Abbreviations are all tagged as such and are not expanded, except within tags or ignore-brackets. Damaged, interlineated, and canceled text is all tagged as such. Spacing between words is irregular in Renaissance texts. Word-separator spaces are normally rendered as single, no matter how small or large the physical gap between the words or between them and marks of punctuation. The layout of each book is kept, including word-separation, lineation, indentation, paragraphing, and pagination, but this is managed by tagging rather than by trying to replicate the visual look of the text on screen.
All text is entered normally at the left margin nearest to where it appears.
Footnotes are tagged and entered after the last line of text on a page. Marginalia are tagged and entered at the start or at the end of the nearest line of the main text, depending on whether or not marginal notes appear to the left or to the right. They may be keyed to letters or numbers in the text by means of comments or tags if the text itself explicitly keys a note to the text. Blank space is usually ignored. The electronic transcription of an empty page includes essential page tags but has no blank spaces.