Last three sets of substantial revision to Rees, Bunch and Egholm done. One question outstanding on a passage of Bunch.
November 16, 2010
Adding a missing image into Egholm this morning, I discovered that my image-handling code for PDFs is better than I thought it was: I can place an image inside a paragraph and it works fine (for PDFs at least). This means we really can maximize the use of space by placing images right at page-breaks or similarly appropriate positions, with the proviso that subsequent edits preceding such precisely-placed images will inevitably require re-positioning.
Tested this on the server, and the XHTML works fine too, and is valid -- although of course the line-break won't necessarily be at the end of an actual line.
Also changed the path_config.xsl file to point to the images on Pear rather than in home1t, where the project used to live when it was running on Lettuce.
November 15, 2010
On late duty.
Completed entries now show with a green light, unedited ones with red, and everything else with orange.
Both new RAs are now working on server copies of their files rather than local copies, after sysadmin added their netlinks to the mariage group. It took a while to get them set up to be able to access their files on the server, because on both machines, oXygen was running on the OpenJDK, which seems to provide rather impoverished dialog boxes to oXygen; browsing to a network share was impossible. Eventually by a combination of luck and determination, I got xpr files into the folders on the server, and managed to put links on the desktops to those files.
Both contracts and timesheets have now been submitted. I walked them over this afternoon, and was assured that GB's contract will be processed today so that her timesheet gets done in this cycle.
JT dropped by and we worked through issues raised this morning and made more corrections. I've also now replaced all my original keyword items with his items.
Did a set of corrections based on instructions from JT; some questions still outstanding on these.
November 12, 2010
Attended launch of Ben Isitt's Siberian Expedition book and website. Briefly addressed the audience as part of the presentation. Bout 40 in attendance including 3 descendants of people involved in the expedition.
IN response to Martin's proposed policy for HTML5, read through the W3C documents on it - discovered a couple of little things that I discussed with Martin (self-closing tags, limited named entities) and he modified his proposal as a result.
Did a short presentation on FrancoToile and talked about relative importance of the academic issues of deciding what you care about and what counts as an instance of something you care about as compared to the implementation issues of the mechanics of how you do that.