Ben WelshNov 26, 2022

Thanks to a contribution by @k9, our open-source E. E. Cummings database now includes all "Five Americans."

https://cummings.ee/book/is-5/

Here's how you can get involved:

https://github.com/palewire/cummings.ee/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Need a hand getting started? Let me know.

is 5

Published in 1926 by Boni & Liveright, this book entered the public domain in 2022.

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Show threadBen WelshNov 27, 2022

Now that we have a first edition of "is 5" as a reference, I've updated our table of contents to reflect the original publication.

https://github.com/palewire/cummings.ee/pull/159/

It offers the God-mode challenge of writing the custom CSS to properly republish "life hurl my."

Who's up to take it on?

Update 'is 5' table of contents by palewire · Pull Request #159 · palewire/cummings.ee

This change will conform with the original TOC in the first edition.

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Show threadNick Kocharhook 🇺🇦💪🏼

@palewire Hi Ben! The scan of "is 5" on Archive.org has a fair bit of compression artifacts. In this case, for example, is it "O," in the third paragraph? "(),"? Or is it <sub>1</sub>? Any chance of getting scans that are a bit less compressed? ☺️

Also curious about "oDE" at the top of the page, is that actually the first line of the poem?? If not, it will just be left out of the transcription, right?

I bet ol' e.e. would be tickled we're wrapped in knots translating his work into the 21st C!

Nov 30, 2022 at 5:56pmWeb
Show threadNick Kocharhook 🇺🇦💪🏼Dec 6, 2022
@palewire Wanted to make sure these questions didn’t get lost. Do any different editions help with the “oDE” one? Also, I can open a GitHub issue if that’s preferred.
Show threadNick Kocharhook 🇺🇦💪🏼Dec 6, 2022

@palewire oh, I’ve just re-read it, and it now looks to me like this is:

o

O<sub>l</sub>

o

ld

How do we represent <sub> tags in the YAML?