It's an interruption, because there is no space between Miss and the
dash. So it should be a 1-em dash in our ebook.
On 5/15/22 3:02 PM, Vince wrote:
> That CSS is for bridgeheads (per the 7.2.11 title), not poetry/verse.
> The 7.5 CSS is, per the title, for poetry, /verse/, and songs. So the
> examples say “poem,” but it’s used for all three.
>
> I don’t feel /strongly/ about the 3em, because I don’t know what Austen
> had in mind, either. :) What does anyone else think? This dash following
> Miss—is it standing for an actual name (in which case it should be 3em),
> or is just a normal long sentence-ending dash, which should then be em.
> Since there’s no space between Miss and the dash, I took it as the
> latter, but a case could be made for the former.
>
> No, as far as we know, David is the only one who has one. Starting a few
> versions ago, if create-draft sees his name on the PG transcription, it
> will automatically add it to the metadata. I’m not sure why that didn’t
> happen this time.
>
>> On May 15, 2022, at 9:59 AM, Lukas Bystricky <
lukasby...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:
lukasby...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Vince! Very detailed review.
>>
>> I have a question about the verse CSS, I used the CSS from 7.2.1
>> <
https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.6.4/single-page#7.2.11.1>, I
>> <
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001023075>, which includes
>> Jane Austen's preface. I didn't attempt to bring the PG
>> transcription in line with those scans though since there's a lot
>> of minor grammatical differences.
>> >>> 2. There's a couple letters that I re-formatted to make look
>> more like a print copy I have handy. I assume that's ok?
>> >>> On Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 9:36:54 PM UTC+2 Alex Cabal wrote:
>> >>> Those look fine but I would leave `an useless` as that appears
>> to be
>> >>> quite common
>
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