Typographical and Editorial Notes

Text documents are processed in Word 2010; charts and diagrams, in Visio 2010; slide presentations, in Power Point 2010. In order to preserve the intended layout, Word and Visio files have been converted to Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). Readers for the latter and the slide presentations (PPT) can be freely obtained from the Internet.

Headings and side captions function as subtitles. When read sequentially, they are designed to impart the salient points of the entire compilation. Selections for which no side captions were thought necessary are differentiated from the editors’ text by a wider left margin.

Authorities and annotations are marked by bold, superscripted Hindu-Arabic numerals. References to frequently quoted works are abridged as indicated in the “Compassion” book and other major works. Greek accents and breathings have been abandoned altogether.

The North American usage of double quotation marks and punctuation is adopted throughout: commas and periods are kept inside quotation marks; colons and semicolons, outside. Since, however, every selection is strictly speaking a quotation, inverted commas are omitted throughout unless a particular selection was a quotation in the first place.

The illustrations are selected by the editors of the present series and are varied from time to time.

As from 20 October 2011, Train of Thoughts and Table of Contents entries in long documents double as hyperlinks. When hovering over any such entry, the cursor changes into a hand with an outstretched index finger, suggesting an underlying link that can be activated.

All study notes are revised regularly. The latest version number and date uploaded are displayed in the footer.