Examples of Decorated Initials

Decorated initials should be flagged by preceding the letter with an underscore character (_). Decorated initials are typically produced by means of a square woodcut containing the letter itself as well as decorative elements (flowers, vines, faces, animals, etc.). "Framed" initials--produced by overprinting a typographic letter with a decorative frame--should be treated as decorated initials too.

Simple "drop caps" should, however, continue to be captured without any special treatment.

  1. Examples of decorated initials
  2. Example(s) of framed initials
  3. Examples of undecorated drop caps

Decorated initials

(Capture by inserting "_" before letter)

decorated a
Decorated A (_A)		 decorated t
Decorated T (_T)		 decorated s
Decorated S (_S)		 decorated a
Decorated A (_A)		 decorated a
Decorated A (_A)
decorated f
Decorated F (_F)		 decorated u
Decorated U (_U)		 decorated w
Decorated W (_W)		 decorated t
Decorated T (_T)		 decorated w
Decorated W (_W)
decorated i
Decorated I (_I)		 decorated m
Decorated M (_M)		 decorated r
Decorated R (_R)		 decorated r
Decorated R (_R)		 decorated c
Decorated C (_C)
decorated s
Decorated S (_S)		 decorated p
Decorated P (_P)		 decorated v
Decorated V (_V)		 decorated f
Decorated F (_F)
decorated t
Decorated T (_T)		 decorated t
Decorated T (_T)		 decorated i
Decorated I (_I)		 decorated k
Decorated K (_K)
decorated s
Decorated S (_S)		 decorated r
Decorated R (_R)		 decorated g
Decorated G (_G)
decorated m
Decorated M (_M)		 decorated i
Decorated I (_I)		 decorated m
Decorated M (_M)
decorated w
Decorated W (_W)		 decorated a
Decorated A (_A)

Framed initials

Capture by inserting "_" before letter

framed v treated as decorated v
Framed V (treat as decorated V)

Drop caps

Capture by recording letter only without special marking

drop cap A
Drop-cap A		 drop cap E
Drop-cap E		 drop cap T
Drop-cap T		 drop cap U
Drop-cap U