OK, looks good Igor, I've released it! Great work, thanks!
On 2/3/26 12:43 AM, Emma Sweeney wrote:
> Alex, this is ready for you.
>
> Emma
> On Monday, February 2, 2026 at 12:34:47 AM UTC-5 Emma Sweeney wrote:
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> Great work! I filed some minor issues in the repository.
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> Emma
> On Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 10:43:02 PM UTC-5
idi...@gmail.com wrote:
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> OK, link and epubcheck both completed with no errors so I think
> this is ready for review. I did have to decrease the size of
> cover.jpg after lint yelled at me, so I hope it looks OK now.
>
> Here's the repo link for convenience:
>
https://github.com/idikiy/metta-victor_the-dead-letter <https://
>
github.com/idikiy/metta-victor_the-dead-letter>
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> On Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 9:36:42 PM UTC-5
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idi...@gmail.com wrote:
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> Thanks, the semicolon idea makes a lot of sense.
>
> For author full name in content.opf, should I include
> Metta Vicotria Fuller Victor (
https://en.wikipedia.org/
> wiki/Metta_Victor <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Metta_Victor>)? And is there anywhere that the
> pseudonym under which this book was published (Seeley
> Regester) should be included?
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> On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 7:52 AM 'Weijia Cheng' via
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> 1. This seems like a less common spelling, judging
> by the Oxford English Dictionary <https://
>
www.oed.com/dictionary/pommel_n1?
> tab=meaning_and_use#29152086>. I think it is a
> sound-alike so you can modernize it in an editorial
> commit.
> 2. That looks like a transcription error to me. It
> looks like they interpreted a semicolon as an em
> dash followed by a comma.
>
> On Tuesday, January 27, 2026 at 9:05:40 PM UTC-5
>
idi...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Thanks, Weijia and Vince.
>
> Last few questions from the proofread, then I'm
> probably done until the lint questions.
>
> 1. There's a use of "pummel" for "pommel," as in
> "the pummel of Dr. Seltzer's saddle." I don't
> see that meaning in Merriam-Webster, should I
> correct?
> 2. In the excerpt below, the Gutenberg text put
> an em dash before the comma after "family."
> Does that make sense?
> image.png
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 11:58 AM Vince
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> Re the punctuation inside a paren, I have
> always modernized that to move it outside
> the paren. I asked Alex about it the first
> time I encountered it, and he said it was OK
> to change. Lots of it still in the corpus
> though, so I may be in the minority.
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