[Next Project] Sir Nigel by Arthur Conan Doyle

[Robert Leonard]

Hello!

Onto my next project! I saw this was still available and didn't immediately see anyone else working on it yet. 

Title: Sir Nigel (Book 1 in the Sir Nigel Loring series -- prequel to The White Company)

PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2845

Scans: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t71v5j081&seq=1 (going with the University of California scan of the 1906 1st edition over the Harvard due the quality of the scans and clarity of the images). 

Git Repository: https://github.com/pahootaman/arthur-conan-doyle_sir-nigel (haven't gone any further than importing the repository and the rough cleanup "initial commit"). If the project is rejected, I'll get rid of it. 

No idea on a cover image yet, I haven't searched one out. The original cover image leaves a lot to be desired, but since this is a story of a fledgling knight on a treasure hunt; that is the inspiration I'll be working with in my search. 

Thank you all again, I'll be more than excited to get to work if approved. 

Thanks, 

Rob

[Alex Cabal]

Sure, you can work on that. Vince will manage with Weijia reviewing.

For cover art, I used an NC Wyeth illustration of The White Company. He
did more illustrations for that book so you could pick another one. He
also illustrated The Boy's King Arthur so that would be another place to
look for medieval-knight type illustrations.

On 1/31/26 2:52 PM, Robert Leonard wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Onto my next project! I saw this was still available and didn't
> immediately see anyone else working on it yet.
>

> *Title*: Sir Nigel (Book 1 in the Sir Nigel Loring series -- prequel to
> The White Company)
> *PG*: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2845 <https://www.gutenberg.org/
> ebooks/2845>
> *Scans*: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/
> t71v5j081&seq=1 <https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/
> t71v5j081&seq=6> (going with the University of California scan of the

> 1906 1st edition over the Harvard due the quality of the scans and
> clarity of the images).

> *Git Repository*: https://github.com/pahootaman/arthur-conan-doyle_sir-
> nigel <https://github.com/pahootaman/arthur-conan-doyle_sir-nigel>

> (haven't gone any further than importing the repository and the rough
> cleanup "initial commit"). If the project is rejected, I'll get rid of it.
>
> No idea on a cover image yet, I haven't searched one out. The original
> cover image leaves a lot to be desired, but since this is a story of a
> fledgling knight on a treasure hunt; that is the inspiration I'll be
> working with in my search.
>
> Thank you all again, I'll be more than excited to get to work if approved.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>

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[Robert Leonard]

Thanks! 

I’ll give your illustration recs a look. Thanks again! 

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[David]

I'll be looking forward to this one! It's been on my "maybe" list since hearing the readings from it which introduced episodes 318-321 of "The Rest is History" podcast (back in April 2023), one of their earlier ones on the Hundred Years' War. One of Tom Holland's favourites, as it turns out! :)

David / Fife, UK

On Sunday, 1 February 2026 at 01:23:25 UTC Robert wrote:

Thanks! 

I’ll give your illustration recs a look. Thanks again! 

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[Weijia Cheng]

Ok, noted.

On Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 4:39:41 AM UTC-5 David wrote:

I'll be looking forward to this one! It's been on my "maybe" list since hearing the readings from it which introduced episodes 318-321 of "The Rest is History" podcast (back in April 2023), one of their earlier ones on the Hundred Years' War. One of Tom Holland's favourites, as it turns out! :)

David / Fife, UK

On Sunday, 1 February 2026 at 01:23:25 UTC Robert wrote:

Thanks! 

I’ll give your illustration recs a look. Thanks again! 

[Robert Leonard]

Hello, 

I'm currently cleaning out the Project Gutenberg coding and I have a question with chapter naming. What I wanted to know is if there's a tool I can use for automatic chapter naming. Otherwise, am I typing in the chapter name manually? It's no problem if I have to, just wanted to get the process straight. I've attached a snippet of code from chapter 1 to show what I'm working with.

I'm also having issues getting the se titlecase tool to work. I intentionally all caps the chapter title on line 4, then tried to run the tool but no change was made. Also, should I have the "I: " in the title line? My last production had it, but I don't remember if that's a SE standard (didn't immediately see anything in the style guide, but I could have missed it) or if that was a stylistic choice. 

Chapter I code

Chapter II code - I haven't gone through to chapters II - XXVII yet in regard to this exercise, just wanted to show you the Project Gutenberg code I'm having to reformat. 

The chapter headers seem to be the parts of code that need to most work (at this stage) in this exercise, before I move on to the rest of the ebook, I want to make sure that I got the code right in Chapter 1. 

Thank you again! 

Rob 

[Weijia Cheng]

se titlecase doesn't modify any files. You pass in a string to titlecase and it outputs the titlecased version to the console. Copy and paste the output of se titlecase into the relevant point in your HTML. (Note that this means that you can also use se titlecase to figure out how you should change the capitalization of titles inside the body of a chapter, e.g. when books are cited.)

The <title> elements are set by se build-title (step #19 in the guide) so you don't need to worry about that. Just make sure that the headings and hgroups are set up correctly.

[Robert Leonard]

Thanks for clarifying! That makes total sense. Alright, back to work. 

[Alex Cabal]

You can also bind titlecase to a keyboard shortcut in your editor to
make it much easier to use on text you have selected

> CH1 CODE.png
>
> Chapter II code - I haven't gone through to chapters II - XXVII yet
> in regard to this exercise, just wanted to show you the Project
> Gutenberg code I'm having to reformat.

> Ch 2 code.png
>
> The chapter headers seem to be the parts of code that need to most
> work (at this stage) in this exercise, before I move on to the rest
> of the ebook, I want to make sure that I got the code right in
> Chapter 1.
>
> Thank you again!
> Rob
> On Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 5:48:09 AM UTC-5 weij...@bu.edu wrote:
>
> Ok, noted.
>
> On Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 4:39:41 AM UTC-5 David wrote:
>
> I'll be looking forward to this one! It's been on my "maybe"
> list since hearing the readings from it which introduced
> episodes 318-321 of "The Rest is History" podcast (back in
> April 2023), one of their earlier ones on the Hundred Years'
> War. One of Tom Holland's favourites, as it turns out! :)
>
> David / Fife, UK
>
> On Sunday, 1 February 2026 at 01:23:25 UTC Robert wrote:
>
> Thanks!
>
> I’ll give your illustration recs a look. Thanks again!
>

> *From:* 'Alex Cabal' via Standard Ebook
>
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 31, 2026 8:16:12 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [standardebooks] [Next Project] Sir Nigel

> by Arthur Conan Doyle
>
> Sure, you can work on that. Vince will manage with
> Weijia reviewing.
>
> For cover art, I used an NC Wyeth illustration of The
> White Company. He
> did more illustrations for that book so you could pick
> another one. He
> also illustrated The Boy's King Arthur so that would be
> another place to
> look for medieval-knight type illustrations.
>

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[Vince]

Thanks for helping out, Weijia, I was out this morning.

[Robert Leonard]

Hi Weijia and Vince, 

I have a question regarding lists of illustrations. The first edition of Sir Nigel (and it's pdf scan) have illustrations throughout the text. When I created the skeleton for the text using --pg-id, none of the images carried over. I'm assuming I'm missing a step, but I didn't see how else to create a LOI other than when se first imported over the text. Apologies for my technical ignorance in advance, lol. 

Thanks, 

Rob

[Alex Cabal]

All decorative images are removed as a matter of policy, so just ignore
them.

On 2/20/26 11:31 AM, Robert Leonard wrote:
> Hi Weijia and Vince,
>
> I have a question regarding lists of illustrations. The first edition of
> Sir Nigel (and it's pdf scan) have illustrations throughout the text.
> When I created the skeleton for the text using --pg-id, none of the
> images carried over. I'm assuming I'm missing a step, but I didn't see
> how else to create a LOI other than when se first imported over the
> text. Apologies for my technical ignorance in advance, lol.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
> On Tuesday, February 3, 2026 at 1:08:57 PM UTC-5 Vince wrote:
>
> Thanks for helping out, Weijia, I was out this morning.
>
>
>> On Feb 3, 2026, at 10:26 AM, Robert Leonard <rleona...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for clarifying! That makes total sense. Alright, back to work.
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 3, 2026 at 11:06:12 AM UTC-5 weij...@bu.edu

>> <http://bu.edu/>wrote:

>>
>> se titlecase doesn't modify any files. You pass in a string to
>> titlecase and it outputs the titlecased version to the
>> console. Copy and paste the output of se titlecase into the
>> relevant point in your HTML. (Note that this means that you
>> can also use se titlecase to figure out how you should change
>> the capitalization of titles inside the body of a chapter,
>> e.g. when books are cited.)
>>
>> The <title> elements are set by se build-title (step #19 in
>> the guide) so you don't need to worry about that. Just make
>> sure that the headings and hgroups are set up correctly.
>

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[Robert Leonard]

Sounds good and will do. Makes things way easier that way.