Scandinavian-Canadian Studies

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 Vol 19 remains unpublished for a few months.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.