[First Project] Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson

[Matthew Warrander]

Hi,

I would like to contribute towards Standard Ebooks by offering to produce Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson

It was on the list of suggestions for a first time production

Transcription: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tarka_the_Otter

Scan: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210843/page/n3/mode/1up

I have chosen wikisource's transcription as project gutenberg did not have the 4th edition which has had some small revisions made. The 4th Edition was released in 1928 and is in the public domain.

[Alex Cabal]

Great, that one would be a good start.

This book has an introduction, so you will have to add a half title page.

It's also divided into "years" which will be semantic "parts" in the
structure. Check the manual for how to divide part 1, part 2, etc.

Some chapters end in a kind of stylized verse, which we should keep.
Should be pretty easy to do with <br> and text-align: center. However
you can cut the "the end" paragraph at the end.

The book's subtitle is "His Joyful Water-Life And Death in the Country
Of the Two Rivers", which you should include in the metadata. It will
also appear in the half title.

Make sure to read the Standard Ebooks Manual of Style before starting,
as you won't know what to fix if you haven't read the standards. In
particular, please closely review the semantics, high level patterns,
and typography sections:

https://standardebooks.org/manual

https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/4-semantics

https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/7-high-level-structural-patterns

https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/8-typography

The step by step guide will take you from start to finish. Please follow
it exactly:

https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-step-by-step

This page on common issues in older books may be useful:

https://standardebooks.org/contribute/how-tos/common-issues-when-working-on-public-domain-ebooks

Please email often if you have any questions at all. Our standards are
well-established so there is probably already a standard for formatting
whatever problem you've encountered.

When you're ready, email back with a link to your Github repository so
that I can assign you a manager and reviewer.

Have fun! :)

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[Matthew Warrander]

awesome - thanks for those tips, I will work through the step-by-step guide as I refer to the manual

here is the repo with my initial commit: https://github.com/MatthewWar/henry-williamson_tarka-the-otter 

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Robin will manage with Lukas reviewing.

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[Matthew Warrander]

Alright I'm making great progress here, almost ready to begin proofreading :)

Just a couple questions from me;

The chapter titles are written in plain English as "Chapter One" - as I understand I should remove the word "Chapter" but should I change the number to be a roman numeral as I see in the example or leave it as it is?

the lint command has an issue with some punctuation such as with the following section:

" then <i>boom!</i>, a crack ran across it "

The exclamation mark is followed by a comma, should this be left as it is or changed?

Thanks,

Matt 

[Robin Whittleton]

Chapter titles would be changed to roman, yes. See the mildly cryptic https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.7/single-page#8.1.1

For the italics, that’s fine, add an ignore file for that particular error. You can do that with the command `se add-file ignore .`, then have a look at https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.7/single-page#2.3 for more info.

-Robin

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