Closed LucasHorseshoeBend closed 7 years ago
I have added yet another facet "Status" with values "final" and "not final" based on the file name suffix. I'm running the conversion now as I head off to bed and will check it in the morning, but assuming I didn't make a typo you should be able to filter documents by their status (and combine that selection with the other facets of course)
I will need to create a step that assigns styles by looking for paragraphs that have a particular combination of formatting; font family, weight and obliquity, point size, text alignment, indent, etc.
Do this first and then if necessary refine it further to look for patterns in the text itself or in the relative placement of the paragraphs in the text (correspondent
for instance is always near the top, and plant names
apparently always at or near the end).
The final facet works a treat, and the number of positives is about what I would expect it to be, given that as of today we had 4,893 so named, and you are working on an edition a few weeks old. But unfortunately the total of 214 final items with standard is a bit too high for manual edits.
I have done these edits manually in the "final" files, and now know what accounts for the majority of them: our style template did not force the paragraphs following a valediction into the letter style that should have been used for such post-script paragraphs, and it was often overlooked.
The issue can I think be closed
Do you really want this issue to remain open? I can deal with the other cases as we set the files concerned to final.
In your e-mail 13 Dec 14.27 you wrote
It does look like it will be necessary. If that fails can you further segment by selecting the XML files with -final as the suffix of the file name? If there is a smallish number of those, then we can tackle those manually and keep a good watch on the others as we set them at final. There are at least 26 of them at Final, as we have done all up to 1859; Mentions is a mess as yet, with mostly first drafts, so tI suspect that most of the 118 that include standard style will need working in in any case.