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Caffeinated · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 219 Location: California

This project is now complete! You can visit the catalog page here:

http://librivox.org/poems-of-gerard-manley-hopkins/

Inviting Listeners... If you are interested, please go to the new thread in the Listeners Wanted forum.

A thousand times, Thank You!

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Ed. by Robert Bridges

Text at Bartleby.com: http://www.bartleby.com/122/

(Also, Bibliography can be found here: http://www.bartleby.com/br/122.html)

ID3 Tags:

Title: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Part [#]: Poems [#-#])
Album: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Artist: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Bridges (Editor)
Genre: Speech

File Names:
poems_of_g_m_hopkins_bridges_[##(referring to Part, not the poems];
poems_of_g_m_hopkins_bridges_00;
poems_of_g_m_hopkins_bridges_[number of last part]

Edit me

ceastman · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject:

Hi there! Looks like you need an MC. Smile

I'll be glad to fill that role for you.

You'll need a filename scheme, ID3 tags, and I at any rate would find it useful to have the table of contents up in the first post, along with the progress you're making on them.

Finished files can be yousendit'd to me: ceastmn AT gmail DOT com.

Meanwhile, I've put you on the To Come - Solo Projects page. Smile

Enjoy!

Caffeinated · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 219 Location: California

Hi ceastman Smile

I'll go do that now...

thankyouthankyou!

- Linda

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"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded, dead."

~ Woody Allen

ceastman · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:55 am Post subject:

Looks good.

I have no idea if your filenames are too long or not; if they end up being too long, I'd suggest shortening them from [bla]_gerard_manley_hopkins_bridges to [bla]_hopkins_bridges, as that's rather shorter (and we usually odn't use authors' full names in filenames anyway.

To keep the names even more in tune with each other, I'd like to suggest keeping the preface and notes files in the same format as everything else. The preface can be 00, and the notes, if they come at the end of the work, can be the next number after whatever your last section number ends up being. Or, if you want to put the notes at the front (I haven't looked at the work, so I have no idea where they 'go' in the text), the preface can be 00a and the notes can be 00b. (The validator likes to complain if everything's supposed to be part of a single book and the filenames don't match up with each other.)

-Catharine

Caffeinated · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 219 Location: California

... I'm sure the validator has 'validator' reasons... prolly not just some compulsive need to have everything just so (and if so, my sympathies would lie with the validator, cuz it can be a tough thing to live with... y'know, ultra-perfectionism Smile

I'll change the preface to 00... thaz a good idea... but I think I'll leave the files as they are, unless they really are too long...

Best,

Linda

ceastman · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject:

Okay. I'll find out about the filename length when the great day comes that this goes into the catalog. And if they're too long, I'll just change them at that point.

EDIT: Looks like you've shortened them!

poems_of_g_m_hopkins_hopkins_bridges_[#-#]; poems_of_g_m_hopkins_hopkins_00; poems_of_g_m_hopkins_bridges_76-77

I don't quite follow, I'm afraid: I understand the last arrangement, where hopkins is the author and bridges is the editor, but the first one (where you have the author listed twice) and the middle one (for the preface, where hopkins is the only writer, but I don't see why you're listing him twice) are confusing to me.

Usually, for a single book (even if it's a book where an editor has changed parts but not others) we keep the filenames all the same except for the numbers changing from file to file. I'll go find a veteran MC and see if this is a requirement.

-Catharine

kayray · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject:

Yup, yup, please keep filenames uniform except for chapter numbers. Thanks :)
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Caffeinated · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 219 Location: California

oh... oops... (I wanted to give bridges his due, cuz he's the one who wrote the 'preface to notes'... and 'poems_of_g_m_hopkins' referred to the title, while the second 'hopkins' referred to hopkins being the author (of the poems and the 'author's preface'), so the file name was the title and then the respective author... cuz I wasn't sure if I should just pick one, and if I did, I wasn't sure who... whew! ) ... but I can see, now, how this could be a wee bit confusing... Laughing

how 'bout... 'g_m_hopkins_bridges'

... that way, if somebody else reads a collection of hopkin's poems with another editor, we'll know which is which...

... and why didn't I just do this before?? (um... see above)...

ceastman · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:55 pm Post subject:

I think the format you just suggested (g_m_hopkins_bridges) will do just fine. Smile

Thanks for your readiness to see the difficulties!

-Catharine

Caffeinated · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 219 Location: California

no problem... i've just sent you, btw, the author's preface (... eh, be forewarned, i sound a tad robotic, cuz i got a tad obsessive-compulsive about omitting all the instances where you could hear me inhaling, so it might sound like i'm not breathing at all... that, and b/c i took a lot of breaths, there're are a lot of 'pauses,' which makes it more comprehendible, but like i said, i sound a little bit like a robot...)

the first batch of poems should be finished by this weekend (just ran into 'Deutschland')...

and for your convenience, here's the link to the download page:

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=50DAB69102BDCE7B

best,

Linda

Cloud Mountain · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:12 am Post subject: Congrats

Congratulations Linda!

Good luck with this. If you ever need an occassion nudge or word of encouragement, please call on me.

Also, if you're not sure about things, I'd be happy to read completed work and give any kind of comments you'd need, even just to read to listen to/for simple editing corrections.

The very best of luck!

Go for it, girl! You've come a long way in a short time! Yaheee!

Alan

ceastman · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:00 pm Post subject:

I got your file last night, and took a quick spot-listen - sounds good! Don't worry about it sounding robotic; I don't think it does. (All we care about really is whether it can be understood.)

So... great work, keep going!

-Catharine

Caffeinated · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 219 Location: California

Okay... that's good to hear... I think I'm just being too careful, esp. with my prose... (but I guess it's good then, that most of this is poetry Razz

)

Ah! back to the poetry!

Linda

Caffeinated · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 219 Location: California

Thank you, Alan... that's nice of you to offer... I should pitch in with listening too, but whew! I think that would be too much to handle right now Shocked

Best,

Linda

Caffeinated · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 219 Location: California

Here's the first batch of poems (sorry it took me so long... i think i was overthinking the meter for 'Deutschland', and then I ended up avoiding it Confused

... just needed to relax some)...

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=07353A7D642EECA6

It's only the first four poems, cuz 'Deutschland' was so long; btw, I've decided that the number of poems will be based on how many can fit into a 20-40 minute time-frame, instead of making all the recordings just 10 poems... And the file names will include the number for the Part the poems belong to, rather than the numbers of the poems...

Okay... Back to work!