LSPW and I spent some time setting up the XML document for her 1621 Sonnet de Courval task; we also had a discussion with CC about transcription policies, which gave rise to these decisions:

• Typographical ligatures will be ignored, because only some are available in Unicode, and they're actually stylistic rather than substantive.
• Ampersands will be kept (i.e. not expanded to "et") because they're easy and not a problem for the reader.
• Long s will be transcribed as long s, both in ligatures and where standalone.