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-            FIELD MARKS FOR WEBSTER 1913 and CIDE
-            =====================================
-     Explanations of the tags used to mark the Webster 1913 dictionary
-and the CIDE (Collaborative International Dictionary of English).
-Note that the list of tags used to mark the public domain version
-of this dictionary is shorter than the full set described here.
-    If any tag is not listed here, it is either (1) one of the 
-"point" (font size) or "type" (font style) tags, which should be
-self-explanatory; or (2) is a functional field with no effect on the
-typography.
+FIELD MARKS FOR WEBSTER 1913 and CIDE
+=====================================
+
+* Overview
+
+This file describes the tags used to mark the Webster 1913 dictionary and
+the GCIDE (GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English).
+
+If any tag is not listed here, it is either (1) one of the "point" (font
+size) or "type" (font style) tags, which should be self-explanatory; or (2)
+is a functional field with no effect on the typography.
 
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-A separate file, webfont.txt, contains the list of the individual 
+
+A separate file, webfont.txt, contains the list of the individual
 non-ASCII characters represented by either higher-order hexadecimal
-character marks (e.g., \'94, for o-umlaut) or by entity tags
-(e.g., <root/, for the square root symbol.)
---------------------------------------------------------------
-     Use of tags:
-     In the MICRA electronic version of the 1913 Webster, each part of
-the entry headed by an entry word ("headword") is labeled so that no
-part of the entry except some punctuation marks should be found
-outside of all fields, i.e. every character should be within some tagged
-field.  In the following description, the word "segment" usually refers to 
-a major part of an entry such as an etymology or a definition or a 
-collocation segment or a usage block, containing more than one field.
-The term "field" may also be used similarly to "segment", but may also
-denote single-word fields, such as an alternative spelling, labeled <asp>.
-
-   Note: The tags on this list are similar in structure to SGML tags.  Each
-tag on this list  marks a field; each field opens with a tagname between
-angle brackets thus: <tagname>, and closes with a similar tag containing
-the forward slash thus: </tagname>.  No tags are used without closing
-tags.  Thus the HTML <BR> to indicate a line break is symbolized
-here as an entity, <br/, and every <p> has a corresponding </p>.
-    The absence of an end-field tag, or the presence of an end-field tag
-without a prior begin-field tag constitutes a typographical error, of which
-there may be a significant number.  Any errors detected should be brought
-to the attention of PJC or the appropriate editor.
-   Most of the tagged fields are presented in the text in italic type, 
-with a number of exceptions.  Where a word is contained within more than 
-one field, the innermost field determines the font to be used.  Wherever
-recognizable functional fields were found, an attempt was made to tag the
-field with a functional mark, but in many cases, words were italicised only
-to represent the word itself as a discourse entity, and in some such cases,
-the "italic" mark <it> was used, implying nothing regarding functionality
-of the word.  The base font is considered "plain".  Where an italic field
-is indicated, parentheses or brackets within the field are not italicised.
-   Where no font is specified for a tag, the tag is merely a functional
+character marks (e.g., \'94, for o-umlaut) or by entity tags (e.g.,
+<root/, for the square root symbol.)
+
+* Introduction
+
+In the MICRA electronic version of the 1913 Webster and in GCIDE, each part
+of the entry headed by an entry word ("headword") is labeled so that no part
+of the entry except some punctuation marks should be found outside of all
+fields, i.e. every character should be within some tagged field.  In the
+following description, the word "segment" usually refers to a major part of
+an entry such as an etymology or a definition or a collocation segment or a
+usage block, containing more than one field.  The term "field" may also be
+used similarly to "segment", but may also denote single-word fields, such as
+an alternative spelling, labeled <asp>.
+
+The tags on this list are similar in structure to SGML tags.  Each tag on
+this list marks a field; each field opens with a tagname between angle
+brackets thus: <tagname>, and closes with a similar tag containing the
+forward slash thus: </tagname>.  No tags are used without closing tags.
+Thus a line break (similar to HTML <br> tag) is symbolized here as an
+entity, <br/, and every <p> has a corresponding </p>.
+
+The absence of an end-field tag, or the presence of an end-field tag without
+a prior begin-field tag constitutes a typographical error, of which there
+may be a significant number.  Any errors detected should be brought to the
+attention of PJC or the appropriate editor.
+
+Most of the tagged fields are presented in the text in italic type, with a
+number of exceptions.  Where a word is contained within more than one field,
+the innermost field determines the font to be used.  Wherever recognizable
+functional fields were found, an attempt was made to tag the field with a
+functional mark, but in many cases, words were italicised only to represent
+the word itself as a discourse entity, and in some such cases, the "italic"
+mark <it> was used, implying nothing regarding functionality of the word.
+The base font is considered "plain".  Where an italic field is indicated,
+parentheses or brackets within the field are not italicised.
+
+Where no font is specified for a tag, the tag is merely a functional
 division, and was printed in plain font unless otherwise tagged.  This type
-of segment is marked by an asterisk (*) where the font name would be.
-   The size of the "plain" font in the original text is about 1.6 mm for
-the height of capitalized letters.
-=============================================================
-Explicit typographical tags:
-   These were used where the purpose of a different font was merely to
-distinguish a word from the body of the text, and no explicit functional
-tag seemed apropriate.
------------------------------------
-Tag        Font
------------------------------------
-Explicit formatting tags:
-. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
-<plain>    plain font (that used in the body of a definition) --
-              normally not marked, except within fields of
-              a different front.
-<it>       italic  (in master files)
-<i>        italic  (for use in HTML presentation)
-<bold>     bold    (in master files)
-<b>        bold    (for use in HTML presentation)
-<colf>   bold,    Collocation font.  Same font as used in collocations.
-        smaller      This is used only in the list of "un-" words not
-        by 1 point   actually defined in the dictionary.  Probably could be
-                     replaced by a segment mark for the entire list!
-                     The "un-" words should be indexed as headwords.
-
-<ct>   bold    Same as <colf>, a font similar to that used in 
-                 collocations.  However, this tag is used in a table
-                 and could be set to a different font.
-
-<h1>      *     HTML tag -- largest heading font.
-
-<h2>      *     HTML tag -- second largest heading font.
-
-<headrow> *    Marks a Row title in a table.
-
-<hwf>      Font the same as the headword <hw>, though the field is
-                 not a headword.  Used only once.
-
-<mitem>  *   Multiple items, a set of items in a table.
-<point ...> A series of point size markers, many unique.
-<point1.5> *  One of the tags of the form <point**> where **
-<point6>        represents the typographic point size of the 
-                enclosed text.
-<pre>     An HTML tag indicating that the enclosed text is
-             of teletype form, preformatted in a uniform-spaced
-             font.
-<sc>       small caps    (used mostly for "a. d.",  "b. c.")
-              This is the same font a <er>, but has no functional
-              or semantic significance
-<str>       group of table data elements in a table
-<sub>       subscript, like <subs>
-<subs>      subscript
-<sups>      superscript
-<supr>      superscript
-<sansserif> Sans-serif font
-<stypec>    Bold (collocation font) and also a subtype.
-<tt>         HTML tage -- teletype font
-<universbold>  A squared bold font without serifs approximating the
-               "universe bold" font on the HP Laserjet4, slightly 
-               larger than the capitals in a definition body.  Used
-               in expositions describing shapes, such as
-                  "Y", "T", "U", "X", "V", "F".
-<vertical>  Vertically organized column.
-<column1>   Vertically organized column -- only part of a table
-              which needs to be completed.  Used once.
-<...type>   A series of tags, many unique, designating certain
-              unusual fonts, such as "bourgeoistype" for
-              "bourgeois type", in the section on typography.
-           Most of these occur only once, in the section on fonts.
+of segment is marked by an asterisk (*) where the font name would be.  The
+size of the "plain" font in the original text is about 1.6 mm for the height
+of capitalized letters.
+
+* Explicit typographical tags
+
+These were used where the purpose of a different font was merely to
+distinguish a word from the body of the text, and no explicit functional tag
+seemed apropriate.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tag           Font         Description 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+<plain>       plain font   that used in the body of a definition -- normally
+                           not marked, except within fields of a different
+                           front.
+                           
+<it>          italic       in master files
+
+<i>           italic       for use in HTML presentation
+
+<bold>        bold         in master files
+
+<b>           bold         for use in HTML presentation
+
+<colf>        bold,        Collocation font.  Same font as used in
+                           collocations. 
+              smaller      This is used only in the list of "un-"
+              by 1 point   words not actually defined in the
+                           dictionary. 
+                           Probably could be replaced by a segment mark
+                           for the entire list!  The "un-" words should
+                           be indexed as headwords.
+                           
+<ct>          bold         Same as <colf>, a font similar to that used 
+                           in collocations.  However, this tag is used
+                           in a table and could be set to a different
+                           font.
+                           
+<h1>          *            HTML tag -- largest heading font.
+
+<h2>          *            HTML tag -- second largest heading font.
+
+<headrow>     *            Marks a Row title in a table.
+
+<hwf>                      Font the same as the headword <hw>, though
+                           the field is not a headword.  Used only
+                           once.
+                           
+<mitem>       *            Multiple items, a set of items in a table.
+<point ...>                A series of point size markers, many
+                           unique.
+                           
+<point1.5>    *            One of the tags of the form <point**> where **
+<point6>                   represents the typographic point size of the 
+                           enclosed text.
+                           
+<pre>                      An HTML tag indicating that the enclosed
+                           text is of teletype form, preformatted in a
+                           uniform-spaced font.
+                           
+<sc>          small caps   used mostly for "a. d.",  "b. c."
+                           This is the same font as in <er>, but has no
+                           functional or semantic significance.
+                           
+<str>                      group of table data elements in a table.
+
+<sub>         subscript
+
+<subs>        subscript
+
+<sups>        superscript
+
+<supr>        superscript
+
+<sansserif>   Sans-serif
+
+<stypec>      Bold         collocation font, and also a subtype.
+
+<tt>                       HTML tage -- teletype font
+
+<universbold>              A squared bold font without serifs approximating
+                           the "universe bold" font on the HP Laserjet4,
+                           slightly larger than the capitals in a definition
+                           body.  Used in expositions describing shapes,
+                           such as "Y", "T", "U", "X", "V", "F".
+                           
+<vertical>                 Vertically organized column.
+
+<column1>                  Vertically organized column -- only part of a table
+                           which needs to be completed.  Used once.
+                           
+<...type>                  A series of tags, many unique, designating