[Next Project] That Affair Next Door, by Anna Katharine Green

[David]

With Miss Marple making her PD appearance in 2026/1930 (though she first featured in a short story of 1927), this is a good time to make sure one of her antecedents is in place: Amelia Butterworth. _That Affair Next Door_ is Gryce #8, but "Amelia Butterworth" #1:

PG: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/21617

IA: https://archive.org/details/thataffairnextd02greegoog

Repo*: https://github.com/dajare/anna-katharine-green/that-affair-next-door

* will be populated shortly

There are a few endnotes but thankfully no SVGs required. It's structured in four "books", but chapters are (thankfully) continuously ennumerated.

Hope this looks okay to be getting on with. :)

David / Fife, UK

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Emma will manage this with Lukas reviewing. Note that in our
counting this is Gryce #7 because the one before it is too short for us
to do individually.

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[David]

Thanks for the note on the series number. Also, I provided a bad URL for the repo, so here's the correct (and populated) one:

https://github.com/dajare/anna-katharine-green_that-affair-next-door

D.

[David]

Question for you, Emma. SEMoS is clear on how to manage numbers obscured in dates, but does not otherwise deal with *numbers*, so far as I can see.

In three places in this book, I have an address where the number is "obscured":

1. c9: `— Lexington Avenue.`
2. c21: `— Liberty Street`
3. c22: `— Sixth Avenue` 

I thought to handle these on the analogy of "totally-obscured days of the month" (8.7.7.9.1), that is, just a simple em-dash. But `typogrify` does not like that (well, it doesn't respect it, anyway!). Should I go with 2-em in these cases? Or perhaps "wrap" these obscuring em-dashes with a hair-space, or U+200C zero-width non-joiner?

Thanks!

[David]

And while we're at it :) do we want to reproduce the "card" in c22 with its border to give it a card-like look? In which case how best to limit width?

Thanks again.

[Emma Sweeney]

1. Since it is more than two numbered obscured, I believe that a three-em dash should be used (SEMoS 8.7.7.9.5).

2. Cards have be reproduced in other productions. It looks like you could borrow the card styling from The Crystal Stopper.

Emma

[Alex Cabal]

Two em dash is probably fine. typogrify is not expected to always do the
right thing, so sometimes it's fine to ignore the changes it suggests.

On 8/28/25 7:18 AM, David wrote:
> Question for you, Emma. SEMoS is clear on how to manage numbers obscured

> <https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.4/single-page#8.7.7.9> in dates,

> but does not otherwise deal with *numbers*, so far as I can see.
>
> In three places in this book, I have an address where the number is
> "obscured":
>

> 1. c9 <https://archive.org/details/thataffairnextd02greegoog/page/n92/
> mode/1up?q=%22Jacobs%2C+of%22>: `— Lexington Avenue.`
> 2. c21 <https://archive.org/details/thataffairnextd02greegoog/page/
> n216/mode/1up?q=%22please+address%22>: `— Liberty Street`
> 3. c22 <https://archive.org/details/thataffairnextd02greegoog/page/
> n227/mode/1up?q=%22and+Untrimmed%22>: `— Sixth Avenue`

>
> I thought to handle these on the analogy of "totally-obscured days of
> the month" (8.7.7.9.1), that is, just a simple em-dash. But `typogrify`
> does not like that (well, it doesn't respect it, anyway!). Should I go
> with 2-em in these cases? Or perhaps "wrap" these obscuring em-dashes
> with a hair-space, or U+200C zero-width non-joiner?
>
> Thanks!
>
>

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[Alex Cabal]

Sure. 1px

On 8/28/25 7:23 AM, David wrote:
> And while we're at it :) do we want to reproduce the "card" in c22

> <https://archive.org/details/thataffairnextd02greegoog/page/n227/
> mode/1up?q=%22enclosed+his+card%22> with its border to give it a card-

> like look? In which case how best to limit width?
>

> Screenshot from 2025-08-28 13-22-31.png
>
> Thanks again.
>

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