Re: Seeking input on "top 100" collection

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Greg Newby <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree that First Folio is problematic.  Otherwise, I don't have a
> basis for a preference.  Actually, I don't even know the was used
> our #100 (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/100/pg100.txt), and would
> be curious to know.
>



> For Shakespeare, like other plays, the main idea is to make it far
> easier to create custom versions for each player/part (plus stage
> direction).  The markup mentioned above would also make it easy to
> have a computer-based "minus one" performance, in which a live human
> performer would read his parts, in the midst of a computer-generated
> play troup.  (This type of thing is already done with MIDI and musical
> scores, for musical performances.)  It would also make it trivial to
> do speaker-based text analysis or other research.
>

Let me talk to the PPers, but I think we can also make something that is
out of the box useful as well... an HTML edition with some light javascript
menu hidden in the corner perhaps that'll toggle a 40% mask over all but
one part or such. Or just highlight the specific part in yellow. :) It gets
slightly tricky in a complete edition (detecting which play you are in and
only displaying the current characters, remembering the last choice, etc.)
Chrome, forex, restricts cookies in local copies of HTML, but it might
allow HTML5 Web storage.. hmm.

Last time I checked, though, javascript support was inconsistent (at best)
to non-existent in the mobile reader space[0]... the only way I could see
to make it work is to color code the parts (for color devices) or
part-specific versions with tweaked formatting (a PITA to keep maintained,
even with scripts).


> More importantly, it would give us a much cleaner complete Shakespeare!


So we want this one kept together and not broken up into individual plays?
Okay. I'm never quite sure how that gets decided.

-Bob
[0] Not to mention the different input methods... a lot of the older e-ink
devices have no touch screen or mouse equivalents, and are strictly menu
based because of the slow refresh.

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