[First Project] The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish

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Chris Spurgeon

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Hello!

Having read a number of Standard Ebooks, I thought it's time I helped out. I saw The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish listed among the wanted books suitable for beginners, so I thought I'd give that a shot. If nothing else, by the time I'm done I'll finally know how to spell "Perennial".

Got the toolchain installed, ready to dive in!



Thanks!

Chris Spurgeon

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Great, that one would be a good start.

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> Having read a number of Standard Ebooks, I thought it's time I helped
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> wanted books suitable for beginners, so I thought I'd give that a shot.
> If nothing else, by the time I'm done I'll finally know how to spell
> "Perennial".
>
> Got the toolchain installed, ready to dive in!
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OK, repo set up at https://github.com/chrisspurgeon/anne-parrish_the-perennial-bachelor .

Off to dive in!

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Alex Cabal

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OK, Vince will manage with Robin reviewing.

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> <https://github.com/chrisspurgeon/anne-parrish_the-perennial-bachelor> .

Chris Spurgeon

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OK, plugging along on proofreading and making some editorial tweaks, and could use some advice on this...


Screenshot 2026-04-05 at 6.22.42 PM.png

Should I keep that italicized, and if so, how exactly? Or should it just be regular text? Looking at the Manual of Style, it seems section 8.2.8.3 applies, and that it should not be italicized.

Thanks!
Chris

Vince Rice

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Since it’s literally referring to the letter l, then it’s a grapheme and should be tagged accordingly. 

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OK, plugging along on proofreading and making some editorial tweaks, and could use some advice on this...

Alex Cabal

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To clarify, yes, italics, but only on the L and not the following S. Not
sure why the S is italicized in print.
>> 8.2.8.3 applies, and that it should /not/ be italicized.
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Got it. Thanks!

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Chris Spurgeon

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Heading toward the finish line here, and wanted to propose a cover. I was thinking "Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret" by James McNeill Whistler,,,


... or ""Samuel P. Avery" by Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta


They're both PD, and both in the collection of the Met.

Chris




Vince

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Apr 9, 2026, 8:49:35 PMApr 9
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We look for CC0, not PD, but the Met is one of our approved galleries whose works are CC0 (click through to the Open Access page).

I don’t know the book, so I don’t know how these fit into the book and/or character. They are a decade apart in age, if that matters. Whichever one you pick, please do a mockup so we can see what it look like on the cover.

Chris Spurgeon

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I'm thinking the portrait of Samuel P. Avery works the best. Here's the mockup...


Parrish cover.jpg

The book follows the character literally from birth all the way through his 70s, but a key part of the story is well captured in this image... a man just a little bit too old to be considered young, starting to go a little bald, still trying to be dapper, but with the first telltale signs of reduced financial means and of falling a bit behind the fashion of the modern age.

Here's the URL again...

What do you think?

Chris

Vince

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Looks good, I’ve uploaded it to the db and assigned it.

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I'm thinking the portrait of Samuel P. Avery works the best. Here's the mockup...


Chris Spurgeon (gmail)

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Thanks!

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I'm in the home stretch, attempting to add a few items to my se-lint-ignore.xml file, and I'm experiencing the exact same problem that someone else here had a few months back. No matter what I do in the se-lint-ignore.xml file, I get this error when I run se lint...

se-lint-ignore.xml is invalid: failed to compile: Wrong escape sequence, misuse of character '\'

The previous person who experienced this problem determined that it was a bug in the toolset, and evidently he had to dive into the python code and hack around the bug that was causing the error. I'm willing to give that a shot, if I knew where the problem lies.

Any help appreciated! I'm dead in the water right now.

Chris

PS> I'm running Mac OSX Tahoe 26.3.1, python 3.14.3, and se version 3.0.3

Vince

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I have no idea. Your GitHub repository has no ignore file, you didn’t provide a link to the previous problem, and you’re on a python version that I’m not sure we support yet. (I don’t know that we don’t, either—it’s unclear; the setup.py file says >= 3.10.12, but the install instructions on the web site say 3.12. I’m on 3.13, so I know that works, but 3.14 is relatively new and I don’t know about it.)

At the least you’ll need to update your GitHub repository to be able to duplicate your problem, and provide a link to the previous discussion you’re referring to.

Chris Spurgeon

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OK, I pushed a barebones se-lint-ignore.xml file up to my github repo. But, to be clear, I tried it with and without entries, and also tried copying an ignore file from someone else's repo, all with the same error.

The previous example of the problem is talked about in the "[Next project] Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens" conversation. Take a look at the last few posts there.

Chris

Vince

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Lint will generate an error with an empty ignore file, so it needs to be populated with whatever you were trying to populate it with.

There is a "Copy Link" menu item on the three vertical dot menu on the Google Group site; please include an actual link to the conversation in the future. I’ve looked it up this time.

The error David was getting there is not the error you say you’re getting, so it would not appear at first glance they are related.

Chris Spurgeon

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OK, updated the ignore file with an entry. The file now looks like this...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<se-lint-ignore>
<file path="chapter-27.xhtml">
<ignore code="y-013">
<line>132</line>
<reason>Single quote is part of a song title being mentioned by the speaker.</reason>
</ignore>
</file>
</se-lint-ignore>

I still get this error...

 Error  se-lint-ignore.xml is invalid: failed to compile: Wrong escape sequence, misuse of character '\'





Chris Spurgeon

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Ah geez, wait a minute! I think maybe it's all my fault. After I created the se-lint-ignore.xml, I've been running "se lint ." from that directory. If I cd down to src, I don't get the error anymore.

I appear to be an idiot. I'm sorry!

Chris

PS I do notice one other thing. When I make an entry in the se-lint-ignore.xml file addressing a "Manual Review" item in the output from a previous run of "se lint" and then run 'se lint' again, the entry is still there in the output. Is that the expected behavior, or should it go away?

Vince

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Lint is run from the top-level directory. I get no error when running it there, so whatever is going on would appear to be local to your environment. As I mentioned earlier, it _may_ be python 3.14, or it may not. I don’t know if anyone else here is running it.

Yes, it should go away; it didn't because you ran lint from /src instead of the top-level directory, where the ignore file is (and as mentioned above, where lint should be run from), so lint didn’t find it.

Re the ignore entry you added, it is incorrect, the problem lint identified should be fixed. Periods and commas go inside all quotes in US-style formatting. 

Chris Spurgeon

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Vince, thanks for all your help with this aggravating combination of my system's quirks and my first-timer confusion and errors!

I worked through all of the items in se lint and cleared them. I also removed the se-lint-ignore.xml file, since it is no longer needed. I think I am done and ready for vetting.

Chris

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Ok, I’ll take a look at this tonight.

-Robin

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Vince, thanks for all your help with this aggravating combination of my system's quirks and my first-timer confusion and errors!
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OK, I filed some issues at https://github.com/chrisspurgeon/anne-parrish_the-perennial-bachelor/issues/2.

I think most of them should be reasonably easy to fix, so don’t be put off that there are quite a few requests: that’s normal for a first production.

The hardest thing is going to be dealing with the requested commit changes. Have you done any git rebase work before?

-Robin

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Hi Robin, nice to meet you!

The issues do look pretty straightforward.

re git rebase, it's been a zillion years, but I think all I need to do is start out with `git rebase -i bb3ebd8` (that's the last commit before the commits you listed), then do the appropriate squashes, deletions, and commit message alterations.

To clarify my thinking, here is my understanding of the items that need attention, in reverse chronological order...

***Combine with previous***
0e55694 Tue Apr  7 15:53:08 2026 -0700
Pulled classes out of two more <hr/> tags.

***Combine with next***
ae47d27 Tue Apr  7 15:35:50 2026 -0700
Pulled classes out of two more <hr/> tags

***Correct this commit message***
b3c9287 Tue Apr  7 13:23:42 2026 -0700
[Editorial] musty-smelling --> musty-smelling.

***Drop this commit***
6ada1ff Sun Apr  5 17:46:32 2026 -0700
[Editorial] Changed 'draggled lace curtains' to 'bedraggled lace curtains'.


***Don't label this as Editorial***
f650985 Sat Apr  4 19:40:30 2026 -0700
[Editorial] Italicized a couple of French phrases.

***Don't label this as Editorial***
76bbd28 Sat Apr  4 19:30:15 2026 -0700
[Editorial] Changed 'turtle' to 'turtel' as it is in the scanned book. We're reading someone's hand-written note, so typos are OK.


***Combine with previous two***
b987c82 Mon Mar 30 21:28:56 2026 -0700
Damn, still two more missed em conversions.


***Combine with next***
db9251b Sun Mar 29 19:59:53 2026 -0700
Yet a couple more missed <em> tag conversions.


***Combine with next two***
d325d45 Sun Mar 29 19:56:20 2026 -0700
Missed a couple of <em> tag conversions.


***Drop this***
7b6a5d1 Sat Mar 28 22:42:06 2026 -0700
Revert "Removed a bunch of \x{2060}invisible characters."


***Drop this***
064f2f7 Sat Mar 28 21:09:59 2026 -0700
Removed a bunch of \x{2060}invisible characters.


Chris Spurgeon

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OK, rebase completed. Will tackle the issue list later today.

Chris Spurgeon

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"one more pass" tweaks done!

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Great Chris, thanks.

The commit history could be improved significantly here. There are lots
of items marked as editorial which are not, like running se semanticate.
You also make some changes, and then undo them in later commits. But in
those cases you should rebase your repo to drop the bad commits, instead
of introducing new commits to undo things.

Note that words that are in Merriam-Webster should not go in italics,
like table d'hote, cafe aut lait, repousee, and many others. Those are
just English now.

Also, unless it's an obvious typo we don't add or remove words, like
"the central park" -> "central park".

The short description must be a complete sentence, but in this one it's
a fragment.

This is also missing the Harper Prize metadata, even though it mentions
it in the long description.

The long description is mostly a biography of Parrish, but we don't want
that. If she has many books in our corpus, are we to repeat the
biography in each one? Instead, talk about the book. All I learned about
the book from this long description is "time takes a toll on an 1850s
family" and that it won some awards. What is the setting, what is the
toll taken, why is the toll taken, why is this dramatic, why is this
work deserving of prize? What is the plot? These are the things we
should talk about, instead of a Parrish biography.

I've corrected the other issues I mentioned, but can you please rewrite
the short and long descriptions, and push those to your repo?

On 4/17/26 12:30 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> OK Alex, over to you.
>
> -Robin
>
>> On 17 Apr 2026, at 03:58, Chris Spurgeon <spurge...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "one more pass" tweaks done!
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 11:27:39 PM UTC-7 Chris Spurgeon wrote:
>>
>> OK, all issues in https://github.com/chrisspurgeon/anne-
>> parrish_the-perennial-bachelor/issues/2 <https://github.com/
>> chrisspurgeon/anne-parrish_the-perennial-bachelor/issues/2>have
>> been addressed.
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 11:50:35 AM UTC-7 Chris Spurgeon
>> wrote:
>>
>> OK, rebase completed. Will tackle the issue list later today.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 10:02:07 PM UTC-7 Chris Spurgeon
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Robin, nice to meet you!
>>
>> The issues do look pretty straightforward.
>>
>> re git rebase, it's been a zillion years, but I think all
>> I need to do is start out with `git rebase -i bb3ebd8`
>> (that's the last commit before the commits you listed),
>> then do the appropriate squashes, deletions, and commit
>> message alterations.
>>
>> To clarify my thinking, here is my understanding of the
>> items that need attention, in reverse chronological order...
>>
>> ***Combine with previous***
>> 0e55694Tue Apr  7 15:53:08 2026 -0700
>> Pulled classes out of two more <hr/> tags.
>>
>> ***Combine with next***
>> ae47d27Tue Apr  7 15:35:50 2026 -0700
>> Pulled classes out of two more <hr/> tags
>>
>> ***Correct this commit message***
>> b3c9287Tue Apr  7 13:23:42 2026 -0700
>> [Editorial] musty-smelling --> musty-smelling.
>>
>> ***Drop this commit***
>> 6ada1ffSun Apr  5 17:46:32 2026 -0700
>> [Editorial] Changed 'draggled lace curtains' to
>> 'bedraggled lace curtains'.
>>
>>
>> ***Don't label this as Editorial***
>> f650985Sat Apr  4 19:40:30 2026 -0700
>> [Editorial] Italicized a couple of French phrases.
>>
>> ***Don't label this as Editorial***
>> 76bbd28Sat Apr  4 19:30:15 2026 -0700
>> [Editorial] Changed 'turtle' to 'turtel' as it is in the
>> scanned book. We're reading someone's hand-written note,
>> so typos are OK.
>>
>>
>> ***Combine with previous two***
>> b987c82Mon Mar 30 21:28:56 2026 -0700
>> Damn, still two more missed em conversions.
>>
>>
>> ***Combine with next***
>> db9251bSun Mar 29 19:59:53 2026 -0700
>> Yet a couple more missed <em> tag conversions.
>>
>>
>> ***Combine with next two***
>> d325d45Sun Mar 29 19:56:20 2026 -0700
>> Missed a couple of <em> tag conversions.
>>
>>
>> ***Drop this***
>> 7b6a5d1Sat Mar 28 22:42:06 2026 -0700
>> Revert "Removed a bunch of \x{2060}invisible characters."
>>
>>
>> ***Drop this***
>> 064f2f7Sat Mar 28 21:09:59 2026 -0700
>> Removed a bunch of \x{2060}invisible characters.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 1:13:29 PM UTC-7 robin wrote:
>>
>> OK, I filed some issues at https://github.com/
>> chrisspurgeon/anne-parrish_the-perennial-bachelor/
>> issues/2 <https://github.com/chrisspurgeon/anne-
>> parrish_the-perennial-bachelor/issues/2>.
>>>> *I appear to be an idiot. I'm sorry!*
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> PS I do notice one other thing. When I make an
>>>> entry in the se-lint-ignore.xml file addressing
>>>> a "Manual Review" item in the output from a
>>>> previous run of "se lint" and then run 'se lint'
>>>> again, the entry is still there in the output.
>>>> Is that the expected behavior, or should it go away?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, April 13, 2026 at 12:06:06 AM UTC-7
>>>> Chris Spurgeon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> OK, updated the ignore file with an entry.
>>>> The file now looks like this...
>>>>
>>>> /<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>>>> <se-lint-ignore>
>>>> <file path="chapter-27.xhtml">
>>>> <ignore code="y-013">
>>>> <line>132</line>
>>>> <reason>Single quote is part of a song title
>>>> being mentioned by the speaker.</reason>
>>>> </ignore>
>>>> </file>
>>>> </se-lint-ignore>
>>>> /
>>>>
>>>> I still get this error...
>>>>
>>>> / Error  se-lint-ignore.xml is invalid:
>>>> failed to compile: Wrong escape sequence,
>>>> misuse of character '\'/
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Hi Alex...

Geez, sorry for all the extra work you had to do! I'll try to be better as I go on.

I've rewritten the descriptions and pushed them up to my repo. I hope they give a clearer picture of the story.

Chris

Alex Cabal

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OK great, much better, thanks.

Note that after writing the long description, run se typogrify to
typogrify it. The long description cannot contain HTML entities like
&ldquo;, etc. You have to use Unicode characters just like in the text body.

I've released it!
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Great, thanks!

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