Inching forward

It turned out that the pointer tag I learned how to use wasn’t the one I needed to link to my graphic files; once I inserted it all I had was a url listed. I needed to use the figure tag, because the thumbnail is a graphic. Anyway, I got a thumbnail in.

There’s now one full page in TEI, the beginning of my transcription of the City Lights edition of Lunch Poems, at http://www.literaryhistory.com/fo_archive/fod/lp.htm

The xml code can be viewed at http://www.literaryhistory.com/fo_archive/fod/lp.xml

 

I have to figure out now how to make an image clickable, so that it will take the user to the full-page image. I hate the way it looks, it is numbering the figures, which must be instructions supplied in the stylesheet and I won’t be able to fix that until I create my own stylesheet.  I don’t like where it puts the name of the poem, I’d like it to the side of the image. And I’d like a line skipped between the thumbnail and the poem. All that will go in my stylesheet design I think. But at least I have figured out how to insert my images.

There is a lot of tedious technical stuff to figure out still. Like the things I just mentioned. There is the whole problem of the XSLT that I have to learn, but the w3schools should be a good way to get oriented for that. The problem of scanning when I lack equipment and skills. How to put in the navigational (non-graphic) links so you can get from page to page. I don’t know whether to try to work out these technical infrastructure problems some more or to work on coding the poetry. I’d really like to think about coding the poetry. There are quite a few challenges in O’Hara’s poetry, the unusual breaks and white space, the prose poetry sections, questions about how to logically and consistently code the varied kinds of stanzas he uses and couplets and numbered sections. TEI lets me provide at least some information about that kind of thing, I’d like to explore how that works. There are so many things that need to be done on this.