms (probably typographical errors) were removed.
Multicolumn formatting was not preserved.
Orthography was edited to facilitate automated use:
Decrypted Roman numerals in hymn numbers and Bible chapters.
Converted Bible references to "chapter:verse" format.
Removed word wrapping and concomitant hyphenation.
Americanized spelling (honor, center, today, etc).
Removed unneeded apostrophes (ev'ry==every, Abra'm==Abram, bless'd==blest,
crown'd==crowned, etc.; but not heav'n, gen'rous, etc.)
Moved footnotes from page footers to the end of the hymn.
Replaced relative meter ("as the 14th Psalm", etc.) with numeric notation
("8,8,8,8,8,8", etc.)
HTML semantics of whitespace are assumed in markup.
Introduced some ThML markup.
Revision History:
Status:
Profitable future work may include:
Corrections
Better formatting
Conversion of the scripture index from page numbers to hymn numbers
Addition of other indexes
Better ThML markup
Publisher ID: ccel
Author ID: watts
Book ID: psalmshymns
Copyright: This text is in the public domain.
Version: 0.8