[Next Project] Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana
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Kevin Palm
Apr 18, 2023, 10:59:39 AMApr 18
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I'm most likely putting the cart before the horse as I'm just starting the review process on my first book, but I didn't realize how fun and addictive this process is! I'd like to try "Two Years Before the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana for my next project. Guess I'm sticking with a nautical theme... ;-)
Alex Cabal
Apr 18, 2023, 11:04:42 AMApr 18
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Sure, you can start that, but please wait until after your first book is
reviewed as often there is a lot of work left to do after a first
production.
Cut the introduction as it's not interesting. This work also has
bridgeheads and endnotes. Please send a link to your repo once you get
started.
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reviewed as often there is a lot of work left to do after a first
production.
Cut the introduction as it's not interesting. This work also has
bridgeheads and endnotes. Please send a link to your repo once you get
started.
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Kevin Palm
Apr 18, 2023, 11:06:01 AMApr 18
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Thanks, Alex! I'll definitely wait, I just wanted to get my foot in the door!
Kevin Palm
Apr 20, 2023, 8:24:23 PMApr 20
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The PG version has a poem before the preface, and I have a question before I do my first commit and open a repository::
" ——Crowded in the rank and narrow ship,
Housed on the wild sea with wild usages,
Whate'er in the inland dales the land conceals
Of fair and exquisite, O! nothing, nothing,
Do we behold of that in our rude voyage.
Coleridge's Wallenstein."
The scan I'm looking at only has one line of it:
"Housed on the wild sea with wild usages."
Should I keep ANY of it, or cut it?
" ——Crowded in the rank and narrow ship,
Housed on the wild sea with wild usages,
Whate'er in the inland dales the land conceals
Of fair and exquisite, O! nothing, nothing,
Do we behold of that in our rude voyage.
Coleridge's Wallenstein."
The scan I'm looking at only has one line of it:
"Housed on the wild sea with wild usages."
Should I keep ANY of it, or cut it?
Alex Cabal
Apr 20, 2023, 8:26:31 PMApr 20
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Please send a link to your repo first so we can assign you a manager
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Kevin Palm
Apr 20, 2023, 9:01:03 PMApr 20
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Roger that!
My repository: https://github.com/PiperKev/richard-henry-dana-jr_two-years-before-the-mast
Scans: https://archive.org/details/twoyearsbeforema0000henr/mode/2up
My repository: https://github.com/PiperKev/richard-henry-dana-jr_two-years-before-the-mast
Scans: https://archive.org/details/twoyearsbeforema0000henr/mode/2up
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Alex Cabal
Apr 20, 2023, 9:06:03 PMApr 20
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Emma can you manage this with Vince reviewing?
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Emma Sweeney
Apr 21, 2023, 12:12:03 AMApr 21
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Sure.
As for the poem, you can keep the whole section and put it in an epigraph file.
Emma
Kevin Palm
Apr 21, 2023, 7:17:47 PMApr 21
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Thanks, Emma! Now I just have to figure out how to do that... ;-)
Kevin Palm
Apr 22, 2023, 4:58:34 PMApr 22
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I came across the following (It appears to be a note from one of the PG editors):
"[Editor's note: the "166°" in the following paragraph is clearly an error, with "116°" actually meant. Longitude 166° would have put the ship southwest of the Sandwich Islands. However, this printing error goes back to at least an 1869 edition of this book.]
Sunday, May 22d. Lat. 5° 14' N., long. 166° 45' W. "
"[Editor's note: the "166°" in the following paragraph is clearly an error, with "116°" actually meant. Longitude 166° would have put the ship southwest of the Sandwich Islands. However, this printing error goes back to at least an 1869 edition of this book.]
Sunday, May 22d. Lat. 5° 14' N., long. 166° 45' W. "
How should I deal with this?
Emma Sweeney
Apr 22, 2023, 7:07:20 PMApr 22
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If you can find page scans that shows "116°" then you can correct this. Otherwise, leave it as is.
Emma
Kevin Palm
Apr 23, 2023, 8:58:26 AMApr 23
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I found scans as early as an 1844 edition on Hathi that still had the 166, so I'll just keep it and remove the editor's note.
Kevin Palm
Apr 23, 2023, 11:39:27 AMApr 23
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Nice! I just looked for earlier editions assuming it had been corrupted in a later edition, not the other way around! Since the second edition you found with the correction was published in 1907, I'd think that would be justification to change it! Thanks!
Emma Sweeney
Apr 23, 2023, 2:40:36 PMApr 23
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I almost forgot: make this change as an [editorial] commit.
Emma
Kevin Palm
Apr 23, 2023, 5:53:43 PMApr 23
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Done! Thank goodness for "git commit --amend" :-)
Kevin Palm
Apr 27, 2023, 9:50:42 AMApr 27
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So, se find-mismatched-dashes flagged a couple of instances of "bucket-maker" (2) vs. "bucketmaker" (1). The "bucketmaker" instance is actually a nickname for someone:
"He was born in Hingham, and of course was called “Bucketmaker.”"
One of the instances of "bucket-maker" refers to the same person in a later chapter:
"Nat, the “bucket-maker,” grave and sober, left the seas..."
"He was born in Hingham, and of course was called “Bucketmaker.”"
One of the instances of "bucket-maker" refers to the same person in a later chapter:
"Nat, the “bucket-maker,” grave and sober, left the seas..."
The other instance refers to a vocation:
"One of our boys was the son of a bucket-maker..."
How should I handle these?
"One of our boys was the son of a bucket-maker..."
How should I handle these?
Emma Sweeney
Apr 27, 2023, 1:34:05 PMApr 27
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I recommend changing "bucket-maker" to "bucketmaker". Make sure this change is an [Editorial] commit.
Emma
Kevin Palm
Apr 27, 2023, 2:12:14 PMApr 27
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Roger! Should the second nickname be capitalized like the first one?
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Emma Sweeney
Apr 27, 2023, 2:39:25 PMApr 27
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You can capitalize the nickname.
Emma
Kevin Palm
Apr 27, 2023, 5:19:02 PMApr 27
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Thanks, Emma. Done.
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Kevin Palm
Apr 27, 2023, 9:20:46 PMApr 27
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Having a problem with my ToC. I built the manifest and spine with no problems but, when I build the ToC, I get a duplicate entry for the final chapter, 38. It's an unnumbered chapter, titled "Twenty Four Years After", and the two ToC entries reference
<a href="text/chapter-38.xhtml">Twenty-Four Years After</a>
<a href="text/chapter-38.xhtml">Twenty-Four Years After</a>
<a href="text/chapter-38.xhtml#chapter-38">Twenty-Four Years After</a>
I've gone through content.opf and chapter-38.xhtml with a fine-toothed comb, and I can't figure out why the chapter has a duplicate entry. I suppose I could manually edit the ToC, but that's not how I want to fix this. Any ideas?
I committed the manifest and spine already, but I'm attaching the toc.xhtml file since I don't want to commit a bad file.
I've gone through content.opf and chapter-38.xhtml with a fine-toothed comb, and I can't figure out why the chapter has a duplicate entry. I suppose I could manually edit the ToC, but that's not how I want to fix this. Any ideas?
I committed the manifest and spine already, but I'm attaching the toc.xhtml file since I don't want to commit a bad file.
Emma Sweeney
Apr 27, 2023, 9:51:30 PMApr 27
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You need to use <h2> and <h3> elements for the chapter titles.
Emma
Emma Sweeney
Apr 27, 2023, 9:52:56 PMApr 27
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Make sure to address the lint errors that are related to the file headers before building the ToC.
Emma
Kevin
Apr 27, 2023, 10:01:01 PMApr 27
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I will run it. I was following the
Step by Step guide, which doesn't have you running lint until
after building the ToC, so I didn't think to run it.
Oh boy, lint says I have a LOT of work to do... :-)
Oh boy, lint says I have a LOT of work to do... :-)
Kevin Palm
Apr 28, 2023, 11:08:26 AMApr 28
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Discovered that my ToC issue was an extra header in Chapter 38. Once I removed that tag and fixed all the other header issues, my ToC is correct.
I'm getting some "Non-English confusable phrase set without italics." errors from lint for some foreign phrases that are in M-W, like
par excellence
ex-officio (without the dash in M-W)
ad infinitum
Since these ARE in M-W, I believe they don't need to be italicized so, should I just ignore the lint errors, or put the chapter in lint-ignore.xml in case there are legitimate errors in other chapters, or something else?
I'm getting some "Non-English confusable phrase set without italics." errors from lint for some foreign phrases that are in M-W, like
par excellence
ex-officio (without the dash in M-W)
ad infinitum
Since these ARE in M-W, I believe they don't need to be italicized so, should I just ignore the lint errors, or put the chapter in lint-ignore.xml in case there are legitimate errors in other chapters, or something else?
Kevin Palm
Apr 28, 2023, 11:39:19 AMApr 28
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One other issue, Dana tends to end a paragraph without punctuation when referencing a date, like:
"In the midst of our painting, on</p>
<p>Friday, <abbr>Dec.</abbr> 19th,..."
and
"and at daybreak on the morning of</p>
<p>Tuesday, Jan 13th, 1835..."
Of course, lint flags these with "Possible typo: paragraph missing ending punctuation." Again, add these to lint-ignore.xml?
"In the midst of our painting, on</p>
<p>Friday, <abbr>Dec.</abbr> 19th,..."
and
"and at daybreak on the morning of</p>
<p>Tuesday, Jan 13th, 1835..."
Of course, lint flags these with "Possible typo: paragraph missing ending punctuation." Again, add these to lint-ignore.xml?
Alex Cabal
Apr 28, 2023, 12:00:06 PMApr 28
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Kevin Palm
Apr 28, 2023, 12:10:12 PMApr 28
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Thanks, Alex! The more I read the SEMoS, the more I seem to miss... :-(
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Emma Sweeney
Apr 28, 2023, 1:33:53 PMApr 28
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Your page scans show an em-dash at the end of "In the midst of our painting, on". You can ignore the second example.
Emma
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Kevin Palm
Apr 30, 2023, 1:33:53 PMApr 30
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Disregard my last post, I'm going to attempt to soldier on and finish this. It may not be done quickly, but hopefully it'll be correctly...
Emma Sweeney
Apr 30, 2023, 8:08:47 PMApr 30
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Take your time! We prefer it done correctly vs quickly. If you still feel like it's too big of a project and want to work on something else, that's OK as well.
Emma
Kevin Palm
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Thanks, Emma! I was just having a crisis of confidence (and some sleep deprivation. :-) ). Will do!
lint is throwing an error on my epigraph.xhtml file:
│ t-070 │ Manual Review │ epigraph.xhtml │ <cite> in epigraph ending in a period. │
├───────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │ │ → │ <cite>Coleridge’s Wallenstein.</cite>
lint is throwing an error on my epigraph.xhtml file:
│ t-070 │ Manual Review │ epigraph.xhtml │ <cite> in epigraph ending in a period. │
├───────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │ │ → │ <cite>Coleridge’s Wallenstein.</cite>
The only place I've found so far with the complete verse and citation is an 1899 edition on Hathi:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn5b3l
This edition DOESN'T have the period after the "Coleridge's Wollenstein" citation:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn5b3l
This edition DOESN'T have the period after the "Coleridge's Wollenstein" citation:
Can I delete the period without making it an Editorial commit?
Emma Sweeney
May 1, 2023, 4:56:27 PMMay 1
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Removing this period doesn't have to be an editorial commit. I usually include this change in a commit titled "Manual typography changes".
Emma
Kevin Palm
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