some tools of the trade
This post exists in support of my C19 Americanists talk of April 2012. Below the cut: link-lists for transcription; text encoding; software aids; conversion to web, search, and other niceties; and (parts of the) community.
day of digital humanities 2010
I participated this year. I’m still working through the aggregated feed of everyone else’s posts. Matthew Jockers has rolled up a interesting cluster-based analysis of the posts of the 117 participants.
passing this way and that
On 28 February 1906, Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) spoke at the Hartford, Conn. funeral of his former coachman, Patrick McAleer. Both the local paper (Hartford Courant) and the New York Times carried stories about the event. The Times account of 5 March 1906 included this text: Patrick was a gentleman, and to him I […]
pointier
The current post follows upon its predecessor, which halts with an example of how a glyph representing something like its ideal antecedent doesn’t really suffice. The most recent “something like” problem involves character spacing.
on point
In the office I have been banging my head for several weeks against cross-platform, cross-browser font issues. (They’re surprisingly tangible.)