Guidelines for Transliteration

1. Save your work regularly!!
2. Transliterate the document in the order you would read it. 
3. What's important is are the words on the page that help make the document searchable. So don't worry about formatting, like underlined words, line breaks and so on (even though line breaks may help you get organised).
4. Use square brackets for anything that's not a word. If there's anything you want to note down that isn't a word, like the presence of a picture, you can write your notes in square brackets like [picture of bird]. Or if you want to note a word you're unsure of you can put it in like this [read or reed?]
5. You don't have to correct spelling and grammar or fill in abbreviations. The only exception would be to remove hyphens in hyphenated words so that the word can be searched. 
6. Don't worry! If something is puzzling you, take a break, or try something else. Someone else can work on it!