What text should we start with?

[JonathanReeve]

Just with a quick Google search, I found a few resources:

• A list of editions
• A list of corrections
• This article describes the beginnings of a TEI XML edition

Electronic editions:

• The Adelaide edition
• Finwake.com. "All contents that were for free will stay for free."
• The Trent Edition, also discussed here.

If no public-domain corrected text exists, we might be able to make one by applying the tables of corrections above to the best possible public-domain edition we can find.

A TEI edition would be best to start with, of course. We should just ask some Wake experts if they know of a good public-domain electronic edition.

Facsimile editions:

• This copy on the Internet Archive
• Another copy on the Internet Archive

[crazymontecristo]

The best version on the internet is Rose and O'Hanlon's 2010 corrected text (http://www.jjda.ie/main/JJDA/JJDAhome.htm). But I wouldn't be alone in highlighting its idiosyncrasy when it comes to the editorial decisions behind the edition. In quest of the best edition, you may also find Tim Conley's article useful (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/707935).

[marshb1]

finnegansweb.com has a .tar file with a complete txt file. it is the uncorrected file. i have been working with it for a personal project and am about to start editing to incorporate the corrections listed at http://www.fweet.org/pages/fw_typo.php

[JonathanReeve]

@marshb1, that's great! I was considering doing that, myself. I was imagining that it could be done automatically, mostly, by writing a little script to find an replace each item in the table. Would you share the text here, via pull request, once you've corrected it? (Or while you're correcting it?)

[JonathanReeve]

I've just uploaded an edition contributed by Wim van Mierlo, originally found here at mobileread, which was adapted from the 1975 Faber edition, found here. I've added both the original PDF version, and a converted .docx version. The .docx, at least, I can convert to TEI using Pandoc.

The biggest problem with this edition, as I see it, is with end-of-line hyphenation. There's no sense in maintaining this hyphenation in the XML, and it might be difficult to disambiguate typographic hyphenation from semantic. Although Joyce is known for using compound words instead of hyphenated ones...

One solution to this is to find a few editions and run a diff on them.

We could also table this problem and just go with the best single version we have.

[JonathanReeve]

Although I just remembered this edition, here on GitHub already. It'd be worth checking this with the Fweet list of corrections, to see if it implements them. If so, that might be the best one to start with. If not, maybe there would be a way to automatically apply the corrections.

[JonathanReeve]

That edition is uncorrected, but it might be easier to correct it using the list of corrections from Fweet than it would be to effect the other changes it makes. I'll look into diffing these editions.