User talk:Fibonax99

Beeswaxcandle (talk) 08:11, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Some notes about poetry at Wikisource
Hi, I regularly look through the work of new contributors here, to see if there's suggestions that could be made. For the pages in Index:Bonny Jean (1).pdf, there's a couple of things to tweak.
 * 1) Page header content such as page numbers is put in the smaller box above the long box where the text goes;
 * 2) Poetry needs to be laid out so that the line breaks are not swallowed by the page renderer. The simplest way of doing this is to wrap the text on each page in poem tags ( ... ). That way the line breaks are preserved.
 * 3) We also try to preserve the author's indents. The way to do that is to drop a gap template at the beginning of each indented line. More complex patterns of indentation than this poem need other tweaks, but we don't need to worry about that here.
 * 4) As a part of our Manual of Style, it has been decided that spaces in front of punctuation are not to be preserved.

I know you haven't had a go at a title page yet, but here's a couple of notes that I've been giving your colleagues:
 * 1) For title pages, we try to reproduce the general layout using combinations of templates, such as center and right.
 * 2) When an illustration is on a page, but a high-def version is not available, we insert missing image at the appropriate place and mark the page as "Problematic" (blue button). This adds the page to a list of pages that require the attention of someone with the appropriate skills.

I've adjusted the first couple of pages of Bonnie Jean, so that you can see what I'm talking about.

I know I can be overly brief in some of my explanations, so if there's anything you need more clarity on, please ask on this page. I'll see your question and will come back to you (knowing that my time zone is UTC+12). Beeswaxcandle (talk) 08:11, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello Beeswaxcandle. Thanks for your comments. I was given a set of style instructions by the National Library of Scotland, and they weren't precisely compatible. I've kept the "extra" spaces ahead of the punctuation marks for now, but tried to follow your advice for the rest. My pages will be read (and validated) by a colleague from the NLS. I hope we adopt the agreed layout, because adding a load of stuff and validating it when it's really not up to scratch is only going to cause problems. Fibonax99 (talk) 09:06, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

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