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0.9 The Nachlass 11 November 2026

• Schelling’s Nachlass, 45 texts. Alongside the Sämmtliche Werke, the edition now contains openly available texts from the Schelling. Nachlass-Edition, a joint project of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the University of Freiburg and the University of Vienna: from the first Munich period the printed versions, drafts and fragments of the Ages of the World, further manuscripts and calendars; from Berlin the First Lecture of 1841, a student transcript of the Philosophy of Revelation of 1841/42 and its text in the Sämmtliche Werke. About 800,000 words in all (Nachlass).
• Addendum of 13 November. Three Berlin texts that the Nachlass-Edition provisionally lists as “Preview” and is still revising (the Berlin Introduction of 1844 and two student transcripts) have been taken out again at the editors’ request; they will follow once published, announced for early 2027. Each text now opens with the citation given by the Nachlass-Edition.
• Their work. These texts were deciphered, dated and marked up by the projects “Schelling in München” (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and University of Freiburg, funded by the DFG) and “Schelling in Berlin” (University of Vienna, funded by the FWF, project P 34383). We take over their reading texts under CC BY 4.0 and typeset them anew without changing the wording; every paragraph number links to the original.
• TEI. Every text can be downloaded as TEI P5, converted back from the pages of the Nachlass-Edition and checked against them character by character.
• Reading. Deletions and the editors’ summaries can be shown or hidden; changes of leaf and page are marked in the text.

Addendum of 12 November 2026: 25 pages corrected

• Remnants of the electronic source removed. When the electronic source was split into pages, an overview from its introduction ended up at the head of 46 pages. On 25 of them it had left traces: ellipses at the start of the page, square brackets inside words, and at the start of several pages printed words were missing (for instance “wird der” on SW I/6, 95). The pages have been reset and checked against the scans of both copies.
• Twelve corrected misprints. In the process twelve obvious misprints have been corrected, for instance SW I/7, 554 wiel → weil. They are listed in the Guidelines; in the TEI the printed form is kept in a sic element. All other misprints remain.

0.84 Header, menu and two views 9 November 2026

• Two views, two measures. The reading text uses the width of the window up to 44 em (about 90 characters per line) and grows with it; the print view stays with the print, with its lines and margin numbers. The “line length” setting is gone.
• One button for the display. At the right of the header every page has “Aa”: the colour scheme (System, Light, Dark), and in the reader also type size, emphasis and the copying options. The half-circle for light and dark is gone.
• Phone. A menu with every item and the three editions; in the reading bar a magnifier opens the search field across the full width; header and bar step aside while you read and return when you scroll back; no target is smaller than 44 pixels.
• Settings carry across the editions. Moving from one edition to another takes colour scheme, type size, view and language along.
• A shorter start page. Method and limits are in the guidelines; the open data are one line below the volumes.
• Portraits. The three portraits of the editions are set as a series: same crop, same eye line, same tone.

0.83 Colour, type and phone 9 November 2026

• Colours with roles. Gold shows where you are: the active menu item carries a gold line, and “TEI” in the list of volumes rests quietly on a hairline. Red is kept for what leads away: links and “Open in print view”.
• No type below 13 pixels. Volume details, page numbers, labels and tables of contents are nowhere set smaller any more.
• Search on the phone. The search scopes sit on one line; after the first search the title shrinks, and the first passage is visible without scrolling.
• Reading text on the phone. Below 480 pixels of width the reading text is set ragged right with hyphenation instead of justified; the print view stays as printed.

0.82 Typesetting in the reader 9 November 2026

• A wider reading measure. Type and column of the reading text grow with the screen: on a large monitor the text is set larger and wider, without running to the edge. In the reader’s settings the measure can be made narrower or wider. The print view stays as printed.
• Hyphenation and word spacing. The English pages now also hyphenate the text by German rules. Lines with conspicuously wide word spaces are about three quarters less frequent as a result.
• Verse, schemata and tables. In the reading text they keep their printed lines instead of running into justified prose; date and signature at the end of a letter stand as in print.
• Paragraphs across page breaks. When a paragraph continues on the next page, the reading text carries it on without a break.
• Printed tables of contents. They are set with dot leaders, and their page numbers lead to the passage.
• You stay in place. Switching between reading text and print view, or changing the type size or measure, keeps you at the same passage.
• Figures and notes. All figures are present and shown in full. Note references have been checked against the scan and corrected, 110 leftover hyphens resolved; the poems in I/10 are set as poems.

0.81 TEI in the DTA base format 8 November 2026

• One download format. The TEI files on the home page and in the reader under “Data” are now in the DTA base format (DTABf), the TEI format of the Deutsches Textarchiv. Every file is checked against the DTABf schema and rules, and its text matches the reader page for page.
• Paragraphs across page breaks. Until now the TEI file closed the paragraph at every page break and began a new one. Now a paragraph that continues on the next page stays one paragraph, with the page break inside it. Whether it continues was decided at every page break from the text or, where the text leaves it open, from the indent of the first line in the scan.
• Roman type marked. Roman type in the middle of the Fraktur print is marked as its own emphasis in the DTABf (rendition="#aq"), also together with letter-spacing.

0.7 Read anew from the print: all fourteen volumes checked 7 November 2026

Version 0.7 in pictures →Home page, procedure, accuracy, print layout, contents, and search, with screenshots and the comparison with version 0.30.

Compared with version 0.30

• Every 28th word is different. 82,680 words of the main text now stand as the print has them: “Ich setzte voraus” instead of “setze” (SW I/4, 87), “treten” instead of “terten” (II/4, 122), “Menschengeschlechts” instead of “Menschgeschlechts” (II/1, 98).
• Greek legible. In 0.30 it was garbled in 487 places (“γυμνοί äc καί T ρωτοι”); now 58,350 Greek characters stand in polytonic Unicode (“γυμνοὶ δὲ καὶ ἄστρωτοι”, SW I/1, 19).
• Notes in their place. Instead of one collective block per page, 3,423 individual notes, each linked to its reference in the text.
• More structure. 944 instead of 215 contents entries, 250,747 numbered printed lines, 6,425 marked passages in roman type (Antiqua); 0.30 had none of this.
• All comparisons, passage by passage →

The text

• Recovered anew, page by page. All 7,881 printed pages of the Sämmtliche Werke have been checked against the scan. The text is produced from three readings: an older electronic transcription and the OCR of two copies of the print from the Bavarian State Library. A word is accepted without checking only if neither of the two OCR readings contradicts it and at least one confirms it.
• Decided against the image. Every other passage is decided by machine against the scan of the page, letter by letter, not by sense. Each page is also read through as a whole against the scan; whatever cannot be settled conclusively goes into a second round (Procedure).
• 8,931 improvements over the electronic source text, about one per page: misreadings, silent smoothings, garbled Greek. Genuine misprints of the volume are retained.
• As printed. Greek in polytonic Unicode, letter-spaced type marked, words set in roman type (Antiqua) recognizable, the notes in their place.

Accuracy

• 26 pages read independently. The text of the Freedom essay (SW I/7) agrees with them word for word and line for line: 7,822 words, 712 lines, including letter-spaced type and paragraphs.
• Inserted errors. Of 40 plausible errors inserted into pages as a test, the procedure found 38.
• Two copies. The second OCR reads genuine misprints literally where the first smooths them over. In a test, a weaker OCR would have missed 7 of 43 genuine errors.
• Still open are three pages not yet decided against the scan: SW I/3, 153; I/4, 295; I/10, 197.

Reading and contents

• Print layout with lines. Alongside the reading text, every page appears line for line as in the volume, numbered in the margin; citations give division (Abtheilung), volume, page, and line (SW II/1, 456.12).
• Contents based on the print. 944 entries, aligned with the printed tables of contents and synopses.
• Marginal labels. 388 synopsis items have no heading in the text; the contents jump to the paragraph where they begin, and their title stands there as a marginal label, an addition of this edition. In the contents they appear more quietly than real headings.
• Quotations instead of false headings. 122 verses, mottos, and formulas that the print sets off in the center appear as quotations within the running text.

Search and data

• Full-text search across all fourteen volumes, every passage cited down to the printed line, with the section in which it occurs and the number of hits per volume; one click opens the print layout at exactly that passage.
• TEI for every volume (P5), the same data from which the reader builds its pages; the round-trip test is identical for all volumes. The text is in the public domain; the data are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Reuse).

0.30 First version May to August 2026

• The fourteen volumes based on an older electronic transcription, 7,762 pages with paragraphs, headings, and notes, not yet checked against the print.
• Contents of the first division (Abtheilung) entered by hand, those of the second taken over from the source text.