What is the quality and status of the Tripitaka texts at tipitaka.org?
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I am looking for high quality etexts of the Tripitaka and so far after weeks of search, the best place seems to be [tipitaka.org](https://www.tipitaka.org/sinh/) .
However, when looking at the texts, the punctuation and writing style is doesn't seem high quality to me, and I wonder how it compares to the "originals".
For example, look here:
> 358. කතමෙ ධම්මා කුසලා? යස්මිං සමයෙ ලොකුත්තරං ඣානං භාවෙති නිය්යානිකං අපචයගාමිං දිට්ඨිගතානං පහානාය පඨමාය භූමියා පත්තියා විවිච්චෙව කාමෙහි…පෙ.… පඨමං ඣානං උපසම්පජ්ජ විහරති දුක්ඛපටිපදං දන්ධාභිඤ්ඤං ඡන්දාධිපතෙය්යං…පෙ.… වීරියාධිපතෙය්යං…පෙ.… චිත්තාධිපතෙය්යං…පෙ.… වීමංසාධිපතෙය්යං, තස්මිං සමයෙ ඵස්සො හොති…පෙ.… අවික්ඛෙපො හොති…පෙ.… ඉමෙ ධම්මා කුසලා.
There are ellipses
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Things are aligned in several different ways as in the last image. Again, why so much random **bold**? And there's quotes
… everywhere, Latin punctuation like the question mark ? and period . everywhere. Some things are centered, some things are in **bold**, and not being a native reader, I am not sure what the significance of all these "features" are.
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Things are aligned in several different ways as in the last image. Again, why so much random **bold**? And there's quotes ".
I am just collecting these texts for later learning, and want to clean them up. What do I really need out of these texts? Do I need to keep the bold and centering and such (i.e., what information does it contain/encode?), or can I get rid of it? Are these ellipses some sort of signifier that the text is incomplete, or is it a list they are iterating over or something? Basically, can I remove the ellipses too?
Asked by Lance Pollard
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Oct 13, 2020, 01:05 AM
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