VMs: New VMS pdf

[Ken W <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Once again obsession is trumping my responsibility...

I'm hoping to recompile a pdf of the complete MS if there is interest 
and it is not breaking any laws.

What I hope to do is create a digital equivalent to the physical  
manuscript.  Here are some of the features I would love to include:

-  The quires can be grouped as they exist, yet I would love the ability 
for someone to easily rearrange the folios and quires to experiment. -  
Alignment (where possible) of recto and verso sides so a print out would 
register as in the physical MS.
-  Recreation of the foldouts which could also be printed or viewed as 
they exist.
-  Imbedded page data (i.e.., Takahashi transcription, word counts, 
distribution analysis, etc.).
-  Ability for any user to insert notes and comments which can be 
exchanged between researchers.
-  It may not be the most scientific approach but I do believe with the 
features on Acrobat 6 and some simple programming, it is possible to do 
OCR compiling from the pdf.  One possible use of this could be to create 
a font breakdown (i.e., stroke based or an alternate letter definition) 
and run an analysis on the text.  If there is any use for this, let me know.
-  Anything else anyone can think of...

My hope is to create a "physical" reference with as much of the compiled 
knowledge already in existence.  I have a scaled, printed and bound 
version of the previous pdf and I believe there is something intangibly 
advantageous to holding and flipping through a reproduction of the MS 
which one cannot get from piecemeal analysis of digital images alone.

Ken Walczak
801 Design


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