2.5 Calendared Items When documents are calendared, they are printed without salutation and complimentary close, in order to save space. In drafting the abstract, the editors attempt to capture all the intelligence of the letter, quoting it where necessary. In general, abstracts are about half as long as the original. The project tries to err by giving too much content and detail, rather than too little. Items calendared are, in general, those the project identifies as the less essential to historical work.
Indices allow documents to be retrieved by correspondent, date, repository.
Disks and ribbon copies are kept in a fire-proof safe. The Greene Papers project attempts to cite, on a map, each and every place name mentioned in a volume, though not places which appear in place-date lines but which are not mentioned in any text. In an electronic edition, it would be useful to establish hypertext links between such names and the maps. Other illustrations in the edition include portraits, battle maps drawn by contemporaries, pictures of houses, etc. 2.8 Computer Use Typesetting codes have been entered manually by the staff, to speed production at the press.