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This edition of Gustav Fechner’s Büchlein vom Leben nach dem Tode (Treatise Concerning Life After Death) was prepared starting with an OCR (optical character recognition) scan of the 1904 edition, acquired on the Internet. By means of a pipeline of XSLT stylesheets (six simple transformations in total) the plain text was converted into a rudimentary XML format conformant to the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative. Copy editing to correct the text and enhance the encoding was then accomplished by hand, along with development of transformations to convert the text into HTML for web display and to XSL formatting objects (FO) for conversion into PDF. The image appearing in Chapter 3 was encoded in SVG by hand, as was the cover art.

All editing and transformation work was done in oXygen XML Editor. PDF was generated using the RenderX XEP processor.

The design of the page layout is based on the design of the original 1904 edition, with some adjustments for readability. Hyphenation is provided by XEP using a TeX algorithm. The font is Cambria (distributed in Microsoft Windows 7) with Tahoma for metadata and colophon pages.

For more information on this project, see http://piez.org/wendell/​projects/buechlein/.