On Sep 17, 2021, at 2:28 AM, Lan Wang <l...@sinoceltic.com> wrote:
Hi Alex
OK. Unfortunately Edwin Weeks didn't visit China. However, I've managed to find George Chinnery, who did. I propose using his painting "Coolies Round the Food Vendor's Stall", from around 1825. Maugham spends quite a bit of time talking about the Chinese coolies in his stories, so the subject is quite appropriate.The Yale Center for British Art holds it and says its public domain (https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:608).Hope that works better.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/14265
I would just use a detail of it, seeing as it's in landscape, probably the section to the left of the painting, featuring the Chinese junk.
Thanks
Cheers, Lan
On 16 Oct 2021, at 1:58 am, Alex Cabal <al...@standardebooks.org> wrote:
Can you send me a link to your repo?
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On 17 Oct 2021, at 05:42, Lan Wang <l...@sinoceltic.com> wrote:
Hi RobinThanks for this.That version of the painting is much better. I added a few more (cloned) pixels to the bottom to make the title box fit, which I think works. Hope that's OK.I've fixed most of the issues you raised. Just two spelling queries:
- "Zakouski" is in MW as "zakuski" (plural of zakuska) so should I change the spelling or leave it as is?
- "Entree" is listed as an alternative spelling to "entrée", so does it need to be changed?
ThanksCheers, Lan
On Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 6:07:08 AM UTC+11 Vince wrote:
Here’s a GP uprez of the full painting. With most of the action in the lower part of the picture, the title box is probably going to be an issue.
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On Oct 16, 2021, at 1:45 PM, Robin Whittleton <ro...@reala.net> wrote:First, can you run typogrify again? A couple of changes come up.
- chapter 6:
- The subchapter headings need the same hgroup semantics as the main chapter (although with h3 and h4 instead). Potentially the sections need subchapter semantics as well as se:short-story? Once you’ve done that, run build-toc again to fix it.
- zakouski isn’t in MW so needs italicising
- chapter 49: modernize-spelling flags entree -> entrée
- colophon:
- your name needs a wrapping <b epub:type=“z3998:personal-name>
- The painting name is missing a closing parenthesis
- Can we change “completed in c. 1840” to “completed around 1840”
- Anonymous needs a <b> but doesn’t need z3998:personal-name semantics
- content.opf:
- longdesc: wrap W. in an <abbr>
Apart from that, the cover is, well, not particularly inspiring :/ The source is pretty low-res at just 700px high, so we’re already upsampling 3 times for the final version. I can’t find anything obviously better, but maybe a gigapixel resize and a recrop might help?-RobinOn 15 Oct 2021, at 17:07, Lan Wang <l...@sinoceltic.com> wrote:
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