Robin, thoughts?
> page#7.7 <
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> manual/1.8.4/single-page#7.7.4.4 <
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> -Robin
>
>> On 9 Aug 2025, at 23:23, Systemchalk <
syste...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I ran in to a small difficulty in Chapter 11 as there is an
>> extended letter. Only part of it is treated with special typing,
>> but given that it was technically a letter I encased it with the
>> letter tagging. I have a suspicion though that this might make for
>> odd formatting in the final product, so I wanted to check in
>> before committing too much else so I could make a simple
>> adjustment. The section is in:
https://github.com/systemchalk/p-g-
>> wodehouse_the-adventures-of-sally/blob/main/src/epub/text/
>> chapter-11.xhtml <
https://github.com/systemchalk/p-g-
>> wodehouse_the-adventures-of-sally/blob/main/src/epub/text/
>> chapter-11.xhtml>
>>
>> On Sunday, May 25, 2025 at 5:57:54 AM UTC-4 robin wrote:
>>
>> Nonsense words don’t get italicised, just things that are
>> specifically representing sounds. Let’s leave it as is.
>>
>> -Robin
>>
>>> On 24 May 2025, at 20:58, Systemchalk <
syste...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the follow up and catching the error in the
>>> dedication.
>>>
>>> Regarding 3, I lost my note for this but I was almost
>>> certainly referring to the "Tiddly-omty-om" on page 105 in
>>> the source book (line 98 in chapter-6.xhtml in the files). I
>>> kind of seems like it falls under sound, but maybe not as
>>> clear as the usual suspects like 'poof'.
>>>
>>> I think that's what I need so far. I either have or will
>>> quickly implement the remaining points. I suspect I'll have
>>> some follow up because the next few chapters have a bunch of
>>> signs and posters, but where I can I try to see if there's a
>>> clear rule in the manual and then just collect the ones I was
>>> uncertain about into one of these messages.
>>> On Monday, May 12, 2025 at 3:05:05 PM UTC-4 robin wrote:
>>>
>>> 1a: We can just follow our imprint style here rather than
>>> trying to replicate the book exactly. What you’ve done is
>>> fine (although you don’t need the hgroup).
>>>
>>> 1b: I was going to say that you’re welcome to add
>>> z3998:letter as well, but it looks like Alex removed the
>>> same from at least one of my productions <https://
>>>
github.com/standardebooks/compton-mackenzie_sinister-
>>> street/commit/39d892547a8911f9e10732753930ebe887234e7e>,
>>> so let’s just leave it as dedication.
>>>
>>> 1c: You can leave out the dateline semantics. I’d be
>>> tempted to just put it in the same <p> as above with a
>>> <br/> separating it, and move the sender semantics to a
>>> span? You can replicate the italics if you want with a
>>> style: we don’t have any house style on that.
>>>
>>> (sidenote: produciton -> production)
>>>
>>> 2a: for telegrams, treat them semantically as an ordinary
>>> letter, but also add the class and the associated style
>>> from
https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.2/single-
>>> page#7.7.2 <
https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.2/
>>> single-page#7.7.2> . For an example, look at https://
>>>
github.com/standardebooks/p-g-wodehouse_short-fiction/
>>> blob/master/src/epub/text/death-at-the-
>>> excelsior.xhtml#L118-L120 <
https://github.com/
>>> standardebooks/p-g-wodehouse_short-fiction/blob/master/
>>> src/epub/text/death-at-the-excelsior.xhtml#L118-L120>
>>>> 1. I think we should include that. Read the
>>>> <
https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.1/single-
>>>> page#7.3>. As this is frontmatter we’ll need a
>>>> manual/1.8.1/single-page#6.5 <https://
>>>>
standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.1/single-
>>>> page#6.5>. I’d recommend doing it now rather
>>>> than later, as you’ll need to run all the future
>>>> steps against it. Come back if you need
>>>> additional info on this.
>>>> 2. No, you can omit the word chapter, even for
>>>> subchapters.
>>>> 3. plage is fine as is. I wouldn’t even mark them
>>>> up with a span, as if they’re in MW we consider
>>>> them adopted into English at this point.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Robin
>>>>
>>>>> On 3 Feb 2025, at 03:15, Systemchalk
>>>>> paragraph), it refers to the "Roville/plage/" but
>>>>> Mirriam-Webster does define this. Where I may be
>>>>> going astray as to what constitues a "basic online
>>>>> search result." Quite a number of these instances
>>>>> are found in the dictionary and so I have generally
>>>>> found myself using <span> more than I would have
>>>>> expected to use <i> which is the reason why I think
>>>>> I might be misinterpreting the guidance.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have commited the manual semantic work for the
>>>>> first three chapters to the repository. I'm most
>>>>> likely to be free to work on this next weekend and
>>>>> will be happy to incorporate any guidance or
>>>>> corrections for these preliminary sections or in
>>>>> response to these questions.
>>>>> On Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 10:39:41 PM UTC-5
>>>>>
weijia...@gmail.com <
http://gmail.com/>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That is no problem. Just be aware that if this
>>>>> goes by for many months without progress, it
>>>>> might be marked as abandoned and someone else
>>>>> could claim this book to work on.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 8:26:36 PM UTC-5
>>>>> Systemchalk wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey folks. I thought I should give an
>>>>> account for my lack of comments/progress.
>>>>> This is a purely weekends project and sadly
>>>>> I have been sick for the last two and so
>>>>> have been held up at the symanticate step.
>>>>> I hope to be on track next weekend at the
>>>>> latest (though I'll try to sneak in some
>>>>> time on Tuesday or Thursday). No questions
>>>>> that weren't handled by the documentation
>>>>> yet but I suspect there will be a couple of
>>>>> formatting choices from the scan that I'll
>>>>> flag for comment once I implement them.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 5:10:48 PM
>>>>>
UTC-5weijia...@gmail.com <
http://gmail.com/
>>>>> >wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Review noted.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sunday, December 29, 2024 at
>>>>> 3:04:42 PM UTC-5 Alex Cabal wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Fortunately we don't use markdown
>>>>> anywhere in the process!
>>>>>
>>>>> Robin will be managing this project
>>>>> with Weijia reviewing.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/29/24 11:12 AM, Systemchalk
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Thanks for the resources.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > The GitHub is up with the first
>>>>> three commits at: GitHub -
>>>>> > systemchalk/p-g-wodehouse_the-
>>>>> adventures-of-sally
>>>>> > <
https://github.com/systemchalk/
>>>>> p-g-wodehouse_the-adventures-of-
>>>>> sally <
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>>>>> systemchalk/p-g-wodehouse_the-
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