Scandinavian-Canadian Studies

A new issue is emerging with images: where a figure wraps to the next page, a space is left. We may have to carefully manage the insertion of images to place them optimally on the page.

Mainly as part of testing the PDF rendering.

One of the few remaining reasons for working in the XP VM was that I had the old oXygen/XEP system from 2005 set up there for ScanCan rendering. I've finally got around to porting that over to my Jaunty setup. This was the process:

• Copied the whole RenderX folder from Program Files to a shared dir.
• Ran the installer jar file that was in there, which installed for Linux without problems, allowing me to specify the licence.xml file which was in the program folder.
• Copied all the fonts over from the fonts subdir of the original XEP folder to the same folder in the install location.
• Opened the xep.xml configuration file, original and new, and added my customizations, copying them from the original file to the new.
• Set up the appropriate transformations in oXygen.
• Edited the path_config.xsl file to point to the correct location for the images file on my machine (needs to be hard-coded).

Tested and seems to be working (and much faster than on Windows). Haven't yet tested a build of a full volume; I'll do that when we get close to having volume 19 ready.

When vol 18 was swapped to vol 19, some image filenames from one of the documents remained "..._1_18..." as well as the links to them in the text. Fixed those.

Set up the article, entered the abstract (too long), metadata etc; entered biblio as comments, and marked up first item (to make the file valid); renamed image files and put them in the right place; and entered para 1 and first figure. Also added documentation for images to the blog.

The Thorsen article is now marked up, and available on the proofing page. Six of the film articles are now available for proofing. Also, as JT and I discussed, the articles and reviews for volume 18 have now been published on the website, moving them from the proofing area to the main site where everyone can see them.

The bibliography is still to do.

Set up the document, did metadata and abstract, commented biblio items, and marked up the first six pages. Also fixed a couple of errors I noticed in Bunch and Rees, and uploaded the changes.

Still lots of questions outstanding with JT.

...adding to my documentation as I go.