Contrapunctus-1

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Again, welcome! --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:57, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Thackeray

Before becoming too invested, please note that Commons policy has usually been that the Google notice must be stripped from the front of DjVu scans hosted there. Scans which retain the Google notice tend to be nominated for deletion, even though the Google notice is deemed meaningless.

Since removing the notice page will cause all pages of the work to be renumbered, it is usually less work to strip the notice out before beginning work on a new book. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:57, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Exporting full wikitext

Hullo! I think I missed what you were saying the other day on IRC about exporting a book to wikitext. I'm intrigued: are you exporting to wikitext and then converting to LaTeX or something? What's your workflow? :-) I used to work as a bookbinder, and have always meant to get back to printing Wikisource books. You could stick your scripts on the wikisource Github space if you like. Sam Wilson 23:00, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Hey! :) Yeah, converting to LaTeX was what I thought I'd do, so I -

1. acquired the wikitext using curl and action=raw e.g. curl -s "https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Page:The_Complete_Works_of_William_Makepeace_Thackeray_Vol.20.pdf/[197-204]&action=raw" -o page#1.txt (it takes more time than one would figure it would, though, and it certainly isn't a lot of data to download...)

2. removed the headers with sed -i 's/<noinclude>.*?<\/noinclude>//g' *

3. ran pandoc -s -o output.tex input.txt on one of them as a test.

It's far from satisfactory — for instance, the headings were left unchanged. Does not seem too difficult to make a script to do it, though — which could perhaps also be made to acquire the images. I'll tackle it after I finish my current proofreading project.

As a bonus, this has opened up the possibility of downloading the OCR'd text to proofread offline in Emacs + Zathura (in a tiling WM like StumpWM), which is how I'm proofreading ever since. n_n Contrapunctus-1 (talk) 05:56, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

That sounds really interesting. I was a while ago looking into a similar workflow, but converting to asciidoc for contributing to Gitenberg. You're right, converting stylistic headings into proper semantic headings is tricky, and differs from book to book. I'd love to see an example of the PDF output you're getting — whenever you've finished proofing, of course. :-) Oh, and if you were proofing offline, how would you merge the corrections back into Wikisource? Sam Wilson 07:23, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

For now? Good old copy-paste :D Pages 197 and later in the Thackeray were proofread this way (note the first commit changing the status to "not proofread" and containing unproofread text straight out of the OCR; hopefully this is not a significant pollution of the commit histories...) Contrapunctus-1 (talk) 08:23, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Prout

Hi, if you need assistance with setting the score snippets in Lilypond just drop me a note. I'm doing the 1900 edition of the Grove Dictionary at present, so am "in the flow" of doing scores. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 06:09, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! I'll keep that in mind. :) --Contrapunctus-1 (talk) 06:30, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Curly quotes

Please refer to the Wikisource:Style Guide. We prefer straight quotes. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:29, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

😱 Apologies, I quite forgot. --Contrapunctus-1 (talk) 07:46, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Aligning the numbers

Hi, how about putting another voice in with "spacers" and attach the numbers to the spacers? e.g. s2 s1^\markup \center-align "1" s2 Beeswaxcandle (talk) 08:32, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Hey, Beeswaxcandle! Thanks for the idea, I'll give it a shot! :) Contrapunctus-1 (talk) 10:51, 8 October 2019 (UTC)