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Progetti relativi a testi elettronici a Roma, accademia dei lincei e Università La Sapienza
CISADU - Fac. di Lettere, P.zale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy E-mail: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniromal.it
In the 1980s a group of scholars in Rome studied the methods of humanities computing, and elaborated a theory of the correct use of the computer in the different disciplines. Concerning electronic editions of texts, it is essential that they preserve all the information present in the representation on paper, which goes beyond the sequence of letters. According to this principle, two enterprises have been initiated, which are described here.