A new edition of the Map of Early Modern London site, edition 6.5, was published on 15th September 2020. This is the first edition to include a fully-tagged transcription of the 1598 edition of John Stow's A Survey of London.
Many other changes are listed in the Release Notes.
A new edition of the Map of Early Modern London site, edition 6.4, was published on 26th June 2020. This edition is the first completely static edition; previous editions depended on the eXist XML database for search functionality, but this edition uses the Project Endings staticSearch engine, and requires no back-end database of any kind.
Many other new features, new texts, and changes are listed in the Release Notes.
I've done a bunch of work over the last few days debugging and fixing what turned out to be two distinct problems with the Agas JavaScript. One was a simple failure to deal properly with an unexpected return value from a calculation; all I needed to do was put in place a default value. The other was a bit more complicated; it turned out that it was actually caused by the existence of some places which had Agas map locations specified, but which didn't have appropriate subcategories assigned from the mdtEncyclopediaLocations parent category. Attempts to display any of these places on the map (when, for example, you click-dragged a box to highlight all the places, and caught one of these within the box) would generate an error which make the map stop responding. I've fixed the problem data, and added Schematron to prevent it from happening again. 240 minutes.
Wrote XSLT to generate library metadata for PDFs and EPUBs in the form of a spreadsheet; this has triggered some additions and rewrites of content in those files. Still need to add the abstract field once it's in the data. 180 minutes.
The encoding team raised the issue of needing to break various elements around page-breaks so that the fw elements don't inherit styling from their ancestor paragraph (or similar). I've written some usefully-repurposable XSLT in /db/data/utilities/break_elements_at_pbs.xsl, and debugged/tested it with TEH's help, to recursively split elements up through the hierarchy and knit them together with @next and @previous.
This was conceptually quite tricky, although the solution is relatively straightforward once written. Recording details here because one day I'll need to reorganize or restructure a document hierarchy in a similar way, and I don't want to have to reinvent this particular wheel. 120 minutes.
Trying to get validation working on Windows, JT and I have succeeded, but at the cost of breaking the regular diagnostics build on Jenkins. I think there's only one remaining problem to solve, though. 90 minutes.
CSS floats are extensively used in our primary source encoding, and they're now no longer really necessary in many cases (such as forme works). They also cause problems for the PDF generation. I've started a process to remove them, processing away all the right floats used for catchwords. So far the results are pretty good. I'm next going to look at running headers and page numbers. The code was a bit tricky because in some situations I needed to flip the order of forme works, and in others not. 180 minutes.
Worked with TEH a lot today on the FO rendering, and found a workaround for the problem of floats in forme works. I've tested a better encoding method for the situation where catchwords appear on the same line as signatures, using negative margins instead of floats, and it works well, so if JT can't see any reason against it, we'll implement that.
I also changed thousands of list type="bulleted" to list rend="bulleted", to conform with current TEI -- need to look out for fallout from that -- and put the redirects file into the XML processing pipeline so that it's available for building the id listing page, so that people don't accidentally re-use an already-obsolete id.
180 minutes.
The search box in the banner disappears when the page width is too small; I've coded a workaround which makes a new menu item appear to replace it, and I'm now waiting for that to percolate through the build to see if it works OK. 15 minutes.