User talk:Ineuw/Archives/2020-12-31

Congratulations

...on completing yet another volume of Bancroft's massive History of Mexico series. Just two more to go until they're all proofread! I'll keep pitching in from time to time. -Pete (talk) 22:05, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

@Peteforsyth: Thanks. I will keep at it, with some side trips for an odd proofread or two. — Ineuw (talk) 23:51, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Recently a new editor, Ernst76 (talk • contribs) has been pitching in quite a bit on History of Oregon (Bancroft). Still an uphill battle to get all thirty-something volumes done, but nice to have several of these underway at once! -Pete (talk) 00:20, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Wow another 800 page document. Already downloaded from AI History of the Pacific states but must check it first. — Ineuw (talk) 00:22, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Yes, it's amazing the volume that came out of Bancroft's project. This one was written by a different author, but even so. This one goes a little more quickly...not as many accents and Spanish words to deal with (which slow down this mostly-not-a-Spanish-speaker). -Pete (talk) 19:10, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

He had dozens of researchers working for him, nevertheless he a great job. — Ineuw (talk) 20:40, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

P.S: Just noticed that she also wrote the book I downloaded. — Ineuw (talk) 20:48, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

According to what I've read she was the most accomplished historian and author of his researchers, and probably had the strongest claim of authorship, over half dozen or so of the volumes. Which one have you downloaded? There are now three of us working on History of Oregon Vol. 1, and we're about halfway done: Index:History of Oregon volume 1.djvu It would be great if you're able to proofread a few pages too! I work on the Hist. of Mexico pages from time to time, but I'm not very good with Spanish, so it's very slow going, what with the accents and unfamiliar spellings. -Pete (talk) 18:58, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

I use the Google OCR which has some quirks but is excellent for accented characters. It reproduces every accent of the Latin languages, and this saves a lot of time. The labour is the italicizing of the references. — Ineuw (talk) 01:29, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

You mention OCR. In your edit summary you mention OCR. I think the 'correction' thingy is not operating correctly, as in that edit I already see:

"form" -> "formn"

"—" -> "-" many many times

"many" -> "nmany"

"Its introduction in Mexican" disappears

" 41 " -> ' " ' (that is, a footnote number was replaced by a double-quote

and all the footnote numbers are getting smashed

"come" -> "cone"

"pamphlet" -> "painphlet"

"commended" -> "comniended"

"He became an old man in exile. " disappears

and the footnotes themselves are smashed up

Whatever you are doing, stop, revert, and write up the procedure as a warning *not* to trust it! Grossly distorting the text to get a few accented characters is not worth it. How many pages have been smashed like this? Shenme (talk) 03:36, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Oh dear, "flights" to "fliglits"? There's a lot of inspection and cleanup to do for you because of 'ocr'. Shenme (talk) 03:42, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Template:Table_style

Hi Ineuw, I’m back after a bit of a hiatus and am working on a table. I frequently refer to the above page. I noticed you worked on it last year and am hoping you can help me: I see no reference to the font shortcuts. Have these been edited out? I’ve forgotten the italics shortcut. Cheers, Zoeannl (talk) 05:29, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

@Zoeannl: Hi, and welcome back. Gladly help. Nothing was removed, jut added. Are you looking for font-sizes? font-styles? font-family? — Ineuw (talk) 18:31, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

@Zoeannl: Did you find what you needed? — Ineuw (talk) 18:02, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

I was looking for the shortcuts for italics and normal (for when the table is set to italics). I remember sc for small caps but couldn’t see it. So font-styles? Having finally got a new computer, I’m working long hours during the lockdown so my attendance at WS is still occasional atm. Proofreading is a nice break. Cheers, Zoeannl (talk) 04:48, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Everything is there and I am working on an additional table to display all the existing style codes. Some styles have several codes.Ineuw (talk) 08:39, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Could you tell me the italics code and normal code to use for this page, please? Cheers, Zoeannl (talk) 00:07, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

@Zoeannl: Apologies, I left the the descriptions out the last time I worked on the table.— Ineuw (talk) 02:53, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Site style

I don't understand your lack of aligning to site style. We have been recommending against using roman numerals for chapters for years, asking people to align to arabic numerals; we have left old works in place, though still have a plan to migrate them. We similarly have been saying that tables of contents need to be in the root page of the work so that they are able to be print exported. What is wrong with site style, or what is wrong with our instructions? — billinghurst sDrewth 15:32, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Also, please do not link ToC page numbers through to the Page: namespace. If you have to link the numbers, please put them through to the chapters in the main namespace, we don't want people clicking through to that namespace unless they purposefully are wanting to. Left hand marginal numbers are meant to be the links through to the Page: ns. — billinghurst sDrewth 15:40, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Index:A Prisoner of the Khaleefa

Hi, Just gone into Special:LonelyPages and found a large number of pages in the form Page:A Prisoner of the Khalifa.djvu/xx. These got left behind when you moved the File and Index to the correct spelling. What is your intention with the old pages? Can we nuke them? Also, why on earth are you forcing the serif font on the reader? Beeswaxcandle (talk) 06:11, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

@Beeswaxcandle: Please delete them, and thanks for the help.— Ineuw (talk) 07:46, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Came here to point to the same work, which I stumbled across while playing with Inductive's new toy. I proofed the introduction today, but would certainly welcome somebody (say, the original uploader) working back from the end and we meet in the middle :P Peace.salam.shalom (talk) 22:09, 27 November 2020 (UTC)