Issues

[acabal]

• It looks like most/all <i> elements are missing semantics

  • Note that words used as words get double quotes, not italics https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.0.0/8-typography#8.2.9.1

  • Quotes and also italics is almost never necessary; one or the other is sufficient

• se modernize-spelling makes some changes; some should be accepted but the ones in verse should be rejected

• In general, we can remove the XML comments that are inline with the text. This is what the commit history is for; changes marked [Editorial] allow us to inspect the differences and reasons for the differences. We also have the production-notes element, so inline comments are triply redundant.

• You can add the marc win relator to Brown. If it's been supposed he wrote it, and there's no more evidence he didn't, then it's fine to add it.

• <abbr class="name"> around your initial in the colophon

• In general if <em> is marking up a fragment of a clause, the ending punctuation goes outside of </em>. For example inviting you to partake the perils and glory of your <em>white fellow citizens, I expected much from you;</em> should be inviting you to partake the perils and glory of your <em>white fellow citizens, I expected much from you</em>; This occurs in more than a few places, search with this regex [!;\.,?]</em>

• In the song in chapter 16, <cite> doesn't belong in <header>. Usually there's only one <cite> which is used as the source of the quote. You can just remove <cite> and leave <p>. Note that you have to apply text-align center and small caps to override the default poetry styling text-align.

• Is the preface a letter? If not then it doesn't need the sender or dateline semantics. It doesn't look like a letter to me.

[acabal]

Also please capitalize the half title according to the linter's rules. Then, you can add an se-lint-ignore.xml file for the remaining error which is an exception.

[davgross]

Fixed