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Start building PDF of HW #253

Open JanelleJenstad opened 3 months ago

JanelleJenstad commented 3 months ago

@martindholmes: Please start building the PDF of HW. lemdo/data/texts/HW/main/emdHW_Print

martindholmes commented 3 months ago

Still getting pointer errors trying to build this. The problem is pointers to characters, which we've never had before. We'll need a formal strategy for handling those.

JanelleJenstad commented 3 months ago

@martindholmes: Our ability to point to characters is dependent on a satisfactory resolution to #154, which in turn depends on the remediators doing something.

@LEMDO-PM: Can we look at #154 on Tuesday?

martindholmes commented 3 months ago

I don't think there's any connection with #154 here; the print build combines all relevant files into a single document before doing any building, so the existence or otherwise of a separate file with a character list in it (which IIRC was supposed to be created at build time anyway) shouldn't have any effect on it. The issue of what should happen in the PDF when a pointer points to a character in the list should be solvable anyway. The options are something like:

  1. Retrieve a canonical form of the character's name and substitute it for the pointer.
  2. Do the above, but follow it with a page-reference to where the character appears in the character listing.
  3. Something else?

The example in the 1HW_M annotations looks like this:

Cf. <ptr type="localCit" target="doc:emd1HW_M#emd1HW_M_Doctor"/>

There is no link text or anything else; the target person element in the particDesc includes a lengthy editorial note. It seems to me that the only logical way to process this pointer is (2) above.

JanelleJenstad commented 3 months ago

Let's leave this one until after @martindholmes's vacation.

JackWilton1594 commented 2 months ago

To clarify, I think the editor's intention here is to point to the note on the character. Some of them will be too long for the print, no doubt...

martindholmes commented 1 month ago

@JanelleJenstad @JackWilton1594 We still do not have a working PDF build for HW, but I see that it's supposed to be published relatively soon. That means we have to decide whether it's to be published without an auto-generated character list (maybe with a manually-encoded one like the other PDFs), or whether issue #154 must be dealt with now (which would be a significant job, and that ticket has been stalled for months), or whether we do something else.