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Author: Joseph Nudell
Email: jnudell at uchicago dot edu
Date: 2011-12-12 23:48:55
Subject: Re: Wright's Gothic Grammar
Update on the Gothic Grammar:
Since I'm the only one working on the project, I decided I might as well take its reigns. I downloaded all of the PNGs and the OCRed text and started to work with them, both by correcting OCR errors and by converting to XML. I'm taking care of the appropriate XSLT for converting to HTML as well. I also hope to produce a PDF, though I haven't quite figured out whether it'll be easier to do this straight from the XML or from the HTML/CSS (I'd love to hear any wisdom on this).
I will upload all of my work to this address:
callomancy(dot)comli(dot)com/gothgram/
(Sorry about the format, I'm skirting your spam blocker.)
I'll toss up some sort of index page when I get a chance tonight or tomorrow. I'll make the source XML document available for download there and I'll also be sure to link to your website.
While I can't guarantee consistency, I'll do my best to update the website every week or so.
You are, of course, invited to take my work and make it available on your website. I expect to be finished with it in a few months. I'll be sure to update you when I am.
Note that I'm trying, for fun, to recreate the look of the original book on my site. If you decide you want to transfer my work to your website but don't like this style, I'd be happy to help write a stylesheet more to your liking, or to write some XSLT to output HTML conforming to the other projects on your site. (One significant incompatibility is my tableless design vs. your tabled.) Obviously you can do this yourself, but I don't know how much time you're able to invest in it.
Questions? Comments? Concerns? Let me know.
Joe