Modern LaTeX Editions of Public-Domain Mathematics Manuscripts

This record is the public front page for an ongoing project to produce modern, inspectable LaTeX editions of older mathematics and physics manuscripts, especially works that are public-domain or otherwise suitable for public scholarly transcription. The immediate goal is a clean original-language typesetting layer: readable LaTeX PDFs, corresponding TeX/source files, source-witness scans or references, provenance notes, and quality-control manifests. Translation is a later layer once the source-language editions are stable. The project is deliberately a working corpus, not a final critical edition. Machine-assisted transcription, OCR cleanup, layout repair, source comparison, and human review are all in progress. Files are published here when they are useful for inspection and correction, but the manifests should be consulted before treating any individual item as polished. At-a-glance status for this version: Current published release surface: [##########] 100% carried forward from v15 into v16. No whole works were removed in this replacement pass. Represented work packages: [##########] 31/31 current per-work artifact packages are present. Reader-facing LaTeX PDFs: [#########-] 28/31 represented packages have standalone top-level PDFs, about 90% of the current release surface. Artifact ZIP coverage: [##########] 31/31 represented packages have per-work artifact ZIPs with TeX/source material, provenance/QC files, and available reference material. Publisher-apparatus replacement on initially hard-held work packages: [##########] 6/6 first-pass replacements are now complete across v15-v16. v15 cleaned Fricke-Klein automorphic functions vol. II, Landau Handbuch band I, and the Dedekind/Landau Grundlagen package. v16 adds Hausdorff, Kummer, and Poincare replacement cleanup. Nested artifact hard-marker check for the v16 pass: [##########] 3/3 newly processed packages now report zero configured hard publisher-marker rows after cleanup. Transcription/layout polish: [###-------] early working-draft stage. Some PDFs are readable draft editions, some TeX still needs compile/layout repair, and all mathematical content remains open to proofreading against witnesses. Non-European / Central Asian source-manuscript release layer: [----------] not yet incorporated here. Local handoff/download packets exist, but those materials are not yet converted into this public LaTeX release layer. Translation layer: [----------] not yet incorporated here except for coordination/source packets outside the release layer. Overall long-term corpus goal: early proof-of-concept subset. The percentages above describe this Zenodo release surface, not completion of every work by every relevant author. What changed in v16 while preserving availability: the v15 corpus was copied forward in full. Selected publisher/imprint/collected-volume apparatus was stripped or replaced in the Hausdorff, Kummer, and Poincare packages. Affected direct PDFs and artifact ZIPs were rebuilt or page-stripped only where configured hard publisher markers were found. The v16 full-repo ZIP was rebuilt from the current v16 payload. How the files are organized: 00_pdf__... files are reader-facing LaTeX-generated PDFs. They are placed first so individual PDFs can be found quickly. 10_artifacts__... files are per-work artifact ZIPs. These contain TeX/source material, provenance/QC files, and available reference material for checking or rebuilding the work. 80_... files are manifests, audit summaries, replacement reports, packaging notes, and cleanup queues. 99_full_repo__... is a bulk ZIP for people who want the whole current release at once. Quality and cleanup policy: top-level PDFs should be generated reader PDFs rather than loose scans. Scans and reference PDFs belong inside the per-work artifact ZIPs. Publisher or collected-edition front matter, title pages, prefaces, ISBN/copyright pages, and running headers are being stripped or replaced as packages are rebuilt. Availability remains the higher priority: cleanup should produce replacement files rather than dropping whole works from the current public corpus. Use guidance: readers who only want a typeset draft should download a 00_pdf__... file. Editors, proofreaders, or downstream agents should download the corresponding 10_artifacts__... ZIP. Anyone reusing the corpus should keep the PDF, TeX, and source-witness/provenance material together so errors can be checked against the source. Forward plan: continue consolidating Kimi/web-session outputs, repair compile/layout failures, cut collected works into clean per-paper or per-work units, strip remaining publisher apparatus, add non-European and Central Asian materials after transcription, and then add translation layers once the original-language TeX is stable.