[Next Project] Beric the Briton by G. A. Henty

[Jim Turnbull]

For my next project I'm going to look at Beric the Briton by G. A. Henty.

Sources:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7037
https://archive.org/details/bwb_O8-BXK-178/

Not sure what to do for cover art yet, but will tackle that issue later, unless anyone has any suggestions.

Repo created:

https://github.com/misterjaytee/g-a-henty_beric-the-briton

One question...

I noticed that the Gutenberg text has all the chapters starting with <h1> tags, whereas my first book (and the step-by-step production notes) have <h2> tags.

Does the Standard Ebooks toolset require each chapter starts with <h2> tags in order to do the split correctly (i.e. would you prefer that I change all the h1 to h2)?

[Jim Turnbull]

Just answered my own question, split-file doesn't look at the h1/h2 tags (it looks for the se:split comment). 

So I guess the question is whether I'm okay to leave the source h1 tags as-is, or would SE prefer that these are changed to h2 tags?

[Robin Whittleton]

Change them to h2s to match the rest of the corpus.

-Robin

On 19 Oct 2025, at 13:11, Jim Turnbull <misterjay...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Alex Cabal]

OK, Robin will manage with Weijia reviewing.

Note the subtitle, you'll have to include it in the metadata and half
title page.

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[Jim Turnbull]

I've pushed up commits up to the point where I'll now be proofreading.

I was aware of the subtitle element and I'll add the half page and make sure subtitle is in the metadata when I come back to this after proofreading.

[Alex Cabal]

You needed a half title anyway because there's a preface

On 10/19/25 11:40 AM, Jim Turnbull wrote:
> I've pushed up commits up to the point where I'll now be proofreading.
>
> I was aware of the subtitle element and I'll add the half page and make
> sure subtitle is in the metadata when I come back to this after
> proofreading.
>
> On Sunday, 19 October 2025 at 16:40:13 UTC+1 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> OK, Robin will manage with Weijia reviewing.
>
> Note the subtitle, you'll have to include it in the metadata and half
> title page.
>
> On 10/19/25 5:50 AM, Jim Turnbull wrote:
> > For my next project I'm going to look at Beric the Briton by G.
> A. Henty.
> >
> > Sources:

> > https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7037 <https://www.gutenberg.org/
> ebooks/7037>
> > https://archive.org/details/bwb_O8-BXK-178/ <https://archive.org/
> details/bwb_O8-BXK-178/>

> >
> >
> > Not sure what to do for cover art yet, but will tackle that issue
> later,
> > unless anyone has any suggestions.
> >
> > Repo created:
> > https://github.com/misterjaytee/g-a-henty_beric-the-briton
> <https://github.com/misterjaytee/g-a-henty_beric-the-briton>
> >
> > One question...
> > I noticed that the Gutenberg text has all the chapters starting with
> > <h1> tags, whereas my first book (and the step-by-step production
> notes)
> > have <h2> tags.
> >
> > Does the Standard Ebooks toolset require each chapter starts with
> <h2>
> > tags in order to do the split correctly (i.e. would you prefer
> that I
> > change all the h1 to h2)?
> >
> >
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[Weijia Cheng]

Ok, review noted.

[Jim Turnbull]

Okay, thanks. I've added half title page and preface.