This book uses a variety of special characters, some of which are
easily representable in a text font, some of which are not.

ð (eth) and þ/Þ (thorn/Thorn) are as-is. Yough is represented as the
two-character sequence 3*.

The special characters æ/Æ (ae/AE) do not have accented forms in
the standard text font, so when accented have been written as æ*
and Æ*.

Long marks over Latin vowels have been marked as u*, etc.

End-of-line hyphens present a significant problem in this book, as
many different languages are used, some of which hyphenate many
words. For the most part these end-of-line hyphens have been joined;
on occasion they are marked as -*.

Greek words are transliterated using the standard Gutenberg scheme.

Italics are marked _thus_, and boldface ~thus~.

Finally, the "additions and corrections" at the end have been added
into the main text, marked by [Addition] or [Correction] after the
entry.

Images of this book are available at http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/concise/

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