On 16 Aug 2022, at 00:23, Nagarjun <cdnag...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am mostly done with proofreading and had a few questions.
1. create-draft pulled the source text from Project Gutenberg, and it has www.freeliterature.org for the transcriber homepage, but the link doesn't point to a homepage anymore. Should I remove the link from content.opf?
2. I have removed ligatures from the main text, but there are some Latin phrases with ligatures in them. Should I retain them?
3. There are newspaper headlines with the contents "Wholesale Lynching. Shocking Story.", with the second sentence in a smaller font than the first. I have put the sentences between p tags, all contained in a blockquote contained in a header (this was suggested in a previous thread). Is it OK if the font sizes are the same?
For the cover image, there's a painting by Goya (titled "Witches' Sabbath") that a previous volunteer had suggested. For reference, the book scan is at
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_CAIEAAAAYAAJ/page/n99/mode/1up?view=theater
and the cropped image is reproduced below (this is slightly larger than the one the volunteer had proposed, but it looks better imo) at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_Witches%27_Sabbath_(The_Great_He-Goat)_crop.jpg
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I found another work by Goya, also titled "Witches' Sabbath" (reproduced below) at https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/witches-sabbath . I find this even more apt. Basically, the Witches' Sabbath comes up in the story "Novel of the white powder", where a bookish young man inadvertently gets hooked to a white powder, which turns out to be something used in the Witches' Sabbath. To me, the painting portrays this quite well. The wikiart link claims that it is in the public domain, but I couldn't find scans. It doesn't help that Goya seems to have at least three paintings which are all more or less named "Witches' Sabbath".
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On 21 Aug 2022, at 13:44, Nagarjun <cdnag...@gmail.com> wrote:
Alex, thanks for the link. I generated the covers for both versions and I'll go with the one I found, it's a bit more lurid, just like the book!
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On 21 Aug 2022, at 14:16, Nagarjun <cdnag...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, Robin. I've fixed it and the book should be ready to review now.
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From: Vince <vr_se...@letterboxes.org>
Subject: Re: [standardebooks] [First project] The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen
Date: August 21, 2022 at 11:16:06 AM CDT
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