## The Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence

### Coding conventions

#### Special characters

The conventions for rendering special characters are adopted from the Helsinki Corpus.

> Feature | Edition | PCEEC
> superscript | wch | w=ch=
> abbreviation | promocõns | promoco~ns
> accents | Trenyté | Trenyte` (note: acute/grave/circumflex not differentiated)
> thorn (upper case) | Þ | +T
> thorn (lower case) | þ | +t
> yogh (upper case) | 3orke | +Gorke
> yogh (lower case) | 3e | +ge
> pound sign | £4 | +L4

#### Text markup

The conventions used to indicate editorial comments and other types of text markup are the same as used in the PPCME2/PPCEME