[First Project] Proposal - Tarzan and the Ant Men, by Edgar Rice Burroughs

[Galen Hazelwood]

Hello, everyone. I've been enjoying the work done by this team, especially the old adventure and science fiction selections, and would like to contribute something in return.

My proposal is to fill in one of the remaining gaps in the Tarzan books, by picking up the tenth in the series, "Tarzan and the Ant Men". This is in the wanted list as a potential first production, and seems reasonably straightforward. The gutenberg transcription looks good, and I found several scanned versions on the Internet Archive.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61837

https://archive.org/details/tarzanantmen00burr

The linked scan is the original 1924 publication by McClurg. The Gutenberg version was clearly derived from a later republication (note the text about "wartime production"), which is also on the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-DVW-720

A cursory examination suggests that the text pages are identical.

I have a good understanding of git and github, a reasonably solid understanding of HTML and XHTML (though less CSS), and have read through the style guide, although I suspect I will be re-reading it several times as I work. I'll also be able to use the other books in the series as references if I have questions.

Thanks!

--Galen

[Alex Cabal]

Great, that one would be a good start.

You can use the cover art here:
https://standardebooks.org/artworks/j-allen-st-john/tarzan-goes-to-battle-with-the-ant-men

But, you will have to use Gimp or Photoshop to remove the title and
author from the cover art. This one might be a little tough, if it's not
coming out well maybe you can ask the mailing list for help.

Otherwise this one is pretty straightforward.

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:

https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-step-by-step

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 mark you as having started.

Have fun! :)

On 1/5/25 11:47 PM, Galen Hazelwood wrote:
> Hello, everyone. I've been enjoying the work done by this team,
> especially the old adventure and science fiction selections, and would
> like to contribute something in return.
>
> My proposal is to fill in one of the remaining gaps in the Tarzan books,
> by picking up the tenth in the series, "Tarzan and the Ant Men". This is
> in the wanted list as a potential first production, and seems reasonably
> straightforward. The gutenberg transcription looks good, and I found
> several scanned versions on the Internet Archive.
>
> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61837

> <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61837>
> https://archive.org/details/tarzanantmen00burr

> <https://archive.org/details/tarzanantmen00burr>
>
> The linked scan is the original 1924 publication by McClurg. The
> Gutenberg version was clearly derived from a later republication (note
> the text about "wartime production"), which is also on the internet archive:
>
> https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-DVW-720
> <https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-DVW-720>
>
> A cursory examination suggests that the text pages are identical.
>
> I have a good understanding of git and github, a reasonably solid
> understanding of HTML and XHTML (though less CSS), and have read through
> the style guide, although I suspect I will be re-reading it several
> times as I work. I'll also be able to use the other books in the series
> as references if I have questions.
>
> Thanks!
> --Galen
>

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[Galen Hazelwood]

I've created the initial commit and pushed it to github. Should be visible here:

https://github.com/galenhz/edgar-rice-burroughs_tarzan-and-the-ant-men

--Galen

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[Alex Cabal]

Great! Vince will manage this with Lukas reviewing.

On 1/6/25 12:07 PM, Galen Hazelwood wrote:
> I've created the initial commit and pushed it to github. Should be
> visible here:
>
> https://github.com/galenhz/edgar-rice-burroughs_tarzan-and-the-ant-men
> <https://github.com/galenhz/edgar-rice-burroughs_tarzan-and-the-ant-men>
>
> --Galen
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM Alex Cabal <al...@standardebooks.org
> <mailto:al...@standardebooks.org>> wrote:
>
> Great, that one would be a good start.
>
> You can use the cover art here:

> https://standardebooks.org/artworks/j-allen-st-john/tarzan-goes-to-battle-with-the-ant-men <https://standardebooks.org/artworks/j-allen-st-john/tarzan-goes-to-battle-with-the-ant-men>

>
> But, you will have to use Gimp or Photoshop to remove the title and
> author from the cover art. This one might be a little tough, if it's
> not
> coming out well maybe you can ask the mailing list for help.
>
> Otherwise this one is pretty straightforward.
>
> 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:
>

> https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-step-by-step <https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-step-by-step>

> <mailto:standardebooks%2Bunsu...@googlegroups.com>
> > <mailto:standardebook...@googlegroups.com
> <mailto:standardebooks%2Bunsu...@googlegroups.com>>.

> > To view this discussion visit
> >

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[Galen Hazelwood]

Work is proceeding well. The only real surprise so far has been a couple of glyphs in chapter 13 which need to be set inline with the text; I installed Inkwell and am surprised how easy it was to come up with reasonable svg versions.

I've reached the point of modernizing spelling and hyphenation, running the replacement commands to remove spaces, and I've found a case which gives me pause. The passage is from chapter 1:

"He had cautioned the girl to silence believing this the surest way to disseminate the word he had wished spread through the village, where, he was positive, it would have come to the ears of some one of the superstitious savages with the means to free him now that the incentive was furnished."

se interactive-replace wants to change that "some one" to "someone". I checked the examples and am not sure where this falls. There's a later "any one of the seven metal discs" where I'm not removing the space, and this seems analogous. I'm curious what others think.

--Galen

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[Vince]

se interactive-replace doesn’t want to change it, it’s merely showing it to you for you to decide whether it should be. That’s why it’s interactive instead of in the modernize-spelling script, for these kinds of instances where it should not be changed. The Step by Step guide shows examples for each replacement of where it should and should not be changed.