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The site gives access to diverse published texts, such as entire books (as the [[Alphonse de Candolle, Origine des plantes cultivées. 1882 and 1886.|Origin of cultivated plants]]) or quotations. The principle is to respect litterally the text as it was published. There may subsist errors due to copying or coming from OCR, and corrections are welcome. But they should absolutely be done by checking in the original work. If the author or the publisher has left errors, they must '''not ''' be corrected.

Par contreHowever, pour les textes anciensin the case of old texts, on pourra définir des normes particulièresparticular standards can be defined. En français par exempleIn French for example, l'usage de use of i/j ou de or u/v n'était pas le même dans les siècles passéswas not the same in past centuries, et on peut décider d'adopter l'and it can be decided to adopt modern usage moderne pour une meilleure lisibilitéfor the sake of a better legibility. De même les manuscrits et les incunables utilisent souvent des signes composés pour écrire certaines terminaisons Similarly, manuscripts and incunabula often use composed signs to write some terminations ; il vaut mieux alors éviter ces signesit is better to avoid such signs.

Quotations are useful even if they are second hand. In this case, they are often faulty, incomplete or distorted. So you are invited to correct them, but always by checking on in the original. As any quotation is inserted in a longer text, you may also add some omitted text, but always respecting the original.