This came up in a recent ebook, yes you should add more top margin.
Restyle the headers so that the top margin is 3em and bottom margin is
1.5em.
On 2/17/26 9:42 PM, Emma Sweeney wrote:
> Then, leave the subchapters alone. The standard header styling is enough.
>
>
> Emma
> On Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 9:27:18 PM UTC-5
ray....@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Using page breaks for the subchapters would be a dramatic break from
> the original, and I think not what the author would have intended.
> Her numbers feel more like HR elements in nature. And note that the
> current publication by NYRB treats them that way—page break for
> chapters, subchapter numbers in page.
>
> Sounds good re: the ellipses. The PG transcript is just all over the
> place with those. I'll make sure they're consistent.
>
> On Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 4:18:40 PM UTC-8 Emma Sweeney wrote:
>
> - You can add page breaks to different <section> levels (SEMoS
> 7.1.3.1 <
https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.6/single-
> page#7.1.3.1>).
>
> - These should still use the ellipsis glyph (SEMoS 8.7.6
> <
https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.6/single-page#8.7.6>).
> You should follow the SE manual's typography rules rather than
> the page scans. You can have a period followed by an ellipsis
> glyph for a four-dot ellipsis.
>
>
> Emma
> On Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 7:00:40 PM UTC-5
>
ray....@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Sinclair used dots in a unique way to indicate pauses in a
> stream of thought, similar to Dorothy Richardson's habits in
> Pilgrimage. The PG transcription is inconsistent in how it
> handles these, and I think makes a lot of inappropriate use
> of the ellipses character, "…". Compare the even spacing in
> the circled sections of the scan below with the shot from my
> reader.
>
> I'm thinking what I should do instead is reproduce those
> effects with a combination of non-breaking spaces and
> periods, something like:
>
> > …cause of all things”-nbsp-period-nbsp-period-nbsp-
> period-space-“Thought and Extension…
>
> Screenshot 2026-02-17 at 3.47.23 PM.png
> On Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 1:40:42 PM UTC-8 Ray Ryan
> wrote:
>
> Wondering if I should beef up the margin or padding
> above subchapter breaks. Seems odd that the number/name
> of the subchapter is so much closer to the preceding one.
>
> 1000003906.jpg
>
> On Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 1:17:19 PM UTC-8 Ray
> Ryan wrote:
>
> Ah. Yes, that was it, I had forced left
> justification. Undid that (confusingly by selecting
> Justification: Off) and the specified alignment is
> working.
>
> On Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 11:42:15 AM UTC-8
> Alex Cabal wrote:
>
>
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> > > On Tuesday, February 10,
> > > 2026 at 1:07:58 PM UTC-8
> > > Emma Sweeney wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes.
> > >
> > > Emma
> > > On Tuesday, February 10,
> > > 2026 at 3:44:00 PM UTC-5
> > >
ray....@gmail.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Should I be removing
> > > all these numeric id
> > > attributes?
> > >
> > > On Monday, February
> > > 9, 2026 at
> > > 7:15:40 PM UTC-8
> > > Emma Sweeney wrote:
> > >
> > > SEMoS 8.3.3
> > > <https://
> > >
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> > standardebooks/thomas-carlyle_sartor-
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> > standardebooks/thomas-carlyle_sartor-
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> chapter files.
> > >
> > > Emma
> > > On
> > > Monday, February 9, 2026 at 3:39:35 PM UTC-5
> >
ray....@gmail.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Emma, thanks for your ongoing guidance.
> > >
> > > Could you point me at an example of a book
> with a
> > similar book-*.xml + chapter-*.xml structure?
> Seems
> > like the simplest way to get the book files
> right.
> > >
> > > On Sunday, February 8, 2026 at 5:35:57 PM
> UTC-8
> > Alex Cabal wrote:
> > >
> > > Emma will manage with Lukas reviewing
> > >
> > > On 2/8/26 4:49 PM, Ray Ryan wrote:
> > > > Heres the repo:
https://github.com/rjrjr/
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