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Fancy art book

The fancy art book I mentioned a few times finally came in: Index:Brinkley - The Art of Japan, vol. 1.djvu. The files are on IA (my upload), in high-quality (M)TIFF (~150 MB/image). I missed your Dec. 9 messages about the Grammar above—sorry about that. Your work there was very much appreciated, and it looks excellent. Would you mind creating the images for The Art of Japan? It is a bit much, though, so if you’d like to trade (with me doing some of your proofreading or scanning work), just ask. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 18:05, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

From a quick look, those images are beautiful. I will get started today on them. No trade required. But anything you want to pick at or do, this is what I am up to:

For January, I was cleaning up and out Pan. February will be for Grimm. Index:Little brother & little sister - and other tales (IA littlebrotherlit00grim 1).pdf. I started digging up magazine articles from Feb 1905. That has been kind of fun, picking a date and seeing what was going on.

Looking around like that I found the Railroad Gazette and liked it enough to try to get the February 3 edition done for that day due to its not many pages and it being interesting with the very specific mention of local happenings (ifra-structure and business) also national Railroad Law. So I grabbed and uploaded the rest of the pages Index:Railroad Gazette, Vol. 38, No. 5

But "section" transclusion of/by parts is not working for this png Index and the very few pages in the edition are each three columns of very fine print! Also, very weird is Page:Railroad Gazzette-Vol 38-142-000.png which started life as part of Index:File:Railroad Gazzette-Vol 38-p0104 and is also showing up at the newer index for the issue, making this a small but interesting bundle of issues. Weird issues at that. I would not have thought the pages to be so linked to the document file as it is to the proofread page text.

I am not aiming for Feb. 3rd any longer, but I am picking away at that issue. This "picking" has involved some software being installed, the goal being to eventually move the completed png pages to a pdf or whatever that will work for sectioning.

Okay, many words, sorry -- in the middle and at the end of things, some of which are broken messes. When you plopped Grammar into Main, I thought it was a terse but pleasant answer to all my questions: No; and that I was now done with them. One day, I might go back and change the text colors and some of the images from gray back to its muted color, but not today.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 20:09, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

• I’m glad you like the images. They are all very pretty, but the plates especially struck me with their brilliance. I saw your Pan—great work, as always. The Grimm book seems to have many pages of text alone, but I will hold off on proofreading until you have a style set up—it’s much easier to follow than to go back and fix errors. On that topic, do you want a style set in place for Brinkley’s work? I’ve only gone over two pages of actual text (plus some preliminary pages), so you can hop in to add some styling if you’re interested. For the Railroad Ga(z)zette, I would recommend deleting (asking through sdelete) the original, single-page index; I think that that should fix the problem. The ProofreadPage system (for main transclusion and linking pages and indexes) is set up with the idea in mind that each page corresponds to one index, and one alone; breaking that rule confuses it quite a bit. (As an aside, it might also be the inclusion of “File” in the index name; and you should pick one spelling of “gazette” for all of the pages.) I will start doing some proofreading of the Gazette soon—the generated OCR is fairly usable, and there are many images taking up the pages, so it should not be too troublesome a task. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:34, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

The Grimm might also be the usual translation, the one from the complete works lady. A quick round up of my errors here and the summary is "paste errors", although, that is with selection error being a subset of paste. The two z is from a left sided keyboard bounce this poor device has acquired. The = was from my custom terminal font being too small for this decade on this computer and me being too busy and too not caring to fix. Maybe that Index could be kept as a "so many things wrong with this" example if I get my software working. It seems easy for me to add the style after, I think the sheet is probably less mess also.

This picking whatever from any magazine has been a little like sitting right at the salad bar with a fork and the bottle of favorite dressing....--RaboKarbakian (talk) 21:07, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

• Isn’t it? It’s so nice, to have so many books (and magazines, etc.) at your disposal. The Internet really is amazing. Although, saying that, of course, I have just been through the trouble of scanning a whole bunch of books, but it’s nice that so much is available anyway. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 21:32, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

• Would you mind making the images for Index:The Beating of a Golden Branch.pdf. There is the half-title and a rule on page 1. In addition, the actual title page would be nice to extract to use as a cover in the extracted PDF. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 02:22, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
• Index:Big Sur - Kerouac - 1963.djvu is the same as Index:Big Sur (Kerouac, 1962).djvu, but with a title page. Thanks for “The Beating of a Golden Branch.” What’s the problem with the image formatting here? Is it just that it needs to be right-aligned, instead of left-aligned? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:47, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Hmm, well, thanks for letting me know that the labs DJVU was done. This morning my script was broken for jp2 and I (and not my computer) was the only one who knew where the tessdata was. I think tonight it works, the title page missing was a problem from this AM.

The problem with that page formatting is that I had not saved the image and therefore, I had not uploaded it. I uploaded those images while my djvu script was running, and really really wanted (at that moment) to get the index working and paste my djvu file at scan lab. So, the page formatting is also suffering from a prioritization error. Really great scan, btw. I am not rotating the images very much and often not at all. So, thanks for the good bad news or the bad good news or better, just the news. I am going to fix it, paste it at the lab and then start asking for deletions.

And, btw, I can make DJVU now. DJVU from ia or hathi. Well, 300ppi scans. I am going to have to rewrite it for GIMP for 600ppi scans as ImageMagick can't handle hathi pbm on this computer. Just ask, regardless the size, because that script will be easy to write.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 00:12, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Well, no OCR so no showboating for me. Bleh.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 00:14, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

• It’s nice that you can create DJVU files; I’ll ask you for the second volume of The Art of Japan once I’ve finished scanning it in. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:34, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Eh. Is that upside down --> Page:Brinkley - The Art of Japan, vol. 1.djvu/59? About djvu: I should have the text layer working soon. Wrestling with anything "sed" is never what I expect. This is a very very pretty book! That carp is great. I am sorry it is not a plate. --RaboKarbakian (talk) 17:55, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

• It is a very pretty book, indeed. The second volume, by the way, is on applied art. Yes, you flipped that plate the wrong way. (It seems that this book shares some similarity with Brinkley’s Japan Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, which I may do myself or recommend for the MC.) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 18:04, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

So, the magic lamp turns into a funny hat! Perhaps you could get the not broken Big Sur into MC? I just thought it should be here, and it should, but I got a bunch of stuff to do, so it just seems like a good MC thing, especially for appeal and all that.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 21:58, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

• But now you’ve turned him around! It would be easier to see if his mask wasn’t so obfuscatory. As for MC, I’ll ask; it does seem like a work of some import, and would do well if someone was interested in proofreading it. I might just proofread it myself; the works I have lined up for myself (1, 2, 3, 4, besides one pending at Scan Lab and 5 in the background) I keep putting aside (but I still want to proofread them), so I end up proofreading other side works quite quickly. (I started 1 as a break from fiction, but the formatting for the current article is somewhat painful, so I’ve avoided it. 4 is interesting too, I scanned in it myself, but I just put it aside for a while. Rant rant rant, you get the idea.) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:35, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

(Defensively) That artist draws feet that look like cartoon smoke. So embarrassing! Not always, but often, I use math (width/ppi) to determine the image widths, especially with image rich books like this one. But, still, these images are huge! Is this physical book poster-size? So, that is one layout thing that I would like to do. The other layout thing that I would like to do is to spank the type-setter for just throwing images into the middle of text. So there is that also, which I am not going to reproduce in html, even if I knew how to do this. So, maybe you can transclude it and I can work on it from there, where I can see how things are going. Or let me know what you think could be done and/or done better than it is now. Also, at commons, I made one large logic leap that ended with Giokuden being Murase Yoshinori. Maybe if I had finished the key I would know. And I stopped working on the key due to: moodiness and wanting to know where the links go. So, it is not "done" but it is closer than it was this am.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 17:03, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

• I was going to measure the physical book, but I forgot about it. I still have the second volume to scan through, though, so I’ll get good measurements then. It’s roughly 18″×18″×1½″, if I remember correctly; it is massive. The images-in-the-middle-of-the-text also turns the OCR into two columns, which meant that I had to manually type out every page where that happened. It has now been transcluded, and it doesn’t break MediaWiki, which is nice. I also finished up the key. I was thinking about the plate for the key having each of the signatures as individual images, but that sounds really annoying, so probably not. You can check The Art of Japan/Volume 1 to see how the images interact with each other. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:12, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

It looks pretty good, or pretty and good. My image work has had better edges, but I was careful because you could really see the wood underneath the paint, etc., on some of them. I am blaming the weather here for feeling flighty and insubstantial today. It is clear with no visible clouds or ceiling. We have had about 6 weeks of this gloomy, dark, and solid gray stuff that seemed to hold one down; which sounds bad, but is great for doing annoying things like you suggested for the key plate. I was going to suggest that the book was 16 x 11, but no, bigger! So, weather or not....--RaboKarbakian (talk) 17:24, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

• Yeah, the weather around here has just gotten a lot better; going outside is enjoyable, for a change, although I think there’s to be a cold spell this weekend. But that’s not even my biggest book! I have another book of Japanese pictures which is about 12″×24″; that will be interesting to scan. 18 inches may be a bit much, but I do know that it’s pretty much square. The 150 MB/image is a little tiresome, though. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:47, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

• I finally finished scanning the book, and have now uploaded it to Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/TheArtOfJapanVolTwo! The book actually measures 15″×12½″×1½″—still, quite a sizable item. The second volume (on applied art) only has 41 numbered pages, but has more actual pages because of the number of keys at the end. I will break those up to separate pages, and separate the one from the first volume, as well—but I leave the DJVU and the image extraction to you! I look forward to seeing what you can do! TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:05, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

TE(æ)A,ea. The computer I was using dropped offline, sorry for the delay. I will get to work on Part II! --RaboKarbakian (talk) 18:58, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

• It’s great to see that you’re back! I hope your computer stays online. I look forward to your good work! (In case you don’t have enough to catch up on, I saw this interesting book with some more pictures to extract. Besides that, I probably have a few images scattered about to bother you with—but that’s for later. I’m glad to see you back!) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 21:58, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
  • Also, some bad news, if you hadn’t heard. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:16, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

You know, I had someone more used to "officious" language (try to) read that... so IA has to quit their checkouts? My personal experience with both library and electronic checkouts is that if I really like the book, I buy it. Either tree or e, depending on the purpose. Perhaps the publishers, if they had a questionaire about where the book was first read, might reconsider their stance on this. About the djvu, I got one thing to work out and my script is for hathi pdf (making it work on ia texts was the next thing). It is weird, I felt a little in a rut when the internet ceased here; now, I am trying to get back into the groove. So, rut and groove, the same thing I guess! Frogs and mice sure is pretty!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 22:40, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

• They’ve appealed the ruling, but yes, that means they can’t loan books (using CDL) anymore. The tough question (if they do eventually lose the CDL bid) is how much money they owe—the publishers could ask for ~$540 billion, as it stands. Your argument about liking and purchasing is echoed in IA’s arguments. (In my case, it’s all ILL.) The judge made numerous errors (in my non-bar legal opinion), if you’d like to be so regaled. I found the frogs-and-mice while looking for an old version—The crowne of all Homers workes Batrachomyomachia or the battaile of frogs and mise of 1624. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:23, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

• Could you get the image from here to go here, please? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 03:12, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

TE(æ)A,ea. So, I cropped it as closely as I can. The page needs some black borders on the sides and bottom (4em should be nice) and I am not certain how to add that.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 18:00, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

• |padding=4em should do the trick. Thank you! TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:47, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

• Would you mind creating the missing border from here (and possibly also the one from here), please? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 21:28, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

TE(æ)A,ea.: That title page is very pretty. The border and the P's are in glittery gold and at least some of the other letters are dark red! What about glittery gold drop caps? The other image is stealing my time and enthusiasm. I am going to start over with it and just do some simple for it.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 21:43, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

• Unfortunately, the rest of Pippa Passes isn’t so pretty as the cover page—and I never noticed how nice that was until you showed me. It’s a shame that the other image (my Japan one, right?) is so life-stealing—I just wanted the images to be as nice as possible. (Or do you mean the weird half-title image in Pippa Passes?) I might/should have a few other small images in the near future (esp. from here), in addition to the second volume of that (if you want to try to assemble another file). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:16, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

iff, no no! Not the Japanese book. The other Pippa Passes image. Those childrens poems I am working on; I started to do those at WD years ago. And when it went up as finished, I grabbed the sound files with the intentions of finishing that. It is taking so long due to the lack of wikidata on things. The Japanese book needs me to fix one line on my script; after some time and having the internet disappear, and perhaps thinking that there are some winds of change about, that is delayed until I need the break from the poetry or until the winds actually do change.... One very pesky line! Working on that script for Big Sur, I did not throw this computer....--RaboKarbakian (talk) 22:24, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

• A pretty—and just this month in the public domain—picture book, Index:Millions of Cats (1928).pdf; if you’re interested, I’ve scanned the images in high quality. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:53, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

TE(æ)A,ea. YES! I am interested! Truly, the hairs on the back of my neck have been prickling since seeing it in the 1928 lists.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 16:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

• Here you go: Category:Millions of Cats images. Feel free to mess about with text formatting &c. for the index; I just transcribed the text with minimal formatting. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:09, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

• Could you create the image for Index:Satyagraha in South Africa.pdf (it appears on the cover and title page) from here? The title image from Fifteen Poets of Modern Japan, too, although I don’t have a high-quality scan of that one. Also, I have two books which I have scanned images (but not uploaded them yet), would you be willing to do those? (One of them is Amelia Earhart’s autobiography, The Fun of It, the other is a technical edict, although with some pretty plates.) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:05, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

First, upload the Satyagraha image to commons (which I am doing right after I save this)? Second, sure, just let me know the where when the images are available.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 20:23, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

• Could you create the images from Index:The Richest Man In Babylon (1930).pdf? I am going to upload them under Category:The Richest Man In Babylon (1930) (images) (I won’t create the category). I’m also hoping to scan in a nice art book this week, which might be nice. Also, the Fifteen Poets of Modern Japan image can be found from here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 04:52, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Sure to both. Grabbing the hathi images now. Give me a heads up when the scans are there.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 13:56, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

• RaboKarbakian: Do you mean for The Richest Man In Babylon? If so, they’ve been uploaded. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:00, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

• I’ve finally scanned in the art book: The Surviving Works of Sharaku. The pages with images are scanned in high-quality, while the pages with text are scanned in standard quality. If you could check the files over quickly to tell me if I’m missing any pages, that would be much appreciated. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:39, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Your pages were all present and in order (mine, however were not in a different project). Let me know when you have an Index: for it. I am wondering if IAUpload will take a nice pack of tiffs like that? Also, in the thumbnails, while reviewing page numbers, there seemed to be duplicates of the pictures. Perhaps a real review of them will show differences but I have a habit (due to dedicated ebook readers with limited storage) to not have separate files of duplicates. Perhaps this book is an exception for this habit of mine -- it is your call. And, the Page: header -- I am a little giddy about styling the image bearing page header, might I?--RaboKarbakian (talk) 10:47, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

• I don’t think that there are any duplicates, but some of the images look similar (two copies of the same piece with minor variations, for example). I actually scanned the first page with the header in high quality, in the hopes that you could use it to get the header: go ahead. I just made the request at the Scan Lab for the files to be collated. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:10, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

I am having a difficult time getting to these images. This is the wrong computer for this work. I have it downloaded. I wrote the image pages as I counted, using fwmv2_image viewer. It was easy to do some scrolling to see that very small page number. It would take me twice as long to do each image. This computer makes me sit and wait because it was supposed to be a processing plant. Millions of Cats was a beautiful pawse but the rest are going to be torture. Probably funny and laughable torture, but torture. Also, all of my software used to resize with the image. This software all resizes with largest layer center and not where the image window/view was. I am scrolling a lot more than I need to be and that too is a time grab. Is the software becoming adobe (weird at the layers) or MDI which was what people called the all in one window thing? And that was on the old gimp. The new one is super duper terrible. It has restricted toolbox size. It is stuck. I am on Jakub Steiner's side of whatever line is there.

The other thing: this computer has a file system such that I don't have a way to back up just the files. If any of my dongles fail, and they have been, I will have to write over everything so I need to find storage. "Move my phone off from the 1T" and I don't know how much of the stuff here to keep. This computer (my little brother got me a gadget computer) wants to process things and I am asking it instead to continually update its display and work on a file. It should be for processing books (without the need to display) and maybe run some software as a weather station and ntp server (something like a well-behaved software pet).

So, if excused from getting this done "right away", should I store it or should I store something else (Millions of Cats has been saved, for instance)? It might be interesting to save this image set and grab the thumbnails from the software run here and put them with it. Then get back to it when I get a different computer. Or let it go with the reinstall?

More words when saying no. "Yep, right on it" used to be easier to say. Maybe I should change my wiki name to Gidgit.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 14:54, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

• RaboKarbakian: The file has been created here, and I can create the text as I go along. There’s a lot of text, so you can take your time to create the images, if that’s what you’re looking for. You can also add them within the text as you create the images and I create the pages, if you would like. The only image I would really like rushed is the image that appears in the page header, so I can go ahead and start proofreading the main body of the text. (If you also create a sample for the header, I can copy it over as I proofread.) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:02, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Since less than a third of the pages have the fancy header, I stuck it in the index in header and proceeded to pink all of the pages where it is. Then I encountered KOINYŌBŌ SOMEWAKE TAZUNA here spelled with macrons (I think). I only made one with this "utf-8 guess" at Page:The Surviving Works of Sharaku (1939).djvu/84. I stopped here at my spelling. I wanted to just draw them all and then get it out of the index form, for less deleting of wrong headers, but the probably spelling error is stupid to keep pasting.

My style for {{rh}} didn't work in two ways. I set the rule to be dotted and I made the title vertically centered. It still looks good and maybe my usage gets fixed or the template gets fixed.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 01:14, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

• RaboKarbakian: The header works wonderfully fine. The only change is the title, which I have changed. It is indeed a macron. I’ve followed the “1px dotted” form (except for some early work which can easily be done over), but the rules aren’t actually dotted. When you go over the images for this work, would you mind cleaning that up? Also, on that note, I’ve finished proofreading the text, so you can also set up the styles in terms of transclusion how you’d like. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 21:30, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

• Would you mind creating the images here from here (one image) and here (two images)? Also, how are the images coming along for The Surviving Works of Sharaku? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:43, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

TE(æ)A,ea.: There has been a misunderstanding, I am not going to do the Sharaku images on this computer. I am even better informed now on this than I was when I first had to decline. Not only is this computer just not enough for doing that kind of image work, but the situation in which it is powered up is way too taxing on me physically. There has been "gossip" that the pi5 has a graphics "card" and that there is a near future in which I will have one; but the setup here is not going to cut it. 105 images! I need to practice being more terse while managing the heartbreak of declining image work; I am sorry.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 13:18, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

• Even reading it over again, I still don’t get that from your last essay. Don’t worry about it too much, anyway, I have some more images lined up (a few plates from Eminent Authors of Contemporary Japan, two volumes; and a series of images (all about 5 MB each) from Modern Japanese Stories), although I haven’t uploaded either yet. On that topic, if you’re interested in a little more I happened to pick up the sequel to Peter Pan, which has a few pretty images. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:32, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Yep, I knew when I read this today that the misunderstanding was on me. "Yes" to image work is very easy. And, absolutely yes to Wendy and the 6 orangy images within!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 15:19, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

• Here are some images: Category:Eminent Authors of Contemporary Japan, volume 1. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:12, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

TE(æ)A,ea.: I find myself unable to decide whether to crop the spine from the cover or not. Also, about the cover, pinkish or white (as you had this book in your hands!!). Also, very nice scans, as usual.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 15:08, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

• Rather a faded white than a pinkish-white, I believe. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:50, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

• I’m working on Modern Japanese Novels and the West at the moment; I’ll be through with the text fairly soon, so could you add the images from Category:Modern Japanese Novels and the West (not created), please? Also, as to Color standards and color nomenclature below, would it help to get a scan with a color comparison next to the pages? If there is some way you can conjure up where that would work, I can try to get a copy to scan in next to a sheet of printed paper with the right colors. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:56, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

The images have been downloaded. The thing about the Munsell color system is that it is the first set of colors that was created with mathematics in mind. Well, not the first, but the first that worked. Technology was available soon after to confirm this relationship. Munsell even refused to name the colors since that seemed to muddy the point. So the conversion from the Munsell color space into sRGB (for web viewing, etc.) is very well known. That color problem is a great linear algebra "story problem" (being about something and not just a bunch of numbers in a matrix). SF just needs to find a way to perform some matrix transformations here. It is (in reality) as simple as adapting a couple of python scripts into lua (the python scripts have been written and are online). A long winded way to say that the point is math. But thanks for the thoughtful offer!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 11:52, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

• A few more, from Category:Eminent Authors of Contemporary Japan, volume 2. I’ll be away for about a week, but I might have the time to do some validation of your patents in the meantime. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 21:46, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

• I’m back—and have just done The Discovery of Witches (1647, 1928 ed.) (images from Category:The Discovery of Witches images). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:31, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
• Another one—Index:Our Asian Frontiers of Knowledge.djvu from Category:Our Asian Frontiers of Knowledge images. But I have a more exciting book lined up—Virginia Frances Sterrett’s Arabian Nights (1928), recently in the public domain. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 02:14, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
• As promised: Category:Arabian Nights (Sterrett) images for Index:Arabian Nights (Sterrett).djvu. I’ll only be able to upload about a third of the images now, though, but I will be able to scan the rest within a few days. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:50, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
  • I’ve finished uploading the images. Could you extract the ornament so I can work on proofreading the text? (As usual, the images can come later, so long as they get done at some point.) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:28, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

There is a missing image. Should be File:ArabianNights-p19.tif.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 19:24, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

• RaboKarbakian: I had scanned, I just forgot to upload it. I’ve uploaded it now. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 14:37, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

• There are other images, but for Index:Tangled Hair.djvu do you think the little rule in between sections needs an image? What about the brackets for the page numbers? I’ll upload the few images from this work to-morrow, probably. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:00, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

You mean that little flourish in between some stanzas? It's a little annoying, but sure, why not (other than the "policy" here that recommends transcribing exactly what was printed except for superfluous images and long s). If you decide to keep them in, I would help to paste it. And I've done bracketed page numbers before. I found it visually to be a nice break in the norm, at least for the first 50 pages or so (while transcribing). Also, I think the policy exceptions are from lazy, not good sense; "as printed" should be the default for everything if it is to be a policy. btw, Beautiful scan for Arabian Nights!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 09:28, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

• Here you go: Category:Tangled Hair images. And I’m glad you appreciate the scan, it was a real pain. The spine is (or should be) kept together by some tape, but the tape had mostly (but not completely) separated. So, for each individual page I scanned, I had to hold the book in this really awkward grip to avoid the tape that was dangling everywhere. Luckily it’s not as bad when I’m just going for images, so next time I go in I should be able to scan the remainder. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:08, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
• Before Tangled Hair came Songs of a Cowherd: Category:Songs of a Cowherd images. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:06, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
• And I’ve now also uploaded an image of the title page. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:58, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

TE(æ)A,ea.: Hildegarde Hawthorne has been on my mind. Editor or (maybe and/or) translator? Did she write those re-tales?--RaboKarbakian (talk) 14:11, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

• She should definitely be listed as editor, since she’s credited as such. I think her editorship also covers the rewriting of the tales. I don’t think that she did any translation herself; her stories are likely just distillings from earlier, more formal translations. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:41, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
• Some more images—for Index:Songs for Children Sung in Japan.djvu from this category. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:57, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

★ got 'em!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 21:49, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

OMG! They {the images} are too dark!! Page:Songs for Children Sung in Japan.djvu/39. Also, on this page, I have used a combination of template and stylesheet which is kind of (maybe) the worst of both worlds. It will all look better tomorrow when I make the color different; but, please, any thoughts, requests or requirements. Give them to me!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 20:03, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

• The images are great! The new color works well. The only issue I’ve seen is Songs for Children Sung in Japan/That Town, This Town—it’s fine in Page:, but breaks in transclusion. Thank you for all of the images! I’m amazed at the endnotes—good job on getting the color out from the behind-the-fold part. Other than that one instance, the way you’ve gone about showing the images works great in terms of display. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:45, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

"That Town" seems to be working now. Here is the thought I had when working on the endpapers: Enough is as good as a feast! So, that was a thoughtful scan that worked. Well, except if you look at the image at real size, then "Enough is better than a famine" but spare yourself and don't. The scans were twice as big as necessary and fixing that endpaper is one of the reasons for doing things that way. That's a nice book; for both looking at and reading.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 15:16, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

• RaboKarbakian: Thank you for fixing “That Town, This Town,” it’s working now. As for the full-size image, it looks … impressionistic! That’s a nice word for it, right? The book is really pretty and was a real treat to get. The images are a lot nicer than this other work I’m looking at (although the images in it are interesting), which has a lot of formatting. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 18:57, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Photographs are quite easy (including on the gpu); if you want me to do them, it shouldn't take too long.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 19:13, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

• I’ve uploaded them now to Category:Japanese Peasant Songs images. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:23, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

• Some more images: from Category:Japan (Reischauer) images for Index:Japan (Reischauer).pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:18, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

I just have the last image to do. I have a question about the TOC: since it isn't dotted, can I just make a straight up table out of it? Also, thanks for lonesomest!!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 21:03, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

• RaboKarbakian: Go ahead! I just use the templates with which I am familiar. Thank you for the images and the transclusions! TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:06, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

I put the maps in and I also finished the first chapter. Two reasons I transcluded it. One, because the page breaks are in the style sheet ({{pbr}} would probably make two breaks) and because I wanted to see if spl was working. Since moving into its new name space, it always tacks on an anchor, which is great for images but not for chapters. The offset number is easy to determine. Scan page number minus book page number. Negatives are allowed. The style sheet: once you said to go ahead with it and now I don't even ask. All can be deleted and reverted with no hard feelings though.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 00:09, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

• For the style sheets: I don’t know how they work, but you always use them to make things look nice. Feel free always to add them! The proofreading looks pretty easy, so it should be pretty quick work to get the whole work done. Thank you for your comments about Songs for Children, by the way. I’m both quite busy until December and most of my upcoming work is no-pictures, but I’m hoping that in the near future I can get some more illustrated works. (I found an interesting illustrated children’s book about lead poisoning, but unfortunately it is copyrighted.) But—could you get the images from Index:Freshie (1925).pdf? I got it for Xover, but I only received the scan so I don’t have high-quality scans for the images. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 02:06, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

I've been thinking about the attack on the individual poems. Since it was published in the United States (or a territory) then the individual poems are also without copyright; even those in Japanese. That would be the logic to the legalese? Additionally, thanks for the permission with the style sheet; it adds some futzing with the chapter beginnings so, thanks. Also, the new project: you gotta love that 1925 and pdf color!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 14:11, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Freshie was surprising! I color picked to get that banner under the word FRESHIE black and whoa! pink rather than orange faces, black football instead of red, etc.! I decided from this experience that the ads in the back should be black on white rather than purple on off white. One of the most interesting things I did lately, thanks!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 22:36, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Page:Color standards and color nomenclature (Ridgway, 1912).djvu/61

The dual tile approach was because I was intending we had the 'captured' tiles alongside those made by doing a blend based on his methodology detailed in the book. I wasn't sure what approach you were planning .ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:40, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

ShakespeareFan00: Those plates give the best information for getting to the color as it was in the book that was scanned that I have ever encountered. "Information" being white and black tiles to Level with. So, I was really in to this. There are still problems though, as each tile has a multitude of colors within. If I continue, I will upload the color adjusted tiles I worked with.

The "if I continue" is if you want me to continue or not. And, it is really great (to me) to have the text already proofed but it is also really sad (to me) that the text is already proofed. More sad is that I don't take the advantage given and just read it so that is clearly on me.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 11:21, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Please continue :)

The approach I would have used is to find the sRGB for the intial wavelengths (given) and then using a blend algorithim to generate the intermediates, which in turn would be blended with white black and then grey...

I think I put some values for the RGB values generated by this approach in comments in the relevant tables? but I had not got that far. The reason for wanting 'generated' values alongside 'sampled' values, was to act as a way back into being possibly able to correct in other works based on likely pigment drift :) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:35, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

I found something on MDN - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value/color-mix It should be possible to use Ridgway's methodolgy from 'pure' colors to rebuild the color charts :) ... ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:12, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

ShakespeareFan00: That is pretty interesting, I am going to need some time to think about it more. My initial (and more instinctive than logical) feeling is that there is still the problem of converting to Y′ and once the conversion is completed, there is the whole color with no mixing needed.

Did you know that the X11 Named colors came from scanned paint samples (chips)? What made me think of that was the color-mix ability to make the graduated color sets that are within those Named colors; thinking of a use for that if my instincts are valid. color-mix would be a great way to highlight and shade gui troughs and notches (which seemed to fall out of fashion between 2002 and 2006).

And more of css tricks, I need some place to rant about disappearing/reappearing sliders on editable spaces. I am fighting for the right to put my mouse cursor behind a letter that is in the same "real estate" that the re-appearing slider wants to be. "They" used to do these things to free up "valuable real estate" on the screen, but I dislike the little war I engage while trying to edit and not scroll. This rant doesn't belong here, but I don't know where it does go. Into the wind, I guess as this is a new fad everywhere.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 14:43, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Categorization

Thank you for adding American patents in the public domain. I'd like to inform you that there is a category for American patents at Category:United States patents, in which you should add it to your works to ensure greater accessibility.廣九直通車 (talk) 04:00, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

廣九直通車 I will try to remember but shortly after I started to work here, Billinghurst requested (in office rude) that I stay away from the Cats here. And it was the one thing that Billinghurst asked that was easy to do. The upshot of this is that I have almost 6 years experience in not categorizing here. It shall be a hard habit to break, maybe. Wouldn't it be nice if the header would pull that in from wikidata also?--RaboKarbakian (talk) 14:12, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Sorry to hear about that. From my experience HotCat is a fairly convenient method to work with categorization. I've seen how some Author pages can be automatically categorized (e.g. Author:Nikola Tesla is automatically categorized under Category:Electrical engineers as authors, etc.), but I don't think they're applicable to mainspace texts by now. Please tell me if you have other problems, thanks!廣九直通車 (talk) 03:19, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Proofing 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

Hi RaboKarbakian, you are one of the few editors who have worked on EB1911 in the past that are still active, thanks for your past edits. I was wondering if you'd consider doing more proofing work on EB1911.

I'm working through the EB1911 volumes and I'm currently working through vol. 20. I've found a useful technique to aid proofing by using Earwig's Copyvio Detector and the pages at theodora.com/encyclopedia. As an example, the link below compares a random page in EB1911 vol. 21 against the "Pliocene" article at theodora.com/encyclopedia :

https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikisource&title=Page%3AEB1911+-+Volume+21.djvu%2F880&oldid=&use_engine=0&use_links=0&turnitin=0&action=compare&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheodora.com%2Fencyclopedia%2Fp2%2Fpliocene.html

It picks up several typo errors in the EB1911 page. Further proofing is still needed, of course, but it's a great help to use the generally very good quality text at theodora.com/encyclopedia (although the numbers often have errors).

Any questions? Let me know. Hope you can do some further proofing in EB1911 with the above technique to help, maybe starting from volume 21? regards, DivermanAU (talk) 01:15, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Page:Arabian Nights (Sterrett).djvu/12

Just to inform you that for cases like this, there is {{overfloat image}}; the solution you tried there does not work as the image's white background covers the text. Cheers, — Alien333 ( what I did
why I did it wrong ) 22:22, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Alien333 Weird, it is working here! On my way to fixing it: I am wondering what browser you are using?--RaboKarbakian (talk) 11:31, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Alien333 also, is it working now? I ask because this is the first time I tried something like this in the stylesheet.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 11:35, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Don't know what happened, but now it works. Still, I think {{overfloat image}} would be much less of a headache, but do as you wish. — Alien333 ( what I did
why I did it wrong ) 13:11, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

publishers typos

yeah, well "revenge" was projected to be an attack on commons, where they are ignorant of "queen anne's revenge". however, an evocation of effie (of blessed memory) got me some brownie points at global lock. i tend not to use the "lie" word, having been called that by multiple WMF staffers. i would counsel going along to get along on small sister projects. yrmv. --Slowking4 ‽ digitaleffie's ghost 00:21, 26 October 2024 (UTC)