This is going to be a lot of work because the frame narrative doesn't
use single quotes for nested quotes, so you're going to have to update
all of those. It also smashes dialog from different speakres into giant
paragraphs, and we should break those up for readability and properly
nest the quotation marks. I also see a few sections that are clearly
still the frame narrator but without opening quote marks, which are
probably typos. So very careful reading and a careful editing are going
to be required to correct and update all that.
As far as semantics go, you can put the story in a <blockquote> and use
the header pattern in 7.2.10.8. Then, using CSS remove the margins from
the blockquote so it appears as regular text.
> <
https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.7.3/single-page#7.2.10.8>) but no
> h3 tag for each of the Tale headings. This would be easiest and would
> most closely reproduce the printed book.
>
> or
>
> 2) Add subsections to almost every chapter in the book along the lines
> of "The Tale of the Spaniard (cont'd)". This seems like overkill for
> this text--I can see it making sense if it happened once and involved
> two chapters, but here it'd involve most of the 39 chapters.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> On Sunday 31 December 2023 at 00:02:32 UTC Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> OK sure. You can remove the volume divisions as they appear to be there
> just for physical practicality. I think this transcription uses *** to
> mark the start of blockquotes and section breaks - compare with the
> page
> scans to see what the stars actually mean in the transcription.
>
> Please send a link to your repo once you start.
>
> On 12/28/23 5:19 AM, Christopher Hapka wrote:
> > For my next project, I had in mind Maturin's novel Melmoth the
> Wanderer,
> > which is on the "Intermediate" section of the Wanted list.
> >
> > Text is at Project Gutenberg, in four volumes:
> >
> >
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53685
> <
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53685>
> >
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53686
> <
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53686>
> >
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53687
> <
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53687>
> >
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53688
> <
https://archive.org/details/melmothwanderern01matuuoft>
> >
https://archive.org/details/melmothwanderern02matuuoft
> <
https://archive.org/details/melmothwanderern02matuuoft>
> >
https://archive.org/details/melmothwanderern03matuuoft
> <
https://archive.org/details/melmothwanderern03matuuoft>
> >
> > The 1890s edition says it's an exact reproduction except for fixing
> > obvious errors--and points out in the politest possible way that
> there
> > were some. "Maturin's defective knowledge of Spanish ... will be
> obvious
> > to all those who have even a superficial knowledge of the language."
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