[First Project] Jenny by Sigrid Undset

[Liam Delaney]

I've been really enjoying this website so I thought I'd volunteer. I saw Jenny by Sigrid Undset on the wanted books list so I was hoping to give that a shot - been a fan of her work.

Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60741

Scans: https://archive.org/details/jenny01unds

I was looking in past conversations here and saw someone else attempted the book earlier, but there didn't seem to be much movement on it past April or so. Wasn't sure if it got abandoned - if there's a conflict I'm more than happy to pick a different book.

Thanks!

[Alex Cabal]

Great, that one would be a good start. You can work on this one since
the last attempt was abandoned.

See the manual for how to structure the part divisions.

This book uses blank space for thematic breaks, make sure to use <hr/>
for those.

Otherwise this should be pretty straightforward.

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:

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 we can assign you a manager and reviewer.

Have fun! 🙂

On 11/23/25 6:22 PM, Liam Delaney wrote:
> I've been really enjoying this website so I thought I'd volunteer. I

> saw /Jenny/ by Sigrid Undset on the wanted books list so I was hoping to

> give that a shot - been a fan of her work.
>

> Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60741 <https://
> www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60741>
> Scans: https://archive.org/details/jenny01unds <https://archive.org/
> details/jenny01unds>

>
> I was looking in past conversations here and saw someone else attempted
> the book earlier, but there didn't seem to be much movement on it past
> April or so. Wasn't sure if it got abandoned - if there's a conflict I'm
> more than happy to pick a different book.
>
> Thanks!
>

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[Liam Delaney]

Thanks! Here's the repository with the initial commit: https://github.com/liamDelaney/sigrid-undset_jenny

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Robin will manage with Lukas reviewing.

On 11/23/25 8:15 PM, Liam Delaney wrote:
> Thanks! Here's the repository with the initial commit: https://

> github.com/liamDelaney/sigrid-undset_jenny <https://github.com/
> liamDelaney/sigrid-undset_jenny>

>
> On Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 7:50:56 PM UTC-5 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> Great, that one would be a good start. You can work on this one since
> the last attempt was abandoned.
>
> See the manual for how to structure the part divisions.
>
> This book uses blank space for thematic breaks, make sure to use <hr/>
> for those.
>
> Otherwise this should be pretty straightforward.
>
> 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:
>
> 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 we can assign you a manager and reviewer.
>
> Have fun! 🙂
>
> On 11/23/25 6:22 PM, Liam Delaney wrote:
> > I've been really enjoying this website so I thought I'd volunteer. I
> > saw /Jenny/ by Sigrid Undset on the wanted books list so I was
> hoping to
> > give that a shot - been a fan of her work.
> >
> > Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60741 <https://

> www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60741> <https://
> > www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60741 <http://www.gutenberg.org/

> ebooks/60741>>
> > Scans: https://archive.org/details/jenny01unds <https://

> archive.org/details/jenny01unds> <https://archive.org/ <https://
> archive.org/>

> > details/jenny01unds>
> >
> > I was looking in past conversations here and saw someone else
> attempted
> > the book earlier, but there didn't seem to be much movement on it
> past
> > April or so. Wasn't sure if it got abandoned - if there's a
> conflict I'm
> > more than happy to pick a different book.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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[Liam Delaney]

Have a quick question about semantics for letters. In the scans of the text itself (and the Gutenberg page) the valedictions are attached to the last paragraph of the letter's body with a em dash. Should those be put in the footer or kept outside of it? 

An example would be the letter at the end of Part 3, Chapter 6: https://github.com/liamDelaney/sigrid-undset_jenny/blob/master/src/epub/text/chapter-3-6.xhtml

Thanks!

[Vince Rice]

Robin will answer your question, but the link should be to the page in the scans so he can see what the original looks like. Also, the link below gives a 404.

On Nov 24, 2025, at 8:30 PM, Liam Delaney <lg...@cornell.edu> wrote:

Have a quick question about semantics for letters. In the scans of the text itself (and the Gutenberg page) the valedictions are attached to the last paragraph of the letter's body with a em dash. Should those be put in the footer or kept outside of it? 

[Liam Delaney]

My bad - here's the link to the page scan (pg. 251): https://archive.org/details/jenny01unds/page/250/mode/2up

The repo link should work as well to now - forgot it was set to private.

[Robin Whittleton]

Thanks for the link. If the valediction is part of the body it can remain there, but mark it up with a <span epub:type="z3998:valediction">.

-Robin

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