[Potential production] Inspector French's Greatest Case by Freeman Wills Crofts
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Robin Whittleton
Nov 11, 2022, 3:59:08 PM11/11/22
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Still ploughing through Beatrix Potter and Poe, but I fancy a simpler production to keep things fun. I’ve had my eye on https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65553 for a while, but no-one has scans of any PD provenance. What does exist though is a scan on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/inspectorfrenchs0000crof/page/n5/mode/1up. This is listed as being a 2016 edition, but specifically the copyright is marked as 1924. Does this count as acceptable Alex?
-Robin
Vince
Nov 11, 2022, 4:58:03 PM11/11/22
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Even if not, we have precedence for producing using a PG transcription without scans, e.g. War and Peace and others. (I’m sure you know that, just in case…)
Alex Cabal
Nov 12, 2022, 1:11:56 PM11/12/22
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Yes, that's fine. We just need the original copyright year somewhere on
the page.
On 11/11/22 2:58 PM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> Still ploughing through Beatrix Potter and Poe, but I fancy a simpler
> production to keep things fun. I’ve had my eye on
> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65553
> <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65553> for a while, but no-one has
> scans of any PD provenance. What does exist though is a scan on
> archive.org <http://archive.org>:
> https://archive.org/details/inspectorfrenchs0000crof/page/n5/mode/1up
> <https://archive.org/details/inspectorfrenchs0000crof/page/n5/mode/1up>.
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the page.
On 11/11/22 2:58 PM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> Still ploughing through Beatrix Potter and Poe, but I fancy a simpler
> production to keep things fun. I’ve had my eye on
> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65553
> <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65553> for a while, but no-one has
> scans of any PD provenance. What does exist though is a scan on
> https://archive.org/details/inspectorfrenchs0000crof/page/n5/mode/1up
> <https://archive.org/details/inspectorfrenchs0000crof/page/n5/mode/1up>.
> This is listed as being a 2016 edition, but specifically the copyright
> is marked as 1924. Does this count as acceptable Alex?
>
> -Robin
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> is marked as 1924. Does this count as acceptable Alex?
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> -Robin
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Robin Whittleton
Nov 14, 2022, 3:25:58 PM11/14/22
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Tried hacking together the first edition cover as an SE cover, but unfortunately the murder is completely obscured. Back to the drawing board 😅
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Alex Cabal
Nov 14, 2022, 3:36:22 PM11/14/22
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I don't think it's TOO bad, actually kind of funny in a way. But I guess
the book isn't a comedy :) I wouldn't be opposed to just using that
On 11/14/22 2:25 PM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> Tried hacking together the first edition cover
> <https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/1a/d6/b30bee46484cb90a34a2e56e5919/l21407-brfln-3.jpg> as an SE cover, but unfortunately the murder is completely obscured. Back to the drawing board 😅
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the book isn't a comedy :) I wouldn't be opposed to just using that
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> Tried hacking together the first edition cover
Robin Whittleton
Nov 14, 2022, 3:40:39 PM11/14/22
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OK! Well, I’m not having any other luck: there’s a paucity of paintings of safes, diamonds, bundles of pound notes, and other things in the first few chapters. So I’ll leave it like this, but if I find any better options later on I’ll revisit it.
-Robin
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-Robin
Alex Cabal
Nov 14, 2022, 3:46:09 PM11/14/22
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Robin Whittleton
Nov 14, 2022, 3:46:56 PM11/14/22
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Yep, found the same info you did.
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Robin Whittleton
Nov 20, 2022, 10:59:10 AM11/20/22
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Right, ready for review: https://github.com/robinwhittleton/freeman-wills-crofts_inspector-frenchs-greatest-case
- Stuck with the artwork as above, nothing better came up.
- Fairly simple production in general, but a handful of semantics, and a bunch of tables in chapter 17.
- Moden Gutenberg, so high quality transcription. Just 3 errors reported back.
- Semanticate will try to add roman semantics to “Mrs. X” which is in a bunch of places throughout the book.
- This is the first in the Inspector French series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_French) so I’ve created a new collection in the metadata.
- Editorial updated funiculaire -> funicular, as it’s effectively soundalike.
Classic Freeman Wills Crofts otherwise, the puzzle is dismantled like clockwork.
-Robin
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Alex Cabal
Nov 20, 2022, 1:01:14 PM11/20/22
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That's a clever use of counter() in the table, but I don't think there's
going to be ereader support for that and we can't decompose it. Can you
just replace those counters with text?
On 11/20/22 9:58 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> Right, ready for review:
> https://github.com/robinwhittleton/freeman-wills-crofts_inspector-frenchs-greatest-case <https://github.com/robinwhittleton/freeman-wills-crofts_inspector-frenchs-greatest-case>
>
> * Stuck with the artwork as above, nothing better came up.
> * Fairly simple production in general, but a handful of semantics, and
> reported back.
> * Semanticate will try to add roman semantics to “Mrs. X” which is in
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_French
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_French>) so I’ve created a
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going to be ereader support for that and we can't decompose it. Can you
just replace those counters with text?
On 11/20/22 9:58 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> Right, ready for review:
>
> * Stuck with the artwork as above, nothing better came up.
> * Fairly simple production in general, but a handful of semantics, and
> a bunch of tables in chapter 17.
> * Moden Gutenberg, so high quality transcription. Just 3 errors
> reported back.
> * Semanticate will try to add roman semantics to “Mrs. X” which is in
> a bunch of places throughout the book.
> * This is the first in the Inspector French series
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_French
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_French>) so I’ve created a
> new collection in the metadata.
> * Editorial updated funiculaire -> funicular, as it’s effectively
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Alex Cabal
Nov 20, 2022, 1:05:00 PM11/20/22
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Same with `tfoot > tr.first-child td:not(:empty)` etc, I don't think
:not() is going to have good support and we don't decompose it at the
moment either. I think that one can safely be replaced with `tfoot td + td`
On 11/20/22 9:58 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> Right, ready for review:
> https://github.com/robinwhittleton/freeman-wills-crofts_inspector-frenchs-greatest-case <https://github.com/robinwhittleton/freeman-wills-crofts_inspector-frenchs-greatest-case>
>
> * Stuck with the artwork as above, nothing better came up.
> * Fairly simple production in general, but a handful of semantics, and
> reported back.
> * Semanticate will try to add roman semantics to “Mrs. X” which is in
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_French
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_French>) so I’ve created a
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:not() is going to have good support and we don't decompose it at the
moment either. I think that one can safely be replaced with `tfoot td + td`
On 11/20/22 9:58 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> https://github.com/robinwhittleton/freeman-wills-crofts_inspector-frenchs-greatest-case <https://github.com/robinwhittleton/freeman-wills-crofts_inspector-frenchs-greatest-case>
>
> * Stuck with the artwork as above, nothing better came up.
> * Fairly simple production in general, but a handful of semantics, and
> a bunch of tables in chapter 17.
> * Moden Gutenberg, so high quality transcription. Just 3 errors
> reported back.
> * Semanticate will try to add roman semantics to “Mrs. X” which is in
> a bunch of places throughout the book.
> * This is the first in the Inspector French series
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_French
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_French>) so I’ve created a
> new collection in the metadata.
> * Editorial updated funiculaire -> funicular, as it’s effectively
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Robin Whittleton
Nov 20, 2022, 2:20:04 PM11/20/22
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Yep, fair point, had my web hat on, not my epub hat. I’ll fix these. I checked the corpus for other uses of :not:empty) and I’d pulled the same trick in Poe’s short fiction, so I’ll fix it there too.
Having said that, we might as well add support for bare :empty as it’s trivial. Done this in this PR: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/pull/549 .
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Robin Whittleton
Nov 20, 2022, 2:40:17 PM11/20/22
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Ok, fixed both this and Poe.
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Yep, fair point, had my web hat on, not my epub hat. I’ll fix these. I checked the corpus for other uses of :not:empty) and I’d pulled the same trick in Poe’s short fiction, so I’ll fix it there too.
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Alex Cabal
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Great, I've released it. Thanks!
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