The four versions of Orwell's 1984 in the OTA were all
prepared by the OUCS KDEM service in 1985 for Dr David C Bennett
of the School of Oriental And African Studies at London
University. The texts here have not been encoded or proofread in
any way since they were produced (other than the English text,
which was converted to an SGML like encoding by John
Price-Wilkin, and subsequently automatically converted to
conform to the OTA's dtd by myself and Alan Morrison. The other
languages were converted to TEI conformant SGML by the ECI
project 1993. --LB, Nov 1992