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[h1]MY FIRST SUMMER IN[br][br]THE SIERRA[/h1] [h2]THE WRITINGS OF JOHN MUIR[/h2] [h3][b]FROM SKETCHES MADE BY THE AUTHOR IN 1869[/b][/h3] [h4]THE SIERRA CLUB OF CALIFORNIA[/h4]
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[a href="#Page_171"]171[/a]
[span style="margin-left: 1em;"]a nerve-trying experience in, -;[/span] [span style="margin-left: 1em;"]sunrise in, ;[/span] [span style="margin-left: 1em;"]thunder storm, , ;[/span] [span style="margin-left: 1em;"]grandeur, , , .[/span]
[span style="margin-left: 2em;"][i]From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason[/i][/span][br][/div] [span style="margin-left: 2em;"][i]From a photograph by Charles S. Olcott[/i][/span][br][/div]
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[div class="centered"] [table summary="CONTENTS" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="100%"] [tbody][tr] [td align="left"][span class="smcap"]The Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park[/span][/td] [td align="right"][a
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[div class="centered"] [table summary="CONTENTS" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="100%"] [tbody][tr] [td align="left"][span class="smcap"]The Three Brothers, Yosemite National Park[/span][/td] [td align="right"][a href="#photo7"]208[/a][/td][/tr] [/tbody][/table][/div]
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one more review of a book digitized by jim adcock... this one is pg#32540, "my first summer in the sierra", by john muir, thus of interest to a great many people. as in the previous books, we have the standard tags, for paragraphs and breaks, headers and t.o.c. links, formatting of front-matter (e.g., sizing, centering), horizontal rules, and italics within the body-text... we also have those div's with a class of "blockquot", plus other cruft introduced by some tool, i'd guess. other than that, there are a few new additions here... one is that jim marked the p-book page-numbers... he did this in at least one of the previous books, but i forgot to mention it then. in this book, however, he also included the _index_, and did a nice job of linking the index-entry page-numbers to the relevant page... so that's a pleasant advance in this e-book's usability. (one brief historic note: i had to fight like the dickens against people here who _insisted_ that pagenumbers were "unnecessary in an e-book", and must be deleted. i was right, and they were wrong, and i'm so glad that more and more postprocessors are agreeing with me, as time goes on, including ones like jim adcock here.) as you might imagine, the making of those index links entails much markup, so it's a task we wanna automate. jim has indicated that he uses regular expressions a lot, so i'd guess that's how he tackled this job for this book. but he might've used some other tool to do it instead, an app like calibre, for instance, although i don't know which of the available tools can handle this exact task. whatever the case, we'll want our tool to be able to do it. you'll see that jim uses some _table_ markup in here too, for the table of contents and the list of illustrations too... again, there will be some people who call this "tag abuse", and who'll argue that table markup only be used for tables. and they also insist that a table of contents is _not_ a table! isn't that just too rich? i couldn't make this stuff up, folks. but i regularly tell those people to zip it, and i do that here. as long as this markup does what jim wants it to do (and i'll assume it does) across those machines he wants to support, i am fine with it, even if it fails some definition of "purity"... jim also used those .css spans to create custom left-indents, both for poems and index-entries. i still don't prefer it, but it works, and that's the most important consideration of all. oh hey, i see that those div's marked as "poem" and "stanza" are not really poetry, but rather just a transcriber's note, so yeah, i guess that would have to be considered "tag abuse"... they could just be labeled, accurately, as "transcriber-notes". once more, a pretty simple book, all things considered, so i'm starting to wonder why jim has argued in the past that this digitization stuff is really hard for a person to perform. perhaps he is tripping over his own feet... -bowerbird p.s. here are examples of all the types of tags jim used... href="#Frontispiece"][i]Frontispiece[/i][/a][/td][/tr] href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/5/4/32540/32540-h/images/mapl.png"][small]Larger view[/small][/a][/p]
[div class="poem"][div class="stanza"] [span class="i0"]The following changes were made:[br][/span] [span class="i2"]p. [a href="#Page_156"]156[/a] Hoffman and Cathderal
Park to Cathedral[br][/span]
[span class="i2"]p. [a href="#Page_166"]166[/a] only curly currus wisps scarce to cirrus[br][/span] [span class="i2"]p. [a href="#Page_171"]171[/a] most of their acomplishments to accomplishments[br][/span] [span class="i2"]p. [a href="#Page_267"]267[/a] Adenostema fasciculata to Adenostoma[br][/span] [span class="i2"]throughout text: chamœbatia to chamÊbatia[br][/span] [/div][/div]
[div class="poem"][div class="stanza"] [span class="i0"]foothills and foot-hills[br][/span] [span class="i0"]goldenrod and golden-rod[br][/span] [span class="i0"]rootstocks and root-stocks[br][/span] [span class="i0"]thunderstorm and thunder-storm[br][/span] [span class="i0"]gristmill and grist-mill[br][/span] [span class="i0"]lifelong and life-long[br][/span] [span class="i0"]overleaning and over-leaning[br][/span] [span class="i0"]snowstorm and snow-storm[br][/span] [/div][/div]
[h2]CONTENTS[/h2]
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[tbody][tr] [td align="right"]I.[/td] [td align="left"][span class="smcap"]Through the Foothills with a Flock Of Sheep[/span][/td] [td align="right"][a href="#Page_3"]3[/a][/td][/tr]
[tr] [td align="right"]II.[/td] [td align="left"][span class="smcap"]In Camp on the North Fork of the Merced[/span][/td] [td align="right"][a href="#Page_32"]32[/a][/td][/tr]
[tr] [td align="right"]III.[/td] [td align="left"][span class="smcap"]A Bread Famine[/span][/td] [td align="right"][a href="#Page_75"]75[/a][/td][/tr]
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[tr] [td align="right"]XI.[/td] [td align="left"][span class="smcap"]Back To the Lowlands[/span][/td] [td align="right"][a href="#Page_254"]254[/a][/td][/tr]
[tr] [td align="right"][/td] [td align="left"][span class="smcap"]Index[/span][/td] [td align="right"][a href="#Page_267"]265[/a][/td][/tr]
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