[First Project] Saragossa by Benito Pérez Galdós

[Jon Azose]

Hi Alex and company,

I'd like to try Saragossa for a first project.

I see a couple of previous attempts here and here which appear to be abandoned. If you're not ready to declare them abandoned yet, I'm happy to pick a different project.

Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47769
Scans: https://archive.org/details/saragossa0000unse/mode/2up

All the best.

-Jon

[Alex Cabal]

Great, that one would be a good start. You can work on it, as the past
attempts were abandoned.

See those previous threads for special notes about this ebook before you
begin.

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 5/1/26 3:37 PM, Jon Azose wrote:
> Hi Alex and company,
>
> I'd like to try Saragossa for a first project.
>

> I see a couple of previous attempts here <https://groups.google.com/g/
> standardebooks/c/kLA3Eu32iLg/m/99t9ryaOBQAJ> and here <https://
> groups.google.com/g/standardebooks/c/IOgR35f4Urg/m/HDpWK47ZDAAJ> which

> appear to be abandoned. If you're not ready to declare them abandoned
> yet, I'm happy to pick a different project.
>

> Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47769 <https://
> www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47769>
> Scans: https://archive.org/details/saragossa0000unse/mode/2up <https://
> archive.org/details/saragossa0000unse/mode/2up>
>
> All the best.
>
> -Jon
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[Jon Azose]

Thank you.

Here's my Github repository with an initial commit.

https://github.com/jonazose/benito-perez-galdos_saragossa_minna-caroline-smith

All the best.

-Jon

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Vince will manage with Weijia reviewing.

On 5/2/26 10:51 PM, Jon Azose wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> Here's my Github repository with an initial commit.
>
> https://github.com/jonazose/benito-perez-galdos_saragossa_minna-
> caroline-smith
>
> All the best.
>
> -Jon
>
> On Saturday, May 2, 2026 at 11:59:12 AM UTC-7 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> Great, that one would be a good start. You can work on it, as the past
> attempts were abandoned.
>
> See those previous threads for special notes about this ebook before
> you
> begin.
>
> 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 5/1/26 3:37 PM, Jon Azose wrote:
> > Hi Alex and company,
> >
> > I'd like to try Saragossa for a first project.
> >
> > I see a couple of previous attempts here <https://

> groups.google.com/g/ <https://groups.google.com/g/>

> > standardebooks/c/kLA3Eu32iLg/m/99t9ryaOBQAJ> and here <https://
> > groups.google.com/g/standardebooks/c/IOgR35f4Urg/m/HDpWK47ZDAAJ

> <http://groups.google.com/g/standardebooks/c/IOgR35f4Urg/m/

> HDpWK47ZDAAJ>> which
> > appear to be abandoned. If you're not ready to declare them
> abandoned
> > yet, I'm happy to pick a different project.
> >
> > Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47769

> <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47769> <https://
> > www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47769 <http://www.gutenberg.org/

> ebooks/47769>>
> > Scans: https://archive.org/details/saragossa0000unse/mode/2up
> <https://archive.org/details/saragossa0000unse/mode/2up> <https://

> > archive.org/details/saragossa0000unse/mode/2up <http://

> archive.org/details/saragossa0000unse/mode/2up>>
> >
> > All the best.
> >
> > -Jon
> >
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[Weijia Cheng]

Ok, noted.

[Jon Azose]

A question for you about semantic annotations:

This book has a lot characters referred to as "Don", as an honorific/title ("Don Roque", "Don José", etc.).

I saw that `semanticate` added some annotation to this book's occurrences of "Mr." -- specifically, it added `<abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">`.

Do "Don" and "Doña" need any sort of similar annotation? Or are they fine to stay unannotated, since "Don" is neither an abbreviation, nor a non-English word according to the test of presence in Merriam-Webster?

Thanks!

-Jon

[Jon Azose]

Another question.

Is there an appropriate inflection to apply to "Ego te absolvo" in the sentence below? It's being used here as the name of a particular blessing, but I don't see anything that quite fits that usage in any of the vocabularies.

```

Then after murmuring the prayer appropriate to the occasion, he blessed me, and pronounced the <i xml:lang="la">Ego te absolvo</i>, and then lay down upon the ground.

```

-Jon

[Vince Rice]

Correct, language is all it needs.

Don doesn’t need anything, either; as you noted, it’s the abbreviation that’s getting a semantic, not the word itself, i.e. we don’t do anything for Mister, etc. 

On May 4, 2026, at 10:49 PM, Jon Azose <jaz...@gmail.com> wrote:

Another question.

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