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StandardEbooks edition of A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
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Issues #1

Open acabal opened 3 years ago

acabal commented 3 years ago
acabal commented 3 years ago
vr8hub commented 3 years ago
vr8hub commented 3 years ago

I never would have looked for this under scansion, btw, because I wouldn't have considered this scansion (it's not verse). If those rules are going to apply for general syllabilization like this, it might be good to mention it somewhere else, also, at least a pointer with a pointer to the scansion section.

acabal commented 3 years ago

Usually stress is over a single vowel in a syllable. You can put it over whatever seems appropriate based on the syllable indicated in the original.

vr8hub commented 3 years ago

Just so you know, there are several display issues with this character.

  1. Books on the Mac does not display the i with this character correctly; it shows a space after the i; see the picture. I do not see this on iPad or iPhone. Unsurprisingly, Safari on the Mac exhibits the same spacing problem, so those using Safari to read from the web site will see the same thing.
  2. On Books on the Mac (and Safari), the i with this symbol shows the symbol on top of the dot, i.e. both are present. (The first picture shows this as well.) On iPad/iPhone, only this mark is present, the dot is not, and at normal reading size, it is practically indistinguishable from the dot.
  3. Books on the Mac (and Safari) does some pretty ugly font substitution, see second picture. Sans-serif, and what looks to be a point(?) size larger.
  4. Books on iPad/iPhone doesn't appear to do font substitution, but the letters with this symbol do appear to be a point(?) smaller than the same character next to them. (I'm assuming Safari on iPhone/iPad would follow this behavior, since I'm guessing they both use the same version of WebKit, but as far as I know, Safari on iOS can't open a file from the filesystem, including iCloud Files.)
  5. On Firefox Mac, there doesn't appear to be font substitution, but the character displays in the far right of the character "box" rather than the middle, see third picture. It makes it hard to tell which of the two character it's between it applies to (this means an i with the character gets the dot and the character, but this time with the character to the right of the dot). Also, if the following character has an ascender, it can almost get lost in it; see picture of the Ah.

I'll push my changes for all of the above issues in a few minutes.

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vr8hub commented 3 years ago

I don't think it makes sense to keep the two horizontal images at full-page, since they take up the same space either way now. I removed full-page from them locally and think it looks good, i.e. they now have text under them but they're the same size. Would you like me to push that change?

acabal commented 3 years ago

Sure, that's fine. Let me think about the Unicode. It may be easy enough to decompose it in some way during build.

vr8hub commented 3 years ago

Done.