[Next Project] An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad

[Szymon Szott]

Hi!

As my next production I'd like to continue going through the Conrad corpus with his second novel:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/638

https://archive.org/details/outcastofislands00conr_0/

I've gone ahead and made the initial commit:

https://github.com/SzymonSzott/joseph-conrad_an-outcast-of-the-islands

Best,
Szymon

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Vince will manage this with Robin reviewing.

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[Szymon Szott]

This book has the following structure:
PART I
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
...
PART II
CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

...

Is there a way to have se split-file generate the required output files (part-1.xhtml, chapter-1-1.xhtml, etc.) automatically out of body.xhtml?

Best,
Szymon

[Vince Rice]

Unfortunatey, no.

On Jul 8, 2025, at 6:56 AM, Szymon Szott <szymon...@gmail.com> wrote:

This book has the following structure:

[Szymon Szott]

Hi!

I have a possible spelling modernization question: the liqueur curaçao appears in the book (only once) as 'curacoa'. The latter appears only twice in our corpus, M-W mentions curaçoa is a less common variant (than curaçao), and se/spelling.py converts curacao to curaçao. Do I convert curacoa to curaçoa or to curaçao?

Best,

Szymon

[Vince Rice]

Generally, if M-W lists it as a variant, I leave it, so I would say curaçoa.

[Szymon Szott]

I've finished proofreading and as the cover I'd like to use this Javanese jungle from the Smithsonian. 

Based on the book's title, I was initially thinking of looking for jungle islands, but the whole story is almost entirely constrained to one place. The above painting coveys not only the fauna but also the gloominess of the narrative.

[David]

Re: "gloominess" - we'll see what Vince thinks, but part of the gloominess of the image seems to be a function of its "under-exposure" (according to its histogram). Perhaps a modest tweak of the levels would be warranted in this case? Time will tell! :)

[Szymon Szott]

Here's a first mockup: https://imgur.com/BZeM5uA

I slightly increased the brightness and contrast in GIMP but I'm not sure it helped.

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[Szymon Szott]

On Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 1:17:05 PM UTC+2 Szymon Szott wrote:

Here's a first mockup: https://imgur.com/BZeM5uA

I slightly increased the brightness and contrast in GIMP but I'm not sure it helped.

With help from David (thanks!) I managed to improve the quality, here's v2 for approval:
https://imgur.com/a/AoRMDGo

In the meantime I'm working on content.opf and lint is throwing this bizarre error:

  <meta property="se:url.vcs.github"> value does not match expected:                                                    
  https://github.com/standardebooks/standard-ebooks_joseph-conrad_an-outcast-of-the-islands.

I bolded the bizarre part. The problem is that 

(a) I think the address is incorrect and should remain https://github.com/standardebooks/joseph-conrad_an-outcast-of-the-islands

(b) even if I change to the URL lint suggests the error remains.

Best,
Szymon

[Alex Cabal]

Remove url: from the identifier in content.opf

On 7/16/25 11:48 AM, Szymon Szott wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 1:17:05 PM UTC+2 Szymon Szott wrote:
>

> Here's a first mockup: https://imgur.com/BZeM5uA <https://imgur.com/
> BZeM5uA>

> I slightly increased the brightness and contrast in GIMP but I'm not
> sure it helped.
>
>
> With help from David (thanks!) I managed to improve the quality, here's
> v2 for approval:
> https://imgur.com/a/AoRMDGo
>
> In the meantime I'm working on content.opf and lint is throwing this
> bizarre error:
>   <meta property="se:url.vcs.github"> value does not match expected:

>   https://github.com/standardebooks/*standard-ebooks_*joseph-conrad_an-
> outcast-of-the-islands.

> I bolded the bizarre part. The problem is that
> (a) I think the address is incorrect and should remain https://
> github.com/standardebooks/joseph-conrad_an-outcast-of-the-islands
> (b) even if I change to the URL lint suggests the error remains.
>
> Best,
> Szymon
>
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[Szymon Szott]

Thanks Alex! There's one more error in colophon.xhtml which I don't understand:

  Anonymous contributors in the colophon must be exactly <b>An Anonymous Volunteer</b> or <b>An Unknown Artist</b>.        

  <b>January 1, 1900, 12:00 <abbr class="eoc">a.m.</abbr></b>

Strange, because this production doesn't have anonymous contributors.

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[Vince Rice]

It’s because of the <b> around the time, which is no longer used on 2.8. Remove those and you should be good.

[Szymon Szott]

Thanks Vince! Do you approve the cover?

https://imgur.com/a/AoRMDGo

It's the only outstanding issue before the book goes to review.

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[Alex Cabal]

I think you went overboard with the photoshop, the colors look blown
out. Just a slightly lighter brightness would be fine

On 7/16/25 1:46 PM, Szymon Szott wrote:
> Thanks Vince! Do you approve the cover?

> https://imgur.com/a/AoRMDGo <https://imgur.com/a/AoRMDGo>

>
> It's the only outstanding issue before the book goes to review.
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM Vince Rice <vr_se...@letterboxes.org
> <mailto:vr_se...@letterboxes.org>> wrote:
>
> It’s because of the <b> around the time, which is no longer used on
> 2.8. Remove those and you should be good.
>
> > On Jul 16, 2025, at 1:12 PM, Szymon Szott <szymon...@gmail.com

> <mailto:szymon...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Alex! There's one more error in colophon.xhtml which I
> don't understand:
> >   Anonymous contributors in the colophon must be exactly <b>An
> Anonymous Volunteer</b> or <b>An Unknown Artist</b>.
> >   <b>January 1, 1900, 12:00 <abbr class="eoc">a.m.</abbr></b>
> > Strange, because this production doesn't have anonymous contributors.
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[Szymon Szott]

Yes, you're right! Here's v3 for approval:
https://imgur.com/a/Zgyln16

[Alex Cabal]

Much better!

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> Yes, you're right! Here's v3 for approval:

> https://imgur.com/a/Zgyln16 <https://imgur.com/a/Zgyln16>

> <https://imgur.com/a/AoRMDGo <https://imgur.com/a/AoRMDGo>>

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[Szymon Szott]

OK, Robin, ready for review: 

https://github.com/SzymonSzott/joseph-conrad_an-outcast-of-the-islands

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[Robin Whittleton]

Give me 48 hours as per usual.

-Robni

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[Robin Whittleton]

Ah, I found time to just do the review now. A few issues noted at https://github.com/SzymonSzott/joseph-conrad_an-outcast-of-the-islands/issues/1.

-Robin

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[Robin Whittleton]

Ready for you Alex.

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[Alex Cabal]

OK, looks good. I've released it, thanks!

On 7/17/25 1:11 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> Ready for you Alex.
>
> -Robin
>
>> On 16 Jul 2025, at 22:30, Robin Whittleton <ro...@reala.net> wrote:
>>
>> Ah, I found time to just do the review now. A few issues noted at
>> https://github.com/SzymonSzott/joseph-conrad_an-outcast-of-the-

>> islands/issues/1 <https://github.com/SzymonSzott/joseph-conrad_an-
>> outcast-of-the-islands/issues/1>.

>>
>> -Robin
>>
>>> On 16 Jul 2025, at 21:58, Szymon Szott <szymon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, Robin, ready for review:
>>> https://github.com/SzymonSzott/joseph-conrad_an-outcast-of-the-

>>> islands <https://github.com/SzymonSzott/joseph-conrad_an-outcast-of-
>>> the-islands>

>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM Alex Cabal <al...@standardebooks.org
>>> <mailto:al...@standardebooks.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Much better!
>>>
>>> On 7/16/25 2:46 PM, Szymon Szott wrote:
>>> > Yes, you're right! Here's v3 for approval:
>>> >https://imgur.com/a/Zgyln16 <https://imgur.com/a/

>>> Zgyln16><https://imgur.com/a/Zgyln16 <https://imgur.com/a/Zgyln16>>

>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM Alex Cabal
>>> <al...@standardebooks.org <mailto:al...@standardebooks.org>

>>> > <mailto:al...@standardebooks.org

>>> <mailto:al...@standardebooks.org>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >     I think you went overboard with the photoshop, the colors
>>> look blown
>>> >     out. Just a slightly lighter brightness would be fine
>>> >
>>> >     On 7/16/25 1:46 PM, Szymon Szott wrote:
>>> >      > Thanks Vince! Do you approve the cover?
>>> >      >https://imgur.com/a/AoRMDGo <https://imgur.com/a/

>>> AoRMDGo><https://imgur.com/a/AoRMDGo <https://imgur.com/a/AoRMDGo>>

>>> >     <https://imgur.com/a/AoRMDGo <https://imgur.com/a/
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