Periodicals/Punch
London, weekly, illustrated. Pages per issue variable, gradually increasing over the decades. Wikipedia article
Blanket clearance for pre-1923 issues: 20050323112602various
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Status
Regular Issues
Volume owners names are abbreviated. Some volumes have been scanned by the internet archive: completeness and quality of the images have not yet been checked. Status of each particular issue can be checked here.
Key: EH=EricHutton JI=Jon Ingram, JS=JulietS, LO=logista MF=Malcolm Farmer IA: page images at internet archive
Volume Year Status Who has a copy: 1 1841 All issues posted! 2 1842 Available for scanning LO 3 1842 Available for scanning LO 9 1845 available for scanning JS 10 1846 available for scanning JS 11 1846 available for scanning JS 12 1847 available for scanning LO 13 1847 available for scanning JS, LO 14 1848 available for scanning LO 15 1848 available for scanning LO 16 1849 available for scanning EH 17 1849 available for scanning EH 18 1850 available for scanning JS 19 1850 available for scanning JS 20 1851 available for scanning JS 21 1851 available for scanning JS 22 1852 available for scanning JS 23 1852 page images available IA 25 1853 All issues posted! 26 1854 All issues posted! JI 27 1854 being scanned JI 28 1855 available for scanning JI 29 1855 available for scanning MF, IA 30 1856 available for scanning LO 31 1856 available for scanning LO, IA 32 1857 available for scanning LO 33 1857 available for scanning LO, IA 34 1858 available for scanning EH 35 1858 available for scanning EH 36 1859 available for scanning JS 37 1859 available for scanning JS, IA 38 1860 available for scanning MF 40 1861 available for scanning MF
42 1862 available for scanning MF 43 1862 available for scanning MF 46 1864 available for scanning MF 49 1865 available for scanning MF 50 1866 available for scanning MF 51 1866 available for scanning MF 52 1867 available for scanning MF 53 1867 available for scanning EH, IA 54 1868 available for scanning EH, IA 55 1868 available for scanning EH, IA 56 1869 available for scanning EH, IA 57 1869 available for scanning EH, IA 58 1870 available for scanning EH 59 1870 available for scanning EH 60 1871 available for scanning EH 61 1871 page images available IA 62 1872 scanned, in progress MF, JS, IA 63 1872 available for scanning MF (last issue incomplete), IA 64 1873 page images available IA
66 1874 available for scanning JS 67 1874 available for scanning MF 68 1875 available for scanning MF 69 1875 page images available IA 71 1876 available for scanning JS, IA 72 1877 available for scanning MF, IA 73 1877 available for scanning JS, MF, IA 74 1878 available for scanning MF 76 1879 available for scanning JS 77 1879 page images available IA 78 1880 available for scanning JS 79 1880 available for scanning JS 80 1881 available for scanning EH 81 1881 available for scanning MF 82 1882 available for scanning EH 83 1882 available for scanning MF 84 1883 available for scanning JS, IA 85 1883 available for scanning JS, IA 86 1884 available for scanning JS 87 1884 available for scanning MF 88 1885 available for scanning JS, MF 89 1885 available for scanning JS 90 1886 available for scanning JS 93 1887 in or waiting for post-processing MF 94 1888 available for scanning MF (some individual issues missing), IA 95 1888 available for scanning MF (some individual issues missing), IA 96 1889 page images available IA 97 1889 page images available IA 98 1890 All issues posted! 99 1890 All issues posted! 100 1891 All issues posted! 101 1891 All issues posted! 102 1892 All issues posted! 103 1892 All issues posted! 104 1893 scanned, in progress JS 105 1893 being scanned JS, MF, IA 106 1894 available for scanning JS 107 1894 All issues posted! 108 1895 All issues posted! MF, IA 109 1895 in or waiting for post-processing MF (one issue missing), IA 110 1896 available for scanning JS, IA 111 1896 available for scanning JS, IA 112 1897 available for scanning MF, IA 113 1897 page images available IA 114 1898 available for scanning MF 118 1900 page images available MF (January-March only), IA (full volume) 119 1900 page images available IA 120 1901 available for scanning JI, IA 121 1902 page images available IA 124 1903 page images available IA 125 1903 page images available IA 126 1904 available for scanning JS, MF, IA 127 1904 available for scanning EH, IA 128 1905 page images available IA 129 1905 page images available IA 130 1906 available for scanning EH, IA 131 1906 available for scanning EH, IA 132 1907 available for scanning EH, IA 133 1907 available for scanning EH, JI (JI copy has some missing leaves), IA 134 1908 available for scanning EH, IA 135 1908 available for scanning EH, IA 136 1909 available for scanning EH, MF, IA 137 1909 available for scanning EH, MF, IA 138 1910 available for scanning EH, IA 139 1910 available for scanning EH, IA 140 1911 available for scanning EH, JS, IA 141 1911 available for scanning EH, IA 142 1912 available for scanning MF 143 1912 available for scanning MF 144 1913 available for scanning MF, IA 145 1913 available for scanning MF, IA 146 1914 All issues posted! but Almanack 147 1914 All issues posted! 148 1915 in progress MF, IA 149 1915 available for scanning MF, IA 150 1916 All issues posted! but Almanack 151 1916 available for scanning JI, IA 152 1917 All issues posted! 153 1917 All issues posted! 154 1918 available for scanning JI, IA 155 1918 available for scanning JI, IA 156 1919 All issues posted! 157 1919 available for scanning JI, IA 158 1920 All issues posted! 159 1920 All issues posted! 160 1921 available for scanning JI, MF 161 1921 available for scanning JI 162 1922 available for scanning MF, IA
Almanacks
1882 (MF has original, plus a 1982 reprint) 1886 MF 1887 MF
1890 Posted. PG#45710
1894 MF
1909 MF 1912 1914 in post processing 1916 in post processing 1917 Posted. PG#13954
Miscellaneous special issues
Punch Among the Planets (Christmas 1890) PG #13244
Proofing and Formatting Guidelines
In the following section you can learn about the formatting template of Punch.
- General remarks
- There should be NO Chapter or Section headings denoted by 4 or 2 blank lines. Always put only one blank line, except after the Title;
- Place the Title (see below) at the beginning of the first page only, followed by 4 blank lines;
- All articles should be divided by a <tb> mark. Leave one blank line around the <tb> mark;
- Format thought-breaks within Articles with a short line of asterisks, thus: * * *. This rule generally applies to the Charivaria, however;
- Treat self-standing illustration (within its own frame) as an article, divided from other articles by a <tb> mark. If an illustration corresponds to some article, make a [** note] about it;
- Avoid using bold markup! Format article and image titles as plain text (or italics if comes so);
- Markup of question (?), exlamation (!) etc. marks should match the scan. This is the deviation from the Standard Guidelines.
- Examples
Title
<tb> Thought-break
No. | Image | Remarks |
Correctly Formatted Text | ||
1. | ![]() |
Articles are divided by <tb> marks. Place the <tb> in front of every article or self standing image; also at the beginning of the page.
Note the second line how colon : lies within italics markup to match the scan. Make a note of poetry markup. The lines were broken due to the lack of space. They are properly reconnected. If you inspect the beginning of the third article carefully, you can see that the word In is not in Small-Caps as it is the first word of the paragraph (by Standard Guidelines). Same with the word Ah in the beginning of the poem. |
<tb> "VESTED INTERESTS." <i>Lady in Possession loquitur:</i>-- /* Ah, well! They keeps a rouging up, these papers, or a trying to, But <i>I</i> don't think they'll oust us yet, as hobvious they're a-dying to. Their <sc>Rogeberries</sc>, and their <sc>Haskwidges</sc> and <sc>'Erbert Gladstings</sc> 'urry up, As per wire-pulling horders; and they tries to keep the flurry up, But somehow it's a fizzle, like a fire as keeps on smouldery, And the public, when they'd poke it up, looks chilly and cold-shouldery. */ <tb> <sc>From the Birmingham Festival.</sc>--An eminent musician sends us this note:--Nothing Brummagem about the Birmingham Festival. Dr. <sc>Parry's</sc> oratorio, <i>King Saul</i>, a big success. Of course this subject has been Handel'd before; but the composer of <i>King Saul</i>, <i>Junior</i>, (so to be termed for sake of distinction, and distinction it has certainly attained,) need fear no com-parry-songs. Perhaps another title might be, "<i>Le Roi Saul à la mode de Parry</i>." (<i>Private, to Ed.</i>--Shall be much pleased if you'll admit this as a Parry-graph.) <tb> In the course of conversation, the other evening, Mrs. R. remembered that "The Margarine" is a German title. "Isn't there," she asked, "a Margarine of Hesse?" <tb> <sc>Anti-fatness.</sc>--Excellent receipt for getting thin. Back horses, and you will lose many pounds in no time. (<i>Advice gratis by one who has tried it.</i>) |
Italics
No. | Image | Remarks |
Correctly Formatted Text | ||
1. | ![]() |
Mainly italics markup follow the Standard Guidelines, here we place some exampels to ease the formatting.
Mark the name and the comment separately. Note that the exclamation mark in nice! is within italics to match the scan. (following the Standard Guidelines the punctuation would go outside here as only part of the sentence is in italics). |
<i>Lady Lullington</i> (<i>absently</i>). A back view? How <i>nice!</i> |
Small-Caps
No. | Image | Remarks |
Correctly Formatted Text | ||
1. | ![]() |
There is tons of Small-Caps <sc> markup in Punch. Inspect normal and caps letters carefully.
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<tb> <sc>New Novel by the Author of "The Manxman."</sc>--<i>The Minx-woman.</i> /# [<i>Not yet ready.</i> #/ | ||
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Often the articles start with a Small-Caps word. Following the Standard Guidelines this word does not get the <sc> markup tag. However, if this word is a name or surname, it usualy is in small-caps. One should check the text for that.
But Ah Sid is a name and therefore is in Small-Caps (as you can see also later in the poem). |
<tb> LITTLE AH SID;[**illustration on the previous page] <sc>Or the Chinee Boy and the Japanese Butterfly Bumblebee.</sc> <sc>Air</sc>--"<i>Little Ah Sid.</i>" (<i>With Apologies to Mr. Louis Meyer.</i>) /* Little <sc>Ah Sid</sc> Was a lemon-faced kid, With a visage as old as an ape's; Saffron son-of-a-gun, He was fond of his fun, And much given to frolics and japes. Once in his way, As <sc>Ah Sid</sc> was at play, A big bumblebee flew in the spring. "Jap butterfly!" Cried he, winking his eye; "Me catchee and pull off um wing!" */ | ||
3. | ![]() |
Include the contraction within the tag. |
of which there are few signs. It is surely one of the fallacies of a common philosophy of romance--a fallacy much too crude for Mr. <sc>Cannan's</sc> unusually careful method--that while this, that and the other relation, opening delightfully, becomes sordid or impossible some final | ||
4. | ![]() |
Include the name initials within the tag. |
avoidance of the <i>scène-à-faire</i>. Incidentally also it confirms me in my opinion of <sc>M. Hamilton</sc> as an author of origin-* | ||
5. | ![]() |
Include the name initials and the title within the tag. |
No. 94. By Sir <sc>Thomas Laurence, P.R.A.</sc> "<i>The bells are a ringing for Sarah.</i>" Curtain rises and <sc>Sarah</sc> steps forward to sing. No. 122. By <sc>Jacob Jordaens</sc>. Splendid. "Try our stout, <sc>Jane</sc>!" No. 126. By <sc>J.M.W. Turner, R.A.</sc> "<i>Snowstorm.</i>" Wonderful!! But where was the artist when he took it? |
Blockquote /# #/
Poems
Images
No. | Image | Remarks |
Correctly Formatted Text | ||
1. | ![]() |
Following the Standard Guidelines, the image comes before or after the paragraph. |
the future would be still further abbreviated. Here is a beautiful specimen of blank--or Anthony Hope-less--dialogue:-- THE NELLY NOVELETTES. "!" exclaimed Miss <sc>Nelly Eaton</sc>, suddenly, with her quivering nostril. "?" I asked with my right eyebrow, rousing myself from a fit of abstraction. She pointed at a young man who had just strolled past our seats in the Row without noticing her. He was dressed in the height of fashion, and was accompanied by a lady in very smart attire. "..." explained <sc>Nelly</sc>, with her mouth tightly shut. I looked at her, and gathered by a swift process of intuition that she had <i>made</i> that boy, and taught him to drink and smoke--of course, in moderation; had got his hair cut, and had rescued him from an adventuress. From her he had learnt not to go to Monday Pops, nor to carry things about in brown paper--in fact, he owed everything to her.... And now----! [Illustration: "Taught him to smoke."] "§" I visibly commented, not knowing for the moment how else | ||
2. | ![]() |
This is self standing illustration that has it's own frame.
Note that the title is not bold. Small-caps <sc> markups hold for the whole sentence, but quote marks " are left out of markup. Word Volapuk is in italics. If there would be an article about Volapuk somewhere, you may leave a note about it like: [** a Volapuk article on the previous page] as a help for Post-Processor to move this Illustration there. |
<tb> [Illustration: COMPREHENSIVE. "<sc>What's <i>Volapuk</i>, Doctor Schmitz?</sc>" "<sc>It is ze Unifersal Langvage!</sc>" "<sc>And who Speaks it?</sc>" "<sc>Nopotty!</sc>"] | ||
3. | ![]() |
This illustration covers the whole page.
The caption is in caps letters, not in small-caps <sc>. Note the comment about possible related article/poem. |
<tb> [Illustration: "VESTED INTERESTS." <sc>House of Lords Charwoman.</sc> "WELL! THEM ROGEBERRIES, AND 'ERBERT GLADSTINGS, AND HASKWIDGES, AND THE REST ON 'EM MAY TORK--AND THEY MAY TORK--BUT THEY H'AINT TURNED <i>HUS</i> OUT YET!!"] [**F2:there is a poem on Vested interest on previous page(s)] | ||
4. | ![]() |
Caption lines are often squeezed together to save some space. In this example dialogs of two characters form the last line.
You can split the text into several lines.
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[Illustration: HOW OPINION IS FORMED. <tb> <i>He.</i> "<sc>Have you read that beastly Book <i>The Mauve Peony</i>, by Lady Middlesex?</sc>" <i>She.</i> "<sc>Yes. I rather liked it.</sc>" <i>He.</i> "<sc>So did I.</sc>"] |
Charivaria
Later issues of Punch (early 20th century) began with a page titled Charivaria: this consisted of multiple short notes, each one a humorous comment on some item of news, or a misprinted news story. These were separated by asterisms (a triangle of asterisks); The Proofing rounds should ignore them, concentrating on checking the text. The Formatting round should separate the Charivaria items with a short line of asterisks, thus: * * *
Below is a sample of an actual page from post-processing to show how the Charivaria section should look after the proofing and formatting rounds: (note also, that the Title, volume number and date on this first page of the issue have been left in the text. This can make things easier for the post-processor):
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 152. <sc>June 20, 1917.</sc> CHARIVARIA. A man who purchased sandwiches at a railway restaurant and afterwards threw them into the road was fined five shillings at Grimsby Police Court last week. His explanation--that he did not know they might injure the road--was not accepted by the Court. * * * We cannot help thinking that too much fuss has been made about trying to stop Messrs. <sc>Ramsay Macdonald</sc> and <sc>Jowett</sc> from leaving England. So far as we can gather they did not threaten to return to this country afterwards. * * * A North of England man, obviously wishing to appear unusual, still persists in the stupid story that he did not hear the Messines explosion. * * * We can think of no finer example of the humility of true greatness than <sc>King Constantine's</sc> decision to abdicate. * * * There were forty thousand fewer paupers in 1916 than in 1915, according to figures recently published. The difference is accounted for by the number of revue-writers who have resumed their agricultural occupations. * * * In a small town in Australia, says a news item, over two tons of mice were killed in two days. For some unknown reason, which perhaps the Censor can explain, the name of the cat is withheld. * * * "Eliminate the middleman," demands a contemporary. It might prove a simpler affair, after all, than the present system of suppressing the inner man. * * * Mr. <sc>Ginnell</sc>, M.P., is responsible for the statement that "bringing an action against the police in Ireland is like bringing one against Satan in hell." The chief obstacle in the latter case is of course the total absence of learned counsel in that locality. * * * The <sc>Kaiser</sc>, it appears, has lost no time in commiserating with his troops on their magnificent victory at Messines. * * * The title which Mr. <sc>John Hassall</sc> wrote under one of his sketches suggested the words for a song which has now been written. It is only fair to the artist to say that he was not aware that his quite innocent title would lead to this. * * * The National Service staff at St. Ermin's Hotel, Westminster, has been reduced by half. It is now expected that the unemployed half will volunteer for National Service. * * * Berlin announces that all through-lines in Germany are running. The case of the <sc>Hindenberg</sc> Line seems to be infectious. * * * "No cheese," says <i>The Evening News</i>, "has quite the bite of Cheddar." At the same time, unless it wags its tail to show that it is friendly, we feel that every cheese with a bite like that would be much safer if muzzled. * * * Triplets were born in Manchester last week. The father is going on as well as can be expected. * * * Complaint has been made by a member of the Hounslow Burial Committee of courting couples occupying seats in the cemetery. The killjoy! * * * We can only suppose it was the hot weather that tempted a newsagent correspondent to ask whether Lord <sc>Northcliffe</sc> had gone to America on "sail or return." * * * Mr. <sc>Balfour</sc>, we are told, while staying at Washington, visited eleven public buildings and interviewed nine representative Americans on one day. There is some talk of his being elected an honorary American. * * * We wish to deny the foolish rumour that when he arrived in London from his American tour and was asked if he had had a good voyage, he remarked, "Sure thing, sonny. All the little Mister Congressmen gathered around, and it suited your Uncle Dudley very nicely and some more. Yep!" * * * An old lady was recently fined two pounds for putting out crumbs for birds. Had the bread-crumbs been put outside, instead of inside, the birds, no offence, it seems, would have been committed. * * * Newspapers in Germany may now be sold only to subscribers for one month or more. A similar measure for England is opposed on the ground that it would be most inadvisable to check the practice at present in vogue among patriotic supporters of the Coalition Government of buying <i>The Morning Post</i> and <i>The Daily News</i> on alternate days. * * * Bobbing for eels is being pursued with much enthusiasm on the Norfolk Broads. Two-bobbing for haddocks in Kensington is sport enough for most of us. * * * Large numbers of the German prisoners taken at Messines wore new boots and new uniforms. Other improvements included a less ragged rendering of the well-known recitation, "Kamerad!" * * * Asked what bait could be used for coarse fish, the late <sc>Food-Controller</sc> suggested one "made from bran, with a limited quantity of oatmeal." The correspondent has now written to inquire whether the fish have been officially informed of the new diet. * * * Four shillings a hundredweight is being paid for old omnibus tickets, but there are still a few people who use these vehicles for pleasure, without any motive of gain. <tb> [Illustration: <i>Visitor.</i> "<sc>Yes, but what's the point of whitewashing the tree trunks?</sc>" <i>Amateur Gardener.</i> "<sc>I can't say for certain; but I <i>think</i> the idea is to keep the bats from knocking their heads in the dark.</sc>"] <tb> Suspended Animation. /# "<sc>Laundry.</sc>--Girl to hang up and make herself useful."--<i>Liverpool Echo.</i> #/ <tb> /# "For myself, I have very good reasons for not being in khaki. I live on a farm near the Grand Falls of the St. John River. These falls are second to Niagara in size and splendour, and attract visitors from all over the country."--<i>Canadian Paper.</i> #/ He must have told the recruiting-officer that he was subject to cataract. <tb>
Post-proofing Guidelines
- Create an HTML version as well as a text version of the text.
- Follow the templates laid down below for both versions.
- Use this thread to discuss issues of post-processing which are unclear.
Here is a posted issue of Punch. We will be using this as the template for future issues. The guidelines below are a little wordy, but the formatting is actually very simple, as you can see if you look at the example issue. Note that these guidelines are necessarily oriented toward the more modern Punch issues -- very early ones have stylistic differences, which we can discuss in more detail at a later date.
General guidelines
Move pictures which are unrelated to the surrounding text to a position immediately after the article in which they embedded. If pictures are related to the article (as in the Essence of Parliament and At The Play illustrations), they should be kept inside the article, at the beginning of the appropriate paragraph.
Text guidelines
Block quotes should be offset four spaces from both margins. Poetry should be indented two spaces. Long lines of poetry which need to be wrapped should have the wrapped component indented ten spaces. The poetry indentation should reflect the indentation in the original text, preferably using indents which are multiples of two spaces.
The five * horizontal rule should divide all articles (self-contained illustrations count as articles for the sake of these guidelines). Individual Charivaria should be divided by an "***" indented seven spaces (so as to line up with the first asterisk of the five-* break).
The text should start
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. <vol number>. <MONTH> <day>, <year>.
The date appears at the top of every page image, as well as the project title. The volume number is 153 for all current weekly issues -- in the future this information also will be included in the project comments.
Punch pages normally have one or more articles, then one or more small space-filler anecdotes, which quote various newspapers. An example space-filler entry looks like this:
From a constable's evidence:-- "In his attempt to arrest her she threw herself on the ground and tried to smack his face."--_Weekly Dispatch._ The long arm of the law resents such presumptuous rivalry.
HTML guidelines
HTML Document Header
Write XHTML 1.0 code. Use the following header:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of Punch, ***DATE***.</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%;} p {text-align: justify;} p.author {margin-top: -1em; margin-right: 5%; text-align: right;} p.indent {text-indent: 1.5em;} blockquote {text-align: justify;} h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {text-align: center;} pre {font-size: 0.7em;} hr {text-align: center; width: 50%;} html>body hr {margin-right: 25%; margin-left: 25%; width: 50%;} hr.full {width: 100%;} html>body hr.full {margin-right: 0%; margin-left: 0%; width: 100%;} hr.short {text-align: center; width: 20%;} html>body hr.short {margin-right: 40%; margin-left: 40%; width: 20%;} .note {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; font-size: 0.9em;} span.pagenum {position: absolute; left: 1%; right: 91%; font-size: 8pt;} .smcap {font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: normal;} .poem {margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: left;} .poem .stanza {margin: 1em 0em 1em 0em;} .poem p {margin: 0; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;} .poem p.i2 {margin-left: 1em;} .figure {padding-right: 1em; padding-left: 1em; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 1em; margin: 0px; padding-top: 1em; text-align: center;} .figcenter {padding-right: 1em; padding-left: 1em; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 1em; margin: 0px; padding-top: 1em; text-align: center;} .figright {padding-right: 1em; padding-left: 1em; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 1em; margin: 0px; padding-top: 1em; text-align: center;} .figleft {padding-right: 1em; padding-left: 1em; font-size: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 1em; margin: 0px; padding-top: 1em; text-align: center;} .figure img {border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none;} .figcenter img {border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none;} .figright img {border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none;} .figleft img {border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none;} .figure p {margin: 0px; text-indent: 1em;} .figcenter p {margin: 0px; text-indent: 1em;} .figright p {margin: 0px; text-indent: 1em;} .figleft p {margin: 0px; text-indent: 1em;} .figure p.in {margin: 0px; text-indent: 8em;} .figcenter p.in {margin: 0px; text-indent: 8em;} .figright p.in {margin: 0px; text-indent: 8em;} .figleft p.in {margin: 0px; text-indent: 8em;} .figcenter {margin: auto;} .figright {float: right;} .figleft {float: left;} --> </style> </head> <body> <h1>PUNCH,<br /> OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.</h1> <h2>Vol. ***VOLUME***.</h2> <hr class="full" /> <h2>***DATE***.</h2> <hr class="full" /> ... the actual text ... </body> </html>
We use CSS to mark the text fairly semantically. We don't need to rearrange the text of the text version, just add markup around it. This means that it's probably easiest to generate the ASCII version, and then create the HTML version as a final step.
Page Breaks
In the HTML version we record all page breaks (except that we don't record purely blank pages). We use <span class="pagenum"><a name="pageNUM" id="pageNUM"></a>[pg NUM]</span>, where NUM is replaced with the page number. This is the page number, not the number of the page image, so the first page could easily be page 200. You'll need to check the page images to know the numbers to use. Example from the sample issue above:
... thing we could ill afford to do, for by this time <span class="pagenum"><a name="page21" id="page21"></a>[pg 21]</span> he had taken us under his wing spiritually and bodily. On Sundays he ... ... <span class="pagenum"><a name="page28" id="page28"></a>[pg 28]</span> <h2>GEMS FROM THE JUNIORS.</h2> ...
Headers
Article headers should be <h2>...</h2>.
Headers inside figure captions, and headers for filler material, should be <h3>...</h3>
Rules
The standard rule <hr /> should be used for everything except intra-article rules (such as those used to seperate Charivaria), where you should use <hr class="short" />
Blockquotes
Use <blockquote>...</blockquote>.
Smallcaps
Use <span class="smcap">...</span>.
Notes
The "note" class in the sample was used for a bracketed section of text where Punch explained the reasons for the article. This formats the text in a slightly smaller font than the surrounding material. Example:
<blockquote class="note"> [As indicated on another page, TINO'S actual opinion of his Imperial brother-in-law is probably not too amiable; but it has to be disguised in his letters, which are liable to be censored by his wife.] </blockquote>
This will not be used very often.
Poems
In order to correctly style poetry, we have to use a fairly verbose markup. Here is an example of it in use:
<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p>Thank you, dear William, I am fairly well.</p> <p class="i2">The climate suits me and the simple life—</p> <p>No diplomats to spoil the scenery's spell,</p> <p class="i2">And only faintest echoes of the strife;</p> <p>The Alps are mirrored in a lake of blue;</p> <p class="i2">Over my straw-crowned poll the blue skies laugh;</p> <p>A waterfall (no charge) completes a view</p> <p class="i2">Equal to any German oleograph.</p> </div> ... <div class="stanza"> <p>Were it not wise, dear WILLIAM, ere the day</p> <p class="i2">When Revolution goes for crowns and things,</p> <p>To cut your loss betimes and come this way</p> <p class="i2">And start a coterie of Exiled Kings?</p> <p>You might (the choice of safe retreats is poor)</p> <p class="i2">Do worse than join me in this happy land,</p> <p>And spend your last phase, careless, if obscure,</p> <p class="i2">With your devoted TINO hand-in-hand.</p> </div> </div>
So, we mark poems and stanzas with divs, and individual lines of a stanza with
s. We don't use s for indentation... instead we use CSS classes. 'i2' here stands for 'indent two spaces'. The corresponding definition in the header is: .poem p.i2 {margin-left: 1em;} This will be sufficient for most normal poems in Punch, which only have one level of indentation. If you are marking up a poem which has other levels of indentation, you'll have to create extra indentation classes which have appropriate margins. For example, you might need to add: .poem p.i4 {margin-left: 2em;} .poem p.i8 {margin-left: 4em;} If you're not happy to do this yourself, ask in the forum, and we'll help you decide the CSS to use.
Illustrations
You need to crop all the illustrations from the page images. They should not be resized, but kept at the original resolution. Keep them as PNGs (not JPGs—there's no advantage to using JPG for Punch's black-and-white illustrations). When cropping them, remove the caption text, as you'll be adding that back in the HTML. All illustrations should be placed in an images folder, and should be named by their page numbers. See here for the way the images from the sample issue are named. If there is only one image on the page, name it "PAGENUMBER.png". If there are n images on the same page, name them "PAGENUMBER-1.png" ... "PAGENUMBER-n.png".
All illustrations which are articles by themselves (i.e., not associated with a surrounding article), should be marked as follows:
<div class="figcenter" style="width:***WIDTH***%;"> <a href="images/***.png"><img width="100%" src="images/***.png" alt="" /></a> <p>***CAPTION***</p> </div>
This creates an image scaled to the width of the browser window, which you can click to view the full-size image. Here's an example from the sample issue:
<div class="figcenter" style="width:60%;"> <a href="images/021.png"><img width="100%" src="images/021.png" alt="" /></a> <p><i>Old Lady.</i> "And what regiment are you in?"</p> <p><i>The Sub.</i> "7th Blankshires. But I'm attached to the 9th Wessex."</p> <p><i>Old Lady.</i> "Really! Now <i>do</i> tell me why the officers get so fond of regiments with aren't their own."</p> </div>
The width of the div should be altered to reflect the width of the picture. Full-width images will be "width:100%", half page-width images will be "width:50%", etc.
Figures which should be flowed along with the surrounding article text should use the "figright" class instead of "figcenter", which will align the figure to the right, and allow the article text to flow around it. Example:
<div class="figright" style="width:40%"> <a href="images/026-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/026-1.png" alt="" /></a> <p>NO KILL-JOY. MR. BONAR LAW.</p> </div>
("figleft" works similarly, of course.)
Summary
Using the simple rules and templates above will ensure a consistent look-and-feel to the Punch issues posted to PG. There are many more issues to come, so it's worth defining a standard style. The style we are using has been developed over several months. If you disagree with any aspect of it, then feel free to discuss these disagreements, but preferably not via this thread, which should be reserved for discussion by people who are actually post-processing Punch issues.