[Next project] The Roots of the Mountains, by William Morris

[David]

With my Bagehot almost done, I'd like to start prepping the sequel to Morris's _Wolfings_ = _The Roots of the Mountains_:

- PG: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/6050
- IA: https://archive.org/details/rootsofmountains00morr_0

- Gh: https://github.com/dajare/william-morris_the-roots-of-the-mountains

It's about twice as long as Wolfings, but nothing too remarkable for production that I've spotted (any alerts welcome, though!). No cover just yet, but I have an inkling Caspar David Friedrich might make an appearance, pending PD proofs; suggestions welcome if there's some option I've overlooked.

Hope this looks okay to be getting on with -

David / Fife, UK

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Weijia will manage this with Robin reviewing.

Wikipedia is unclear if this book is an actual sequel or just a
"successor" i.e. another book in a similar groundbreaking style. If it
has actual world/character/plot similarities then we can create a
series, and we'll have to update Wolfings. Otherwise, not.

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[Weijia Cheng]

Ok, noted.

[David]

I thought this was going to be smooth sailing, but a question has cropped up...

There are a *lot* of "songs" in this book, and quite a few of them have "singer" headings, like this:

In the past when I've run into these, I've used CSS something like:

```

[epub|type~="z3998:song"] header p{
font-style: italic;
margin-top: 1em;
text-align: center;
}

```

But with many (ALL, I think) of the songs in this book, that would put the "header" much too far to the right of the poetic lines.

At the moment, I've used `margin-left: 7em;` instead of `text-align: center`, and it's visually acceptable for all the poems, even if a bit of a fudge. (Of course, different font choices and e-readers will make a difference here....)

Is there a better way of (pseudo?-) centering headers over short lines of poetry? I feel like this has cropped up before, but couldn't track it down.

Thanks!

[David]

And another ... arising from `se modernize-spelling`:

(1) There are a whole host of names of the pattern: "Bit-part", e.g.: Bald-face, Bow-may, Day-dawn, Face-of-god, Fork-beard, Gold-mane, Gold-may, Long-coat, Long-hand, Penny-thumb, Red-beard, Red-coat, Red-wolf, Stone-wolf, Stout-heart, Sun-beam, Sun-burst, Sure-foot, and Yellow-hair.

The problem is that four of these (Long-hand, Red-coat, Sun-beam (VERY frequent), and Sun-burst") all get their hyphens removed by mod-spell. My sense is that in these four names—when they occur as names (i.e. "Sun-beam", but not "sunbeam" when it's a ray of shining sun)—should retain their hyphens. Is that right?

(2) Conversely, "Silver-dale" and "Rose-dale" as places both occur frequently, as does "Burgdale" (sans hyphen) very frequently. My sense here is that the hyphens should come out. Again seeking confirmation.

Thanks again.

[Weijia Cheng]

I think that makes sense in both cases.

[David]

Thanks for that, Weijia. I've got a provisional cover proposal. This is Caspar David Friedrich's "Hochgebirge" (I've submitted it to the DB; it will need its PD proof verified):

I think it works pretty well. It was not, however, my first choice, which is why I say "provisional". I had hoped to find PD proof for "Der Watzmann", but a fair bit of searching failed to turn up the necessary. I'll keep looking, though. And it may be that there is some other image which better suits this title. But at least for now, we've got this one as a "banker".

[Weijia Cheng]

Looks good to me!

[David]

But wait! I just found Der Watzmann:

I do think that is preferable (we're *at* the "roots" of the mountains), and I've reassigned in the DB. Sorry for the aggro, Weijia!

[Weijia Cheng]

That one looks good too!