Continuing with an in-progress markup task for volume 19: I've now finished the body of Christensen, leaving only the (extensive) bibliography.
November 18, 2009
November 9, 2009
A final edit was done to reduce the page count by removing one index item that was orphaned, and then JT and I took the results over to the print shop. Fingers crossed time...
Got the go-ahead from JT, and followed my own instructions to generate the colour separation PDF, except that I had to do it on the Mac because Acrobat is no longer working, and not installable on, my Windows VM (see posts passim). I'll now burn a CD and we'll arrange to walk over to the print shop.
November 6, 2009
Another round of proofing and editing of a couple of the documents. More to come, apparently...
November 3, 2009
After Acrobat failed to install on my Windows VM, I installed it on Arugula, and attempted to massage the two-page extracted TOC into a single page. No joy. You simply don't have enough editing control in Acrobat to do this kind of thing. So then I hatched a cunning plan to write a special TOC output routine in XSLT to generate a shorter version of the TOC just for the cover. However, it turned out (obviously, when you think about it), that the TOC is part of the page numbering; so if you generate the volume with the page refs resulting from the reduced one-page TOC at the beginning, they're different from those in the original volume, so the TOC is wrong.
Finally, I went back to Illustrator, and modified the first extracted page -- Illustrator is happy to let you edit the text -- and built a one-page version in there, then added it into the cover file. Sent a proof copy to JT and HT.
November 2, 2009
Finished the corrections, and started work on the cover, only to discover that Acrobat was broken in my Windows VM. No install disk for CS2 to be found, so started installing CS3 (Illustrator, PhotoShop and Acrobat), but the last of the three failed; made several attempts but could never get it to install. Another wonderful Adobe experience. I guess I'll have to do the extracting of the TOC pages on another computer that has a working Acrobat on it.
A couple of minor questions still outstanding. Had to do some kludges in the biblio, to accommodate author/editor requirements that don't accord with our original rendering rules.
October 28, 2009
A couple of questions are still outstanding on this, sent to JT, but nothing major.
October 27, 2009
The difficulty of handling citations with Blixen/Dinesen/Andrézel and her multiple editions and language versions is still being figured out; I made all other fixes, and sent a PDF to JT for his final annotations. In the meantime, I've done the Durbach corrections.
October 23, 2009
Done updating vol 18 up to the end of Kastbjerg's article. Some questions still outstanding with JT.