Rendering handwritten notes in Thomas + linking to Morgan Facsimile Pages

[ebeshero]

Mary Shelley wrote some handwritten notes in her Thomas copy about how she would revise the novel eventually. Sometimes she wrote comments describing a passage as "bad" or "impossible."

Let's look at the page images from the Morgan Library to see: https://www.themorgan.org/collection/frankenstein/thumbs

[ebeshero]

Related issue: https://github.com/FrankensteinVariorum/fv-postCollation/issues/37

[ebeshero]

@Yuying-Jin

• The note[@resp] elements are only used in Thomas. There are 14 of these.

• 6 notes only appear in the other print editions (1818, 1823, and 1831). These simply come after poems or quotes from other books and reference the author and book. They are also clearly signalled with *. I think we can leave these alone in the way they are rendering.

• The 14 Thomas notes are interesting, and sometimes comment on the passages she wants to revise, describing them as "impossible" or "bad". Those words are not supposed to be read inline as part of the book--but as comments. So we need to make them stand out as different from the rest of the text.

• I think only the 14 Thomas notes need special styling this way!

  all the handwritten notes either by Mary Shelley (when @resp='MWS' or observations by me when

[ebeshero]

We should really link out to the Thomas page images when these 14 notes show up! https://www.themorgan.org/collection/frankenstein/thumbs How should we incorporate the links so we can pull them into the JSON file?

• I think we should encode the URLs in the collation unit files and re-process the collation so they are pulled into the spine.

• Try this coding:

<note resp="#MWS" source="https://www.themorgan.org/collection/frankenstein/20"/>

[ebeshero]

Thinking this through, I think I should add this information in the postCollation pipeline in P6-P2 when the entire reconstructed edition files are available. This way we don't disturb our collation process with it (it's too late to add it there now.)

[ebeshero]

I realized looking at this page: https://www.themorgan.org/collection/frankenstein/16 that we should point to Thomas images whenever we have an <add>, <del>, or <note>. But this is a much bigger task.

[ebeshero]

In Thomas there are:

• 14 <note ana="start"/> elements
• 64 <add ana="start"/> elements
• 55 <del ana="start"/> elements

We would have 133 URLs to look up. We're not really sure how stable the Morgan's URLs for their page images are, but the ability to check the pages would probably be welcome.

[ebeshero]

In case we decide to do this, I finished preparing a standoff list file to help us add URLs with this commit: https://github.com/FrankensteinVariorum/fv-postCollation/commit/7be2ad5be81b4aea49666f3f272cc7a33eab5e83

[ebeshero]

Ultimately we did not record the links in a separate XML file, but scraped them with a JS library for the interface, working with the page numbers available in the file.