Index talk:The cat. Its natural history, varieties, and management.djvu

Quotes

No convention was given at the start. It settled as 90 straight vs 86 curly. (see WS:").

Maybe straighten all? — Alien  3
3 3 10:50, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

What should be done after all? So far I've seen quotes on pages 55 and 57. — TheBoxThinker (talk) 20:18, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Collaborative works are always done with straight quotes per policy. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 03:51, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

yeah, i've been straightening them during validation, since there was no declaration of style. I assumed default = straight, unless declaration/consensus otherwise. Just Al (talk) 20:51, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Letters on the bottom of certain pages

Should these letters be removed? I imagine so, but it's inconsistent (they do not appear in the transcript of page 1, but do on others). — TheBoxThinker (talk) 21:03, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Yes, these are Binder's marks and are not relevant to our online presentation. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 03:52, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Header p.153+ (feline instinct)

Curious why the headers look off. Was this a style choice?

• set to small-caps (matches original text)
• set to italic (doesn't match original typography)
• typed with all-caps (defeats the style and size ratio of small caps)

Just Al (talk) 19:52, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

(This is all-small-caps, not regular {{sc}}. This means that it also forces all-caps to small-caps size (normally, it should, if it doesn't please say).)

The italic is because for the rest of the book, it was italic, and so I added that to the index CSS. Now we have a choice:

• either we remove it from the index CSS, and then readd italics manually on every page up to the beginning of feline instinct
• or we wrap the middle of the {{rh}} in {{fsn}} on every page past the beginning of feline instinct.

I think the second option would make for less work, and so I'd prefer that.

But then some could say that having a {{fsn}} inside an italic span containing nothing else would be a bit meh.

What do you think of that? — Alien  3
3 3 20:59, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Using small caps means that the source text can be left in human-readble upper/lower cases. I realize that it automagically changes the size. I was just concerned about accuracy if viewed as a manuscript. Sometimes, small-caps are used for a longer line, and using all-caps makes it harder to read. (I used to be a copy-editor and typesetter/layout artist.) Seems like a minor fix, since the header repeats. I'm not married to it. Just bringing up the idea.

Second option, I agree...fixing the later pages manually is fewer edits. Leave the style as it is, and we can pasted a new header into the latter end of the book. Just Al (talk) 21:19, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Would this work?

original:

{{rh||FELINE INSTINCT.|153}}

suggested:

{{rh||{{normal|{{sc|feline instinct.}}}}|153}}

Just Al (talk) 21:27, 6 January 2025 (UTC)