[projectaon] Re: Another Milestone
- From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:53:31 +0100
Hi all
Warning: If you're not interested in the minutiae of tedious editing of the XML
files, then I'd advise you ignore this post and make yourselves a cup of tea.
Right, now there's just me, Jon, and Laurence left (and maybe a few more ;-) )
The major work on consistency fixing the XML files has been completed. Yay! :-)
Simon Osborne wrote:
I am free this week, so I am devoting myself to the XML. I intend to fix
the following issues in all of the books:
(*) Frontmatter / Backmatter - currently only Books 25 and 28 to go.
Completed. This includes making each book's unique RNT part of the Backmatter.
(*) the serial comma - a regular expression search for ", [a-zA-Z]+ and"
has turned out to be very useful, with far fewer false-positives than
just searching for " and "! The serial comma has been implemented now in
all instances in all books except 22, 24, 25, 28.
Completed in four passes:
, [a-zA-Z]+ and
, [a-zA-Z]+ or
, [a-zA-Z]+ [a-zA-Z]+ and
, [a-zA-Z]+ [a-zA-Z]+ or
This clearly hasn't found all instances where the serial comma is needed, but
I'd estimate it has got 90%+ of them. The more words between the comma and "and"
or "or", the more false-positives there are.
(*) <blah>, then -> <blah>, and then (or, <blah>; then depending on
context)
Done! (Except in 01hh)
(*) bow/Bow arrow/Arrow - I really want to see the back of this annoying
issue!
Done!
(*) Illustration placements - small illustrations as per the Errata
lists pending discussion nearer to release.
Done! The only books where the small illustrations haven't all been placed are
02smr, 03toz, and 04cc because I don't know the books that well. I did provide
"template" data for each of the small illustrations, along with a brief
description of the illustration, toward the end of each of those XML files.
(*) Illustration data to use PNG files - Jon, should I go ahead and do
this?
Done! Ye gods, but that was boring!!
(*) Errata Lists - keep these up-to-date with fixes in the frontmatter
sections, serial comma issues, and <blah>, then.
Still to do; will get done today or tomorrow.
(*) <ch.ellips/> - This now no longer requires a space before or after
in the XML as the thinspace is added in conversion/CSS (is this correct?)
Fixed! One of the easiest fixes--a simple find/replace.
(*) Should Giak be in <foreign> tags? Should the Giak's shouted speech
in CAPITALS in Book 1 rather being in <strong>Sentence case</strong>?
Giak is now all in <foreign> tags; I left the CAPITALISED speech as-is.
I have an Open Office spreadsheet to track all these things. The current
version is on my webspace here:
<http://www.projectaon.org/staff/simon/XML_Update.ods> It should be
fairly self-explanatory what the things mean.
Updated.
If anyone can think of any other issues that should be searched for in
all the books, please post them.
A tumbleweed blows through the Project Aon mailing list. Somewhere in the
distance a cock crowed.
Oh, and in case anyone's wondering: No, I don't intend to do all the XML
myself. What I am intending is to get as many irritating, fiddly things
fixed so that others can help with the editing and XMLing more easily.
That's the plan, anyway! :-)
Fiddly, irritating stuff done. If anyone would now like to fix the more obvious
issues still outstanding against Books 21, 22, 24, 25, or 28, please feel free
to do so.
Phew.
--
Simon Osborne
Project Aon
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