Scandinavian-Canadian Studies

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.