Ulysses page-by-page: December 2015

[notes for a comparison of levels-of-indenting across editions]

my prediction is that stanzas are indented so that the longest line is centered... so the longer the line the smaller the indent

1922 measured in cm on a 21 cm wide page (at least 15 levels so far-- reduce to maybe 5? or add one 'em' for each step? how many em's in a iphone line? 30?):

Mocker: # 3 = 14%
That can enjoy 3.5
Doomed for a certain time to walk the earth. 3.5
That has been explained, I believe, by jurists. 3.5
You are my looking glass from night to morning. 4
Dearest Papli, # 4 = 19%
Whelps and dams of murderous foes whom none 4
And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils # 4.5 = 21%
'Twas rank and fame that tempted thee, 4.5
While his family weeps and mourns his loss 5
And in the porches of mine ear did pour. 5

And therefore he left out her name # 5.5 = 26%
Dear Henry, # 5.5cm = 26%
The hungry famished gull. 5.5
Waves o'er the waters dull. 5.5
Don Giovanni, thou hast me invited 5.5
O, won’t we have a merry time, 6
My father gave me seeds to sow. 6
. . . . mentreche il vento, come fa, si tace. # 6 = 29%
To the High Sheriff of Dublin, # 6 = 29%
Won’t you come to Sandymount, 6
O, Mairy lost the pin of her drawers. 6
How could you possibly do so? 6
Who fought with heart and hand. 6
Is coming! Is coming!! Is coming!!! 6
While you're coming through the rye. 6
Then he passed the female catheter. 6
Orchestral Satan, weeping many a rood 6
Bound thee forth, my booklet, quick 6

Never missed nor he never will. # 6.5 = 31%
And no more turn aside and brood 6.5
Jubilantium te virginum. 6.5
The rocky road to Dublin. 6.5
Shall weave old England's winding sheet. 6.5
Then here’s a health to Mulligan’s aunt 6.5
Couch a hogshead with me then. 6.5
All dimpled cheeks and curls, 6.5
Co-ome thou dear one 6.5
'Tis time for this poor soul 7
And Ulster will be right. 7
He comes, pale vampire, 7
Don Giovanni, a cenar teco 7

Miss Martha Clifford # 8 = 38%
Dolphin's barn lane # 8 = 38%
Laud we the gods # 8 = 38%
Him Satan fleers, # 8 = 38%
O, O the boys of 8
Heigho! Heigho! 8
Plumtree’s Potted Meat? 8
Comes lo-ve’s old... 8
Là ci darem la mano 8
c/o P. O. # 9 = 43%
Henry Flower, Esq, # 9.5cm out of 21cm = 45%
You mean the will. 10

c/o P. O. Westland Row, # 11cm = 52%
Dublin. # 12 = 57%
Dublin. #12 = 57%
H. Rumbold, #14 = 67%

MARTHA # 14.5cm = 69%
— 7, Hunter Street, # 14.5 = 69%
Liverpool. #15 = 71%
City. # 15cm = 71%
Master Barber. #15 = 71%
(Laughter.) # 15.5
MILLY # 16.5 = 79%
M. # 16.5 = 79%

z5 uses:
p {text-indent: 1em; margin: 0px;}
p.indent {text-indent: 5em;}
p.indent2 {text-indent: 10em;}
p.noind {text-indent: 0px;}
div.addrss {margin-left:10em;}
div.stanza {text-align: left; margin-left: 1em;}
div.center { text-align: center;}
div.stanza p { margin: 0px;}
p.quest {margin: 0px;}
span.floath {margin-left: -1em;}
p.spk {text-align: center;}
p.center {text-align: center;}
p.centerh {text-align: center;)
p.hangind {} #bloom's library p661ff
p.marg2 {} # skip a halfline??
p.right2 {}

p69:
<div class="addrss">
Henry Flower, Esq, # 9.5cm out of 21cm = 45%
c/o P. O. Westland Row, # 11cm = 52%
City. # 15cm = 71%
</div>

p75:
<div class="stanza marg2">
Dear Henry, # 5.5cm = 26%
</div>
MARTHA # 14.5cm = 69%
P. S. Do tell me what kind of perfume does your wife use. I want to know.
He tore the flower gravely [...]

p268:
<div class="addrss">
Miss Martha Clifford # 8 = 38%
c/o P. O. # 9 = 43%
Dolphin's barn lane # 8 = 38%
Dublin. # 12 = 57%
</div>

p64:
<div class="stanza marg2">
Dearest Papli, # 4 = 19%
</div>
Your fond daughter,
MILLY # 16.5 = 79%
P. S. Excuse bad writing, am in a hurry. Byby.
M. # 16.5 = 79%
Fifteen yesterday. [...]

p247:
Bronze by gold, Miss Douce's head by Miss Kennedy's head, over the crossblind of the Ormond bar heard the viceregal hoofs go by, ringing steel.

p291:
<div class="addrss">
— 7, Hunter Street, # 14.5 = 69%
Liverpool. #15 = 71%
</div>
<div class="stanza">
To the High Sheriff of Dublin, # 6 = 29%
Dublin. #12 = 57%
</div>
Honoured sir i beg to offer my services in the abovementioned painful case i hanged Joe Gann in Bootle jail on the 12 of Febuary 1900 and i hanged... — Show us, Joe, says I.
— ... private Arthur Chace for fowl murder of Jessie Tilsit in Pentonville prison and i was assistant when...
— Jesus, says I.
— ... Billington executed the awful murderer Toad Smith...
The citizen made a grab at the letter.
— Hold hard, says Joe, i have a special nack of putting the noose once in he can't get out hoping to be favoured i remain, honoured sir, my terms is five ginnees.
<div class="addrss">
H. Rumbold, #14 = 67%
Master Barber. #15 = 71%
</div>
— And a barbarous bloody barbarian he is too, says the citizen.

p313:
<div class="right3">
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . la tua pace # 6 = 29%
. . . . . . . . . . . che parlar ti piace #
. . . . mentreche il vento, come fa, si tace. #
</div>

p200:
(Laughter.) # 15.5

p195:
To whom thus Eglinton: #
<div class="stanza">
You mean the will. #10
That has been explained, I believe, by jurists. # 3.5
She was entitled to her widow's dower
At common law. His legal knowledge was great
Our judges tell us.
Him Satan fleers, # 8 = 38%
Mocker: # 3 = 14%
And therefore he left out her name # 5.5 = 26%
From the first draft but he did not leave out
The presents for his granddaughter, for his daughters,
For his sister, for his old cronies in Stratford
And in London. And therefore when he was urged,
As I believe, to name her
He left her his
Secondbest
Bed.
</div>
Punkt
<div class="stanza">
Leftherhis
Secondbest
Leftherhis
Bestabed
Secabest
Leftabed.
</div>

p209:
<div class="stanza">
Laud we the gods # 8 = 38%
And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils # 4.5 = 21%
From our bless'd altars.
</div>

p579&c:
<div class="stanza">
— Buffalo Bill shoots to kill, #
Never missed nor he never will. # 6.5 = 31%
</div>

The goal: optimized editions of Ulysses on every ebook platform

The text: start with 1922, fix the typos, avoid controversies by hewing to 1922 (or to current consensus when it's uncontroversial)

The platforms:

HTML plus CSS: using the simplest possible CSS classes, get the basic layout right, so others can tweak it easily; a single file c2Mb, ampersanded special characters
(recent draft: https://sites.google.com/site/ulyssestext/1922r.html )

epub: break out chapters

markdown: asterisks for italics, ledger-table, minimal indents using nbsp?

gitbook: add back br, center, and...?

pdf: two versions, one small, one pretty

kindle: ?

Pagination: not normally visible (too intrusive), maybe hidden 1922 pagination plus Gabler

Annotations: eventually support multiple-file (chapters) with interlinear notes?

Conversions:

gitbook exports simplified epub, pdf, and mobi

Calibre for Windows does conversions from epub

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