Scandinavian-Canadian Studies

Guðmundsson review marked up. Sent some questions to HT.

Entered proofing corrections for ER review, and marked up RW review.

Bio and keywords added (from HT).

Still waiting for bio for this one, and keywords for both.

That's the Rees review.

Added page references to all vol 19 documents (based on the journal volume, not the book).

This is a long review with a bibliography, so it's not finished yet...

Going over to the bookstore to check the latest proof...

The bookstore is using lighter paper than we're used to, so my calculations for the spine width were off. I'd also omitted one of the editors from the cover, so a rework was necessary anyway. Got that done, and sent off the new PDF of the cover, and a new PDF for the document, incorporating Rudling's last-minute changes.

... at the author's request, approved by JT.

All page numbers entered and proofing attribute removed at JT's request. Vol 19 remains unpublished for a few months.

List of keywords for all articles entered.

More proofing corrections from JT. In the process, found another misplaced footnote tag. Also added superscript handling to XHTML rendering (it was oddly missing).

Received and entered corrections from the author; found many other issues which I corrected and reported to JT. This needs another proofing, I think.

Basically followed these steps as I've done before. This time there are too many reviews to fit on the cover TOC, so I've replaced the list of reviews with a single Reviews entry pointing at the first page of the review section.

Made a start on the cover for Volume 20, but I can't proceed very far until I know what the exact year specification is going to be for the volume.

If you look at Rudling 2, 20, you'll see an author with a pseudonym. In the biblio, the pseudonym is handled like this:

<biblStruct>
                      <monogr>
                        <author><name reg="Gunnarson, Karl: see Schulze, Karl Gunnar">Karl Gunnarson see Schulze, Karl Gunnar</name></author>
                        <title></title>
                        <imprint></imprint>
                      </monogr>
                    </biblStruct>

                  <biblStruct>
                    <monogr>
                      <author><name reg="Schultze, Karl Gunnar (pseud. Karl Gunnarson)">Karl Gunnar Schultze (pseud. Karl Gunnarson)</name></author>
                      <title level="m">På Kanadas prärier</title>
                      <imprint>
                        <pubPlace>Stockholm</pubPlace>
                        <publisher>Folket i Bilds Förlag</publisher>
                        <date value="1939">1939</date>
                      </imprint>
                    </monogr>
                  </biblStruct> 

Tweaks to Lange (which was missing para breaks for some reason) and Rudling arising out of discussions with JT on Friday. Still a couple of questions outstanding. New markup structure for handling pseudonym in biblio will be documented under "Hit by a bus".

Met with JT -- some issues discussed, leaving corrections to be made tomorrow, and a decision re the cover, where there will not be enough space for reviews in the TOC: we will have a single entry for reviews on the cover (but not inside, obviously).

I've created the first version of the book and sent it to JT.

This XQuery outputs the XInclude statements for reviews, ordered by the author of the book being reviewed:

xquery version "1.0";

declare namespace xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
declare option exist:serialize "expand-xincludes=no";

for $d in //TEI.2[descendant::sourceDesc/descendant::biblScope[@type='vol'][contains(., '20')]][descendant::classCode[contains(., 'review')]]
order by $d/teiHeader/fileDesc/titleStmt/title/name/@reg

return 
(
xs:string(concat('<!-- ', $d/@id, ': ', normalize-space($d/teiHeader/fileDesc/titleStmt/title), ' -->')),

  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="{$d/@id}.xml">
   <xi:fallback>{concat('MISSING XINCLUDE CONTENT: ', $d/@id, '.xml')}</xi:fallback>
  </xi:include>
)

In the process, I've modified the XSLT so that it uses the   character when inserting guillemets, as well as for "double" punctuation marks; that results in better-looking output. I haven't done that for the XHTML output though; I'm still using   there, because various reports cast doubt on the reliability of   on various browsers.

With regard to spaces, French punctuation behaves like English, except in the case of the so-called "double" punctuation marks (;:!?). These should be preceded by U+202F, the "narrow no-break space". In the case of the Iglesias text, regular spaces were used, whcih meant that punctuation marks sometimes wrapped to the next line. I've now fixed that, and confirmed that XEP handles it OK.

Lots more to do on the Iglesias, though...

Mussari, Urberg, Rudling, Gudmundsson and Blackwell done (with a few red-circled questions to talk to JT about).

Entered JT's corrections for Stenberg, Higgins, Norrman and Sheffield. One outstanding issue on Stenberg and one on Norrman, waiting for JT to come by. Also looked up Chicago on ellipses, and suggested policy doesn't align with it, so referred back to JT for clarification.

Various edits. New decision to remove punctuation around ellipses still needs to be implemented.

Marked up the review, and sent some queries to JT.

Responses to questions from yesterday prompted another round of edits to existing documents, including the normalization of the use of ellipsis (in vol 20 documents only) to have a space before and a space after.

This has thrown up a possible issue with ellipses and spacing. Waiting for JT's response before possibly working through all current documents to add spaces around ellipses where they're not present.

...from JT.

...from JT.

This short review has now had six sessions of entering corrections, between author's responses and the two editors. :-)

Mainly em dashes.

Entered author's and editor's proofing corrections, and fixed several markup errors. Also noted some ambiguities in corrections; awaiting instructions from JT.

Entered JT's proofing corrections to Lange. Also fixed a couple of issues in Rudling, Helgason and Iglesias that were thrown up by editing Lange.

Entered JT's proofing corrections (some still outstanding, as they were marked with question marks -- sent a list to JT).

Marked up a new review from JT. Bio info still outstanding.

The publisher emailed asking for a separate list of illustrations, so I pulled the relevant pages out of the existing PDF with this:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAVER -dFirstPage=423 -dLastPage=424 -sOutputFile=illustrations_2012-02-14.pdf master_vol_19_expanded_2012-02-07.pdf

Then there was a second message pointing out that we had treated a portrait illustration as landscape, so I switched that, rebuilt the PDF and sent it off.

Worked through the French article fixing some markup issues, and updated the XSLT for XHTML output to produce guillemets for <soCalled> tags; other language-dependent rendering appears to be working. Fixed a couple of other markup issues in other documents.

...for two volume 20 texts.

The List of Illustrations, which comes immediately after the Table of Contents, was formatted using the same page-masters, since they're the same sort of thing, and neither has a page number. This layout allowed the content to make use of the page footer area where the page number appears in regular pages. The publisher says this is OK for the TOC but not for the Illustrations, so I've created a separate page-sequence for the Illustrations which prevents the text from intruding into the page-number area.

It took a while to figure out what was actually being requested. In the case of most of these adjustments, the amount of time required to make the adjustment has been trivial compared with the time required to clarify exactly what adjustment is required.

Post from Friday: moved it to correct blog.

This review should be the last going into volume 20. Meanwhile, RAB has done the initial markup of the French text, and I've made some initial fixes and generated a list of questions for JT about style and policy for all-French texts.

Entered author's proofing corrections, and added a whole slew of markup that had been omitted (quotes were not marked up).

Request from publisher to change font size in part of the document (done), and to change text width (not done, because it contradicts their previous instructions regarding margin width -- still waiting to hear if they've changed their specs, or made a mistake about the text width).

Fixed some markup issues in vol 20 texts, and added more bios and abstracts.

...for some of volume 20 texts. Lots more outstanding.

Most vol 20 articles were missing their front matter. That has been added, with the exception of some abstracts and bio info which is outstanding; wrote to JT to tell him what we still need.

Entered corrections for the Rudling review (rudling_1_20), and made a fix of my own.

Entered corrections to rudling_2_20.xml; some will need to be checked based on the original wp file, which I don't have (JT will send it). Found and fixed a wide range of different markup issues too, and passed some hints on to RAB for future reference.