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1 month ago Alex replied the tables could be rearranged to make them clearer/more compact, so here are my thoughts about the tables.
- [x] Put common text to every entry in the caption, e.g. "Immigrants landed at Castle Garden in 1889". If there's not any, e.g. for the death information, then one isn't needed.
- [x] Put headers on the columns in most (all?) cases. This also eliminates a lot of duplicated words/dittos.
- [x] Where two sets of years are being compared, make a column for each. Where two types of data are being compared across those years, e.g. Number of Deaths and Death rate, make those columns as well. For the latter, that can be one header row with four column headers, or it can be two rows of headers, the first covering each of the two detail rows; i.e. either
Deaths 1880 Deaths 1889 Death rate 1880 Death rate 1889or
Deaths Death Rate 1880 1889 1880 1889
For the population table(s) that contain London, since it is 1881 rather than 1880 like the rest, either make a note on London that it's 1881, or, rather than making 1880 and 1889 the column headers, there could be two separate columns for "Year", with 1880 or 1881 in the first, and 1889 in the second.
javamanatee
[ ] No change needed this time, but the initial "Manual semanticate" commit has at least four different things going on in it: fiction to non-fiction, the titles, the italics, and the name abbreviations. I would suggest for future projects those be four different commits; reviewing a single commit with those quantities of diverse changes in it is difficult.
[x] For mismatched dashes, saloonkeeper is in M-W, albeit in unabridged, so that's we would go with.
[ ] Forgive what is probably an obvious question, but does the text make clear that the picture between the introduction and chapter 1 goes with the introduction rather than chapter 1?
[x] Illustration 3 displays like this, at least in Apple's Books app.
[x] Illustration 5 has the same problem, but not as severe.
[ ] The SVG's are also much darker than the originals, to the point it's hard to tell what the pictures are of. I don't know what's to be done about it (I struggle with SVG's myself), but I'll note it with Alex.
[x] Conversely, the barrel end-of-chapter illustration in chapter 1 displays huge compared to the scans (takes up most of a page).
[x] Speaking of which, those end-of-chapter pictures that aren't in the LOI appear to me to be decorative, and therefore excisable. Is there a reason they were kept?
[x] Table columns that consists of all numbers should be right-justified; see the example in SEMoS 8.19.1.
[x] In the chapter 13 table, I think we want the padding you have on the numeric columns to be on the headers for those columns, as well as the first column on the right-hand side. IOW, just like you moved the right-most column of the left-hand side away from the line, we want to do the same to the left-most column of the right-hand side. And the headers of both columns should get the same padding.
[x] I could be wrong, but I think Alex might expect the SVG in chapter 24 to be edited to change "To-day" to "Today," i.e. remove the dash and move the "day" to the left.
I'm sure you saw the couple of questions I asked Alex about this on list. Depending on his answers, there may be nothing more to do, or there might something. :)