Great, very good work Saggi, thanks! I've released it!
On 1/10/26 12:08 PM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> This is ready for you now Alex.
>
> -Robin
>
>> On 21 Dec 2025, at 09:42, Saggi Mizrahi <
fic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, Robint and I did another iteration. I think the next one will be
>> the last one.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM 'Alex Cabal' via Standard Ebooks
>> <
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>> hugh- <
https://github.com/ficoos/hugh->
>> > lofting_the-story-of-doctor-dolittle/issues/1 <https://
>>
github.com/ <
https://github.com/>
>> > ficoos/hugh-lofting_the-story-of-doctor-dolittle/issues/1>. I’ll
>> give it
>> > one more pass after you’ve gone through these.
>> >
>> > -Robin
>> >
>> >> On 5 Dec 2025, at 21:36, Robin Whittleton <
ro...@reala.net
>> <mailto:
al...@standardebooks.org>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Robin, this was marked as abandoned but we can resurrect it,
>> you're
>> >>> up for review
>> >>>
>> >>> On 12/5/25 10:31 AM, Saggi Mizrahi wrote:
>> >>>> Hi, I think I'm done on my end.
>> >>>> What's next?
>> >>>> On Thu, 7 Aug 2025, 0:24 Saggi Mizrahi, <
fic...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:
fic...@gmail.com>
>> >>>> <mailto:
standar...@googlegroups.com
>> <
http://github.com/ficoos/hugh-lofting_the-story-of-doctor-dolittle/>
>> >>>> commit/c229b1194e59d9b0b92a99b5e30630c370e26ee9>. It
>> looks like
>> >>>> you reverted typogrify wholesale, which is definitely not
>> >>>> something we should be doing. What was your thought process
>> >>>> behind making this change?
>> >>>> We don't touch the way em dashes are used. Even though
>> we do
>> >>>> modernize spelling and hyphenation, we keep a light
>> editorial
>> >>>> touch and don't change things like sentence structure.
>> >>>> On Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 2:50:14 PM
>>
UTC-4fic...@gmail.com <mailto:
fic...@gmail.com>
>> >>>> <mailto:
fic...@gmail.com <mailto:
fic...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >>>> Hi, I'm still on my first read through. I didn't
>> have a lot
>> >>>> of time to work on this.
>> >>>> I do think I did all the stuff I could've done
>> automatically.
>> >>>> I also updated the Colophon (apart from the cover
>> metadata
>> >>>> obviously).
>> >>>> As for the cover, I think that either this <https://
>> >>>>
standardebooks.org/artworks/levi-wells-prentice/a- <http://
>> <
http://standardebooks.org/artworks/frans-snyders/a-concert-of->
>> >>>> birds> . They are from the SE database and the parrot
>> >>>> represents Polynesia who teaches Dr. Doolittle the
>> animal
>> >>>> language.
>> >>>> I also have a style question. The novel uses dashes
>> *a lot*.
>> >>>> I couldn't really find out if that is in line with the
>> >>>> expected style or should that be changed.
>> >>>> For example:
>> >>>> Once upon a time, many years ago—when our
>> grandfathers
>> >>>> were little children—there was a doctor
>> >>>> Another example:
>> >>>> But the Cat's-meatman wasn't very rich and he
>> only got
>> >>>> sick once a year—at Christmas-time, when he
>> used to give
>> >>>> the Doctor sixpence for a bottle of medicine
>> >>>> Should these be "modernized" to use parentheses
>> or commas?
>> >>>> Thanks
>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM 'Weijia Cheng' via
>> Standard
>> >>>> Ebooks <
standar...@googlegroups.com
>> <mailto:
standar...@googlegroups.com>> wrote:
>> >>>> I took a quick look. Things look OK so far, so
>> please
>> >>>> keep going!
>> >>>> On Thursday, July 24, 2025 at 3:11:01 PM UTC-4 Alex
>> >>>> Cabal wrote:
>> >>>> OK, Weijia will manage this with Robin
>> reviewing.
>> >>>> Weijia, what do you think of the progress?
>> >>>> On 7/24/25 2:32 AM, Saggi Mizrahi wrote:
>> >>>>> I think this didn't come through because I used
>> >>>> the wrong email.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I have what I think is a decent first draft.
>> >>>>> I'm obviously missing a cover and metadata
>> >>>> information but I would like
>> >>>>> to see if I'm doing it at least somewhat correctly.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
https://github.com/ficoos/hugh-lofting_the-story- <https://
>>
github.com/ficoos/hugh-lofting_the-story->
>> >>>> of-doctor-dolittle <
https://github.com/
>> ficoos/hugh- <
https://github.com/ficoos/hugh->
>> >>>> lofting_the-story-of-doctor-dolittle>
>> >>>>> <
https://github.com/ficoos/hugh-lofting_the- <https://
>>
github.com/ficoos/hugh-lofting_the->
>> >>>> story-of-doctor-dolittle <https://
>>
github.com/ficoos/ <
https://github.com/ficoos/>
>> >>>> hugh-lofting_the-story-of-doctor-dolittle>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2025, 8:29 Saggi Mizrahi,
>> >>>> <
sa...@mizrahi.cc <mailto:
sa...@mizrahi.cc>
>> >>>>> <mailto:
sa...@mizrahi.cc <mailto:
sa...@mizrahi.cc>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Hi, sending again in case it got lost in the
>> >>>> shuffle.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I just want to make sure what I have now is OK
>> >>>> before I start going
>> >>>>> through it deeper proof reading and adding more
>> >>>> semantic information
>> >>>>> where needed. It'll be easier to transform or
>> >>>> rollback the
>> >>>>> structural stuff now rather than later.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, 21:21 Saggi Mizrahi,
>> >>>> <
sa...@mizrahi.cc <mailto:
sa...@mizrahi.cc>
>> >>>>> <mailto:
sa...@mizrahi.cc <mailto:
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>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Hi, I have what I think is a decent first draft.
>> >>>>> I'm obviously missing a cover and metadata
>> >>>> information but I
>> >>>>> would like to see if I'm doing it at least
>> >>>> somewhat correctly.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
https://github.com/ficoos/hugh-lofting_the-story- <https://
>>
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>> >>>>> On 7/17/25 2:16 AM, Saggi Mizrahi wrote:
>> >>>>>> I would like to try and work on this.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Transcription in Project Gutenberg: https://
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