[Next Project] The Power of Darkness by Leo Tolstoy (trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude)

[Weijia Cheng]

PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26661

HT: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011726247

I'll shake things up a bit by doing a play for my next production. This is only ~30,000 words or so but I assume that's fine since this is a play.

[Alex Cabal]

OK!

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[Weijia Cheng]

The dramatis personae in this play has the names of the characters in small caps followed by the description of the characters in italics: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wau.39352061545638&view=1up&seq=18&skin=2021

Should the character names in the dramatis personae be wrapped in <b epub:type="z3998:persona">? Or should these be changed to be completely in italics?

[Alex Cabal]

No, you can make it all italics without a distinction between name and
description

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[Weijia Cheng]

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wau.39352061545638&view=1up&seq=44&skin=2021

There is a full-line stage direction with a parenthesis inside on this page: "The neighbour (a woman) passes the hut ..."

This works in the original printing since it's not surrounded by parentheses there, but it looks wrong to have parentheses inside parentheses with our stage direction styling. Should the parentheses around "a woman" be changed to square brackets?

[Alex Cabal]

Interesting question. Normally you're right, nested parens become square
brackets. However we're adding parens as a matter of CSS style and not
text content. Therefore making the nested ones square brackets wouldn't
make sense from a purely textual perspective.

For now, just leave them as parens. I don't think there's a great
solution here given our stage direction styling and how it's applied.

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[Weijia Cheng]

Ok, I'll leave it as is.

For the cover I was thinking of this portrait. The dark colors work with the tragic tone of the play and I think the young woman in the portrait could represent any one of the young female characters (Anisya, Akoulina, and Marina).

[Weijia Cheng]

Anisya, in particular, is one of the main characters and is described in the dramatis personae as "fond of dress," which I think comes across in this painting.

[Alex Cabal]

OK, thanks!

On 1/16/22 1:00 PM, Weijia Cheng wrote:
> Ok, I'll leave it as is.
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> For the cover I was thinking of this portrait

> <https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/object/383541>. The dark colors

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[Weijia Cheng]

Cool, here's the crop:

[Weijia Cheng]

Ok, I've wrapped up proofreading and this is ready for a review: https://github.com/weijia-cheng/leo-tolstoy_the-power-of-darkness_louise-maude_aylmer-maude

[Emma Sweeney]

Alex, I can review this one if you want.

Emma

[Alex Cabal]

Go ahead, thanks!

On 1/16/22 5:58 PM, Emma Sweeney wrote:
> Alex, I can review this one if you want.
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> On Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 5:30:49 PM UTC-5 weijia...@gmail.com wrote:
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> Ok, I've wrapped up proofreading and this is ready for a review:
> https://github.com/weijia-cheng/leo-tolstoy_the-power-of-darkness_louise-maude_aylmer-maude
> <https://github.com/weijia-cheng/leo-tolstoy_the-power-of-darkness_louise-maude_aylmer-maude>
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> On Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 10:39:53 AM UTC-8 Weijia Cheng wrote:
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> Cool, here's the crop:
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[Emma Sweeney]

Great work! I logged some minor issues in your repository.

Emma

[Weijia Cheng]

Thanks for the very thorough review Emma! I've incorporated all of the feedback you filed.

[Emma Sweeney]

I logged a few CSS tweaks.

Emma

[Weijia Cheng]

I've updated the repo with the tweaks.

[Emma Sweeney]

I'm not seeing anymore issues. Alex, this one is ready for you.

Emma

[Weijia Cheng]

FYI Alex, I upgraded to the latest tools version and fixed the lint issues.

[Alex Cabal]

Excellent, I've gone ahead and released it. Thanks for staying on top of
the toolset changes Weijia!

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