It is to maintain a semi-consistent look across all of our ebook covers.
Yes, it can be difficult to find something for Indian subjects. A key
word when searching for artwork is "orientalism", a catchall term used
by artists before around 1900 to describe any Asian-inspired art.
Watercolors are sometimes acceptable if they don't look too much like
obvious watercolors, but your selection was clearly a watercolor
illustration.
On 5/15/26 12:04 AM, Chelsea McGill wrote:
> I'm just curious - is there an explanation somewhere about the
> preference for oil paintings over watercolor? Oil paintings are
> relatively rare in colonial art in India because watercolor was
> preferred. So it will be a bit difficult to find public domain oil
> paintings to use from India.
>
> I just want to note that I suggested this watercolor painting because it
> depicts the historically accurate exact kind of room that much of the
> novel takes place in. I am quite certain that there is no equivalent
> painting in oil, outside of maybe private collections.
>
> On Fri, 15 May, 2026, 1:52 am 'Alex Cabal' via Standard Ebooks,
> <
standar...@googlegroups.com
> <mailto:
standar...@googlegroups.com>> wrote:
>
> I agree it's too watercolor-y
>
> On 5/14/26 3:17 PM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> > On the cover image, that’s fine from a licensing point of view, and
> > looks potentially appropriate, but it’s a watercolour. We do
> > occasionally use watercolours (my latest project was one in fact)
> but
> > typically we want oil paintings. Alex: have you got an opinion on
> this one?
> >
> > On Bande Mataram, don’t italicise it. The markup would be:
> >
> > “<span epub:type="se:name.music.song" xml:lang="bn-Lath">Bande
> Mataram</
> > span>”
> >
> > including the curly quotes. Note bn-Latn, as it’s the latin
> orthography
> > for the Bengali word.
> >
> > On the texts, I’d guess we wouldn’t italicise them, as per https://
> >
standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.7/single-page#8.2.11.2 <http://
>
standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.7/single-page#8.2.11.2> <https://
> >
standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.7/single-page#8.2.11.2 <http://
>
standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.7/single-page#8.2.11.2>>. As the Bengali
> > words are in MW we can omit the italics, as they’re considered
> now part
> > of English (unless MW specifically says a language).
> >
> > (Side note, but I just noticed the transcription error omaments
> in the
> > endnotes, which presumably should be ornaments.)
> >
> > -Robin
> >
> >> On 14 May 2026, at 07:48, Chelsea McGill <
bkwr...@gmail.com
> collection/ <
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/>
> <
https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.7/single->
> >> page#7.10.5.3 <
https://standardebooks.org/
> manual/1.8.7/ <
https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.7/>
> >> single-page#7.10.5.3>.
> >>
> >> -Robin
> >>
> >>> On 13 May 2026, at 13:33, Chelsea McGill
> <mailto:
standar...@googlegroups.com>> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > If you're getting an error in the browser
> then your
> >>> XHTML is malformed. There is a missing closing tag,
> >>> mismatched nesting, or some other XHTML syntax
> level
> >>> error. The browser should give you a hint in its
> >>> error message.
> >>> >
> >>> > On 5/12/26 10:43 AM, Chelsea McGill wrote:
> >>> >> Hi Robin, I have now done up to ch 5. But when I
> >>> open the file in browser I'm getting an error
> message
> >>> for Ch 5. Could you please check and let me
> know what
> >>> to change? Thanks
> >>> >> On Tue, 12 May, 2026, 8:16 pm Robin Whittleton,
> >>> <
ro...@reala.net
> <mailto:
ro...@reala.net><mailto:
ro...@reala.net
> <mailto:
ro...@reala.net>>> wrote:
> >>> >> Leaving aside that you need one more </
> section> at
> >>> the end in both
> >>> >> chapters, that looks good!
> >>> >> (Thanks Weijia, I missed your original
> comment but
> >>> this approach
> >>> >> makes more sense.)
> >>> >> -Robin
> >>> >>> On 12 May 2026, at 16:25, Chelsea McGill
> >>> <
bkwr...@gmail.com <mailto:
bkwr...@gmail.com>
> >>> >>> <mailto:
bkwr...@gmail.com
> <mailto:
ro...@reala.net>> wrote:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Reading through the book, this isn’t the
> >>> >>> most obvious structure for a first
> >>> >>> production. But let’s see what we can do.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> The book is structured into twelve
> >>> >>> chapters, each with multiple subchapters.
> >>> >>> The subchapters aren’t numbered
> >>> >>> sequentially themselves, but some have a
> >>> >>> character attached, and the number of the
> >>> >>> subchapter specifically for that
> >>> >>> character. If they don’t have a character
> >>> >>> name then it’s assumed that it’s a follow-
> >>> >>> on from the previous character.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> So, I’d say that we want to split this
> >>> >>> into 12 chapters. You‘ve done this ✅
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> The main chapter headings should be just
> >>> >>> roman numerals. This is the default for
> >>> >>> all SE productions, see the manual of
> >>> >>> style:
https://standardebooks.org/ <https://
>
standardebooks.org/> <https://
> >>>
standardebooks.org/ <
http://standardebooks.org/>>
> >>> >>> manual/1.8.7/single-page#8.1.1 <https://
> >>> >>>
standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.7/single-
> <
http://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.7/single-> <http://
> <mailto:
chelsea....@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> Thank you for your help!
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> I have decided to keep "Chapter One"
> >>> >>>> format as in the original, since Roman
> >>> >>>> numerals are already used in the text and
> >>> >>>> it would be confusing for the reader.
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> On Tue, 12 May, 2026, 12:27 am 'Alex
> >>> >>>> Cabal' via Standard Ebooks,
> >>> >>>> <
standar...@googlegroups.com
> <mailto:
standar...@googlegroups.com>> wrote:
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> OK, Robin will manage this with Vince
> >>> >>>> reviewing.
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> On 5/10/26 2:38 AM, Chelsea McGill wrote:
> >>> >>>> > Hi,
> >>> >>>> >
> >>> >>>> > I think this is the correct link -
> >>> >>>> please correct me if I'm wrong!
> >>> >>>> >
> >>> >>>> >
https://github.com/chelseamcgill4/
> <
https://github.com/chelseamcgill4/> <https://
> >>>
github.com/chelseamcgill4/ <
http://github.com/chelseamcgill4/>>
> >>> >>>> rabindranath-tagore_the-home-and-the-
> >>> >>>> <
https://github.com/chelseamcgill4/
> <
https://github.com/chelseamcgill4/> <https://
> >>>
github.com/chelseamcgill4/ <
http://github.com/chelseamcgill4/>>
> >>>
www.gutenberg.org/ <
http://www.gutenberg.org/>>
> >>>
www.gutenberg.org/ <
http://www.gutenberg.org/>>>
>
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7166> <http://
> <
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7166> <https://
> >>>
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http://www.gutenberg.org/
> details/> <
http://archive.org/details/ <
http://archive.org/details/>
> details/> <
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> >>>
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> >>> >>>> <
https://archive.org/ <https://
>
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https://archive.org/>>>
> >>> >>>> > details/
> >>> >>>> homeandworld01unkngoog/page/V/mode/2up>
> >>> >>>> >
> >>> >>>> > Best,
> >>> >>>> > Chelsea
> >>> >>>> >
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