Final proofing tasks for Le blanc 07-26-2011
Posted by lauren on 26 Jul 2011 in Academic
Today is my last day, so I am revising my comprehensive list of issues still needing to be worked out on Le blanc and creating an updated one. There is still a lot of editing to be done on this text, and due to its gargantuan size, the edits may take a while. I'm sad to leave it, though, since it's a great read, and I hope that the next person working on it enjoys it as much as I have.
<titlePage>: I had used a“text-indent: 7em”on “& de quelques Sainctes, qui ont beaucoup” but the margin was very off. On 07-19-2011 I used a"text-indent: -1em"in the same place and it made it too far left. At this point, I tried taking out the"text-indent"altogether and made the"padding-left"a -0.5em instead of 0.5em. This also hasn't worked and it is currently 3:33, so I am handing this task over to mholmes, because lspwong and I have spent a good half-hour trying to fix it. :)- There is also a strange space between two lines of the “Avant-propos” (“Dieu vangeur & ennemi” / “des blasphemes...”, as though I had put two or three line breaks between the two lines of text. lspwong checked my code and we're not sure why this strange line break keeps appearing.
- Chapter headings and section (of chapter) headings:
All<head>tags are automatically left-aligning. lspwong looked at this and seems to think my coding is correct, so we're not sure why they aren't centering.
- i. pgs. 1 to 429: font sizes and font styles (italicized or not) are inconsistent in<head>tags. There is also white space that appears before and after these<head>tags automatically, without me having to put in<lb/>tags. mholmes you'll notice that in instances where the .pdf has no space between a given header and the surrounding paragraphs, I have used a"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"to compensate.
- ii. pgs. 430 to end: font sizes and styles are fine. mholmes you'll notice that I've had to add in<lb/>tags in cases where the .pdf shows white space between the headers and the paragraphs. - Each of the title pages corresponding to the different "livres" (Livre deuxieme, etc.) is also left-aligned, despite being wrapped in a
<head>tag as well. - p. 1: the “1.” should be to the left of the drop-cap “I”, as it is in the .pdf, and in the .xml, the drop-cap is to the left of the page number. This also occurs on pgs. 14 and 23.
- Please refer to my post from 07-04-2011 for outstanding “Table des chapitres” problems for mholmes to look at.
- In the arguments, I have sometimes used a [?] to signal that I was not able to read the text. I was planning on proofing all of my arguments (not just those with the [?]s) by entering the text into sites like Biblos and seeing what I came up with. I will not get a chance to do this before I go.
- References need to be done.
- Right-aligned arguments (appearing in the right margin of the text) were spaced too far away from the text. I tried changing the number of ems to get them to line up closer with the body, just as the left-aligned arguments do. Most of the adjustments look great now, but the ones on the very first few pages of the "Avant-propos" may still need a bit of tweaking.
