A few points I didn't make clear in the first post:
- I'm not just citing a few texts; I'll be reproducing entire librettos.
- I have two source texts available to me, one "original" and one "modernized". My choice is pretty much just which of the two to use; I wouldn't have to go through and make the changes myself. I've got a list of the current official rules, and I think I could apply them properly, but that's more work than I care to do.
It's been a while since I've looked at that second source text (I used the first one in an earlier edition) so I don't recall exactly how much is changed in it. I'm pretty sure that ALL �'s were changed to ss, and all th's are changed to t. There may have been other changes I didn't notice.
- I'm definitely not using Fraktur!
I was already leaning toward sticking with the old spellings, and now I'm even more inclined in that direction. This comment from Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_spelling_reform_of_1996> also leads me in that direction: <<Classics are typically printed without changes, unless they are specific school editions.>>
I'm still interested in further opinions, if anyone else wants to chime in.
mdl
P.S. I've been getting "bounce" messages from an address on tuebingen.netsurf.de. Is anyone else getting these? I'm not sure what's triggering them, and it just occurred to me to wonder if it's the Finale list. The message doesn't quote my Finale post back at me, but maybe it's still connected somehow?
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