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Epub source for the Standard Ebooks edition of The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/adam-smith/the-wealth-of-nations
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minor details with Latin and Greek #6

Closed ousia closed 4 months ago

ousia commented 4 months ago

@acabal,

there are some issues I see before I started reading this book:

  1. Although it is printed that way, colonia is no proper name and it doesn’t make sense to capitalize its first letter.

  2. αποικα should read ἀποικία.

  3. μυστηριω̑δες should read μυστηριῶδες.

  4. In both cases, even if not in the originally printed that way (printers should not be that educated), full diacritical marks must be kept.

  5. All Greek words are in italics, but just because the font they used didn’t have any upright version.

    It makes sense to use italics for foreign expressions in languages sharing the same alphabet.

    With different alphabets, the emphasis is redundant and it is clear to the reader that the new alphabet implies a different language.

Would you want me to send a PR with all four commits?

Many thanks for your excellent work.

ousia commented 4 months ago

BTW, I forgot to see that xml:lang should be grc and not el (that Greek is ancient, not modern).

acabal commented 4 months ago

Sure, you can do a PR for this. However note that our style manual italicizes Greek: https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.0/single-page#8.18.1 so leave the italics please. Thanks!

ousia commented 4 months ago

Which rules do I have to follow for the formatting of the commit messages?

I have started reading a self-made ePub version of the manual and I saw that everything is pretty regulated.

I happilyy contribute all spelling and other errors I may find reading this book, but I cannot spend much time on finding out how to format commit message.

Many thanks for your help.

acabal commented 4 months ago

For the changes specifically listed here, simply preface the commit messages with [Editorial] to indicate you are diverging from the page scans. Each logical group of changes should be in its own commit. Otherwise there are no other rules.

ousia commented 4 months ago

I’m providing the PR in a couple of minutes.

Many thanks for your help.

ousia commented 4 months ago

I try to push the new commits to my repository and I get the following message:

remote: Permission to ousia/adam-smith_the-wealth-of-nations.git denied to ousia.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/ousia/adam-smith_the-wealth-of-nations.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

Of course, authentication is fine (otherwise, wrong authentication would leave another error message).

What beats me is that the owner of a user space is denied access to a repository from their own user space.

acabal commented 4 months ago

Not sure, this is probably an issue with what you're trying to do, or your Github configuration. There are lots of tutorials online for how to create a PR, using Github more generally, etc., so I would consult some of those.

ousia commented 4 months ago

git pull after git clone (but having cloned from this repo and not mine).

I will try to do the same (but cloning from my fork first) and see what happens with Plato.