[First Project] The Line of Love by James Branch Cabell

[Jasmine Horton]

Hello! 

I have decided to go with a smaller scale project  for my first production -  The Line of Love by James Branch Cabell from the Wanted eBooks list. 

Text Source

Scan Sources: 1 - 2 

Repository 

Thanks, 
Jasmine Horton

[Alex Cabal]

Great, that one would be a good start.

This one is a little more complicated than usual but shouldn't be too
bad. There's a lot of front matter, with a dedication, intro, "epistle
dedicatory", so that requires a half title page. There are also
subchapters to each chapter, which should have their own <section
epub:type="z3998:subchapter">. There are also a few footnotes that have
to be pulled out into endnotes. Robin will manage with Emma reviewing.

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! :)

On 5/18/26 12:26 PM, Jasmine Horton wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have decided to go with a smaller scale project  for my first

> production - /The Line of Love/ by James Branch Cabell from the Wanted
> eBooks list.
>
> Text Source <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9488/pg9488-images.html>
> Scan Sources: 1 <https://archive.org/details/lineoflove0000jame_b0w6> -
> 2 <https://archive.org/details/lineoflove00caberich>
> Repository <https://github.com/jas-commit/james-branch-cabell_the-line-
> of-love/>
>
> Thanks,
> Jasmine Horton
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[Jasmine Horton]

Hello! 

I'm still cleaning up the errors from the lint tool, but here is my repository:

https://github.com/jas-commit/james-branch-cabell_the-line-of-love

Is there a better way to format the bridgehead for each chapter? The current way I have it is creating this error in lint: "Element with text-align: center; but text-indent is 1em."

Also, would it be possible to use one of the images from the illustrated edition for the cover? They are in the “fine art” oil painting style described in the guidelines. 

Thanks! 
Jasmine H.

[Alex Cabal]

Robin, thoughts?

On 6/2/26 3:20 PM, Jasmine Horton wrote:
> Hello!
>

> I'm still cleaning up the errors from the lint tool, but here is my
> repository:
> https://github.com/jas-commit/james-branch-cabell_the-line-of-love
>
> Is there a better way to format the bridgehead for each chapter? The
> current way I have it is creating this error in lint: "Element with
> text-align: center; but text-indent is 1em."
>
> Also, would it be possible to use one of the images from the illustrated

> edition <https://archive.org/details/lineoflove00caberich> for the

> cover? They are in the “fine art” oil painting style described in the
> guidelines.
>
> Thanks!
> Jasmine H.
> On Monday, May 18, 2026 at 2:19:05 PM UTC-4 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> Great, that one would be a good start.
>
> This one is a little more complicated than usual but shouldn't be too
> bad. There's a lot of front matter, with a dedication, intro, "epistle
> dedicatory", so that requires a half title page. There are also
> subchapters to each chapter, which should have their own <section
> epub:type="z3998:subchapter">. There are also a few footnotes that have
> to be pulled out into endnotes. Robin will manage with Emma reviewing.
>
> 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>
>

> https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/4-semantics <https://
> standardebooks.org/manual/latest/4-semantics>
>
> https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/7-high-level-structural-
> patterns <https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/7-high-level-
> structural-patterns>
>
> https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/8-typography <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 <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 <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! :)
>
>
> On 5/18/26 12:26 PM, Jasmine Horton wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have decided to go with a smaller scale project  for my first
> > production - /The Line of Love/ by James Branch Cabell from the
> Wanted
> > eBooks list.
> >
> > Text Source <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9488/pg9488-

> images.html <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9488/pg9488-
> images.html>>
> > Scan Sources: 1 <https://archive.org/details/
> lineoflove0000jame_b0w6 <https://archive.org/details/
> lineoflove0000jame_b0w6>> -
> > 2 <https://archive.org/details/lineoflove00caberich <https://
> archive.org/details/lineoflove00caberich>>
> > Repository <https://github.com/jas-commit/james-branch-
> cabell_the-line- <https://github.com/jas-commit/james-branch-
> cabell_the-line->

> > of-love/>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jasmine Horton
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[Robin Whittleton]

Sorry, I missed this even though I’d flagged it 🤦‍♂️

The structure of each chapter seems to be a bit unusual, but what you’ve got is basically:

• Chapter ordinal (e.g. VI)
• Chapter title: (a date)
• Epigraph (in French)
• An introductory note
• A chapter subtitle
• Then a series of numbered subchapters each with an ordinal and title

If this was me, I’d reorganise it slightly and move the chapter subtitle after the chapter title. After that, the markup would look like this (chapter 6 as an example):

<header>

<hgroup>

<h2 epub:type="z3998:ordinal z3998:roman">VI</h2>

<p epub:type="title">July 17, 1484</p>

<p epub:type="subtitle">The Episode Called the Conspiracy of Arnaye</p>

</hgroup>

     <blockquote epub:type="epigraph" xml:lang="fr">

<p>“Et puis il se rencontre icy une avanture merveilleuse, c’est que le fils de Grand Turc essemble à Cléonte, à peu de chose prés.”</p>

</blockquote>

</header>

<div epub:type="z3998:introductory-note">

<p>Noël d’Arnaye and Catherine de Vaucelles were married in the September of 1462, and afterward withdrew to Noël’s fief in Picardy. There Noël built him a new Chateau d’Arnaye, and through[…]

</div>

<section id="chapter-6-1" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">

<hgroup>

<h3 epub:type="z3998:ordinal z3998:roman">I</h3>

<p epub:type="title">Policy Tempered with Singing</p>

</hgroup>

[rest of content, etc]

You’ll need to add styles for epigraphs and section header epigraphs to local.css: https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.8/single-page#7.4. Also styles for block-level lang italicisation: https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.8/single-page#8.2.9.6. Note we don’t need to replicate the line layout in epigraphs, if they’re not verse (like here).

You potentially could add a style for [epub|type~="z3998:introductory-note"] to italicise it if you felt it warranted.

From a copyright and art style point of view we could use the images for a cover; my only hesitation is that potentially the quality isn’t quite there. They’re good scans, but on yellowish paper and not at a hugely high resolution. If you find one you really like let me know and I’ll add it to the DB. But you can always search the DB too for tags relating to your subject to see if anything else comes up: https://standardebooks.org/artworks

-Robin

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[Tim Walters]

I own the 1905 illustrated edition and would be happy to scan an image at high resolution if desired.

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[Alex Cabal]

That would be great! All of those artworks would be useful for covers
down the line, if you could scan all of them in the highest resolution
possible, then we could add them to our artwork database.

[Tim Walters]

Having scanned one, I think I'd better check to see if you really want them. There are three problems:

1. the pictures are small enough that the half-tone dots are clearly visible
2. the book won't lie very flat, so the gutter-side edge of the image will be blurred and/or dark--this one is from the middle of the book and is as good as it gets
3. Howard Pyle was much better at pen-and-ink than he was at painting

[Alex Cabal]

I think that's fine, the dots could be fixed by a blur filter and I
don't think one side looks especially darker than the other.

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>

[Tim Walters]

OK, here you go:

https://doubtfulpalace <https://doubtfulpalace/>.com/temp/cabell-pyle-line-of-love-scans.zip

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[Tim Walters]

Not sure what happened to that URL, hope this one is intact:

https://doubtfulpalace.com/temp/cabell-pyle-line-of-love-scans.zip

[Alex Cabal]

That's great, thank you! I'll have those uploaded sometime later today.

[Jasmine Horton]

I'm finishing up the lint errors, and wanted to double-check a few things:

What is the correct markup for <i epub:type="se:name.publication.periodical">New York Times</i> ?
Do I just paste the relevant CSS from the SEMOS into the local.css file ?

Thanks!

[Robin Whittleton]

We don’t have a periodical value, it’d be se:name.publication.newspaper. See https://standardebooks.org/vocab/1.0 for the allowed values.

For CSS needed specifically for this production, you’d copy it into local.css, yes.

-Robin

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[Jasmine Horton]

Thank you! 

I've made the relevant changes, and I think it's mostly ready to be proofread now - there's still a few lint errors that are getting flagged, but I'm a bit stuck on them since they seem to be technical "coding" ones. 

[Alex Cabal]

It's best to have all the lint errors cleared up before you begin
proofing, barring ones that can require having read the book, like cover
art, description, that sort of thing

On 6/7/26 4:52 PM, Jasmine Horton wrote:
> Thank you!
>
> I've made the relevant changes, and I think it's mostly ready to be
> proofread now - there's still a few lint errors that are getting
> flagged, but I'm a bit stuck on them since they seem to be technical
> "coding" ones.
>
> On Sunday, June 7, 2026 at 4:23:25 PM UTC-4 robin wrote:
>
> We don’t have a periodical value, it’d be
> se:name.publication.newspaper. See https://standardebooks.org/

> vocab/1.0 <https://standardebooks.org/vocab/1.0> for the allowed values.

>
> For CSS needed specifically for this production, you’d copy it into
> local.css, yes.
>
> -Robin
>
>> On 7 Jun 2026, at 21:01, Jasmine Horton <jasmin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm finishing up the lint errors, and wanted to double-check a few
>> things:
>>
>> What is the correct markup for<i
>> epub:type="se:name.publication.periodical">New York Times</i> ?
>> Do I just paste the relevant CSS from the SEMOS into

>> thelocal.cssfile ?

>>
>> Thanks!
>> On Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 4:20:40 PM UTC-4 Jasmine Horton wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm still cleaning up the errors from the lint tool, but here
>> is my repository:
>> https://github.com/jas-commit/james-branch-cabell_the-line-of-

>> love <https://github.com/jas-commit/james-branch-cabell_the-
>> line-of-love>

>>
>> Is there a better way to format the bridgehead for each
>> chapter? The current way I have it is creating this error in
>> lint: "Element with text-align: center; but text-indent is 1em."
>>
>> Also, would it be possible to use one of the images fromthe

>> illustrated edition <https://archive.org/details/
>> lineoflove00caberich>for the cover? They are in the “fine art”

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

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

>> latest/7-high-level-structural-patterns>
>>
>> https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/8-typography

>> <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 <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 <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! :)
>>
>>
>> On 5/18/26 12:26 PM, Jasmine Horton wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > I have decided to go with a smaller scale project  for
>> my first
>> > production - /The Line of Love/ by James Branch Cabell
>> from the Wanted
>> > eBooks list.
>> >

>> > Text Source <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9488/
>> pg9488-images.html <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/

>> epub/9488/pg9488-images.html>>

>> > Scan Sources: 1 <https://archive.org/details/
>> lineoflove0000jame_b0w6 <https://archive.org/details/
>> lineoflove0000jame_b0w6>> -
>> > 2 <https://archive.org/details/lineoflove00caberich
>> <https://archive.org/details/lineoflove00caberich>>
>> > Repository <https://github.com/jas-commit/james-branch-
>> cabell_the-line- <https://github.com/jas-commit/james-
>> branch-cabell_the-line->

>> > of-love/>
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Jasmine Horton
>> >
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[Jasmine Horton]

I have almost all the lint errors cleared besides the ones for cover art and metadata. 

There's  this stubborn one left for "Element with poem or verse semantic, without descendant <p> (stanza)." In the text, a character is quoting lines from a song in dialogue, so no stanza is needed: would it be best to drop the epub:type and use <em> instead?

[Robin Whittleton]

You can just use a plain <i>: “The i element represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood.”

However, the third one appears to be a reference to a specific song. For that we’d use <span epub:type="se:name.music.song">, remove the italics, wrap it in quotemarks, and titlecase the text:

I warrant you, to the tune of ‘<span epub:type="se:name.publication.song">Hey, Then Up Go We!</span>’ ”

-Robin

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[Jasmine Horton]

Good morning! 

Have the images from the scanned illustrations been approved? 

The lint errors have been taken care of, so I'm ready to move on to the cover and proofing. 

Thanks,
Jasmine

[Robin Whittleton]

Looks like we’re still waiting on Alex to find a spare hour to upload the images. But feel free to start proofing now, the cover can wait until after.

-Robin

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