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README.md

Don Quixote Parallel Text

Bilingual parallel text in Spanish and English.

Status: Under early development.

Cover

Don Quixote cover

Sample page

Don Quixote sample page

Sources

Spanish Text

Main text used:

Based on this scan:

Don Quixote Prologo

English Text

Translated by John Ormsby.

Main text used:

The Standard Ebooks version was based on this transcription from Project Gutenberg:

Standard Ebooks then made corrections and added footnotes based on these scans from an 1893 edition.

Images

Cover

Gustav Doré image, traced with potrace. Source:

Build

To clean the build environment, for instance if a build fails run:

make clean

The "main" command to build a PDF of the document, run:

make pdf

To convert the PDF to a Postcript document:

make ps

To build a PDF of the cover:

cover

To convert the PDF to a Postscript version of the cover:

make cover-ps

To build a Postcript "2up" version of the document, with two pages per leaf (e.g. verso and recto).

make 2up

To build PDF and Postscript signatures for local printing and binding into a book:

make signatures

To build everything:

make

Scripts

To get a rough start to the LaTeX documents from the upstream sources, scripts in Python and Lua using Pandoc are used.

To setup, something like this. Flavor to Python taste:

git clone https://spacecruft.org/books/quixote
cd quixote/
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
# For development tools
pip install -e .[dev]

Standard Ebooks

The Standard Ebooks source is cloned from the git repository. The raw format they use is .xhtml. Convert like this, adapting to the appropriate path:

quixote-xhtml2tex -o preface-1.tex miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra_don-quixote_john-ormsby/src/epub/text/preface-1.xhtml

Wikisource

The Wikisource document is available in many formats. It may be best to just use the raw mediawiki code.

Fonts

Copy the .otf and/or .ttf files to ~/.fonts/.

Fell Types

The Fell Types are originally by John Fell (23 June 1625 – 10 July 1686).

The types were recreated in a computer font by Igino Marini.

The fonts are under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. The font files are widely available across the Internet in a variety of versions and formats. The OTF format is preferred, as I think it will work better with LaTeX microtype. Here is one location that has OTF and a recent version.

Also available in the Wayback Machine:

Swell Types

The Swell Types are a lowly fork of the Fell Types by me to add characters missing from the Fell Types that appear in the 1608 Spanish source, such as "ẽ" and "q̃".

The font is under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Hopfer Hornbook

Hopfer Hornbook was originally designed by Daniel Hopfer (c. 1470 – 1536).

Staffan Vilcans created the digital version.

The font is also widely available on the Internet and under a free license.

Romantique Initials

English (right page) drop caps are Romantique Initials (believed to be) by Marwan Aridi.

Freely available on the Internet, such as:

The license description reads:

"Possessor is granted license to do anything at all with this font, including but not limited to unlimited use, unlimited copying, decompilation, modification, redistribution, with the single exception that no use shall be made of this that is illegal, immoral, or fattening."

Latin Modern

Latin Modern fonts by the Polska Grupa Użytkowników Systemu TeX are freely available in Debian. The fonts are derived from Computer Modern by Donald E. Knuth, creator of TeX.

OCR-A

The ISBN in the interior pages is in OCR-A. OCR-A is a font designed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in the 1960s.

The version used was designed by John Sauter and is in the public domain.

It is available in Debian.

OCR-B

The ISBN font below the barcode on the back cover is OCR-B. The font is freely available and in Debian and TeX Live.

Nimbus

The ISBN font above the barcode on the back cover is Nimbus Sans condensed. The font is freely available and in Debian.

Drop Caps

Spanish (left page) drop caps are from the original 1608 book. They were extracted and cropped from this text:

Then converted to vector graphics with potrace. All have been converted, but some need reworking.

Lulu

The book will be printed by Lulu, which can also distribute.

There are various project forms to be filled out.

Start

  • Print book.
  • Publish Your Book: Lulu Bookstore.
  • Project Title: Don Quixote
  • Book Language: Spanish. XXX Only one can be selected.
  • Book Category: Fiction.

Copyright

  • Title: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
  • Subtitle (optional): Bilingual Parallel Text in Spanish and English
  • Edition (optional), drop down selection: Bilingual 'facing page' edition
  • Edition statement (optional): <blank>
  • Contributors:
    • Original Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    • Translated by: John Ormsby
    • Edited by: Jeff Moe
  • Copyright: No Rights Reserved - Public Domain
    • Creative Commons Zero (CC 0)
  • ISBN: I have my own ISBN
    • ISBN: 978-1-968646-04-2
    • Imprint/Publisher: Jeff Moe
    • Contact Informantion: Jeff Moe, address, etc.

Design

  • Interior File Upload: Upload quixote-[VERSION].pdf git tagged version.
  • Book size: Novella (5 x 8 in / 127 x 203 mm)
  • Interior Color: Standard Black & White
  • Paper Type: 60# Cream -- Uncoated
  • Binding Type: Paperback Perfect Bound
  • Cover Finish: Glossy
  • Upload Your Cover: Upload quixote-cover-[VERSION].pdf git tagged version.
  • Download Print-Ready Files, and review.

Details

  • Description (required): This bilingual, parallel text edition features both the original Spanish text from 1608 and a modern translation into English.

Miguel de Cervantes (September 29th, 1547 (assumed) – April 22nd, 1616), XXX...

  • Table of Contents (optional):
XXX
  • Lulu Bookstore Category: Fiction
  • BISAC Main Category: FICTION / Classics
  • BISAC Category 2 (recommended): FICTION / Literary
  • BISAC Category 3 (recommended): FICTION / Hispanic & Latino XXX ?
  • Keywords (one required, 50 max): Spanish, dual text, facing page translation, dual language, public domain, parallel text, bilingual, classics, fiction, XXX
  • Audience: General/Trade Adult fiction and nonfiction
  • This Book contains Explicit Content: unchecked

Pricing and Payees

  • Set Price: Revenue Goal
  • Revenue Goal: $0.00
  • Currency: USD
  • List Price: Automatically generated, keep defaults
  • Your Estimated Revenue: $0.00
  • Set Payees. Required to set one, even for $0.00 revenue.
  • Payees for your book: Must connect to PayPal payee.
  • Share: 100%

Final Review

  • When ready, click <Confirm and Publish>

Bowker ISBN

Bowker Publishing Services is the exclusive agent (monopoly) for assigning ISBNs in the USA.

The ISBN will be:

978-1-968646-04-2

The form on their site has the following form details to fill out.

Book Cover Image

To create the cover image for Bowker (must be JPG), run this:

convert -density 300 quixote-cover-*.pdf -crop 50%x100%+1670+0 img/front_cover.jpg

Front Cover

Don Quixote -- front cover

Title Information

Authors & Contributors

  • Contributor 1:
    • Individual
    • First Name: Miguel
    • Last Name: de Cervantes Saavedra
    • Biography: XXX
    • Function: Original Author
  • Contributor 2:
    • Individual
    • First Name: Jeff
    • Last Name: Moe
    • Biography: <blank>
    • Function: Editor, Prepared for Publication by, Cover Design by
  • Contributor 3:
    • Individual
    • First Name: John
    • Last Name: Ormsby
    • Biography: <blank>
    • Function: Translator

Medium & Format

  • Medium (dropdown): Print
  • Format: Paperback
  • Format Details: Digest format paperback (XXX no "novella" format)
  • Packaging Description: No outer packaging
  • Trade Catalog: US open market edition
  • Size Details
    • Weight: <blank>. XXX unknown.
    • Units (weight): <blank>. XXX unknown.
    • Number of pages: XXX may change.
    • Number of illustrations: <blank>. Can't be 0.
    • Carton quantity: <blank>
    • Size Units: Inches. Can't use Millimeters because values must be less than 99.
    • Length(1) (they mean how tall!): XXX
    • Width(2): XXX
    • Height(3) (how thick): <blank>. XXX unknown.

Subjects & Genres

  • First Genre:
    • FICTION_GENERAL
  • Second Genre:

Sales & Pricing

United States

  • Publisher: Jeff\Moe. XXX It won't let that field be changed, and "" is hard-coded in there. Though on the main page about the account, the "" isn't there, so it must just be how they do it (?).
  • Publication Date: XXX Update
    • Month: XXX
    • Day: XXX Update
    • Year: 2025
  • Title Status: Active Record
  • Target Audience: Trade
  • From Age: XXX
  • To Age: and Up
  • Academic Grade From: XXX
  • Academic Grade To: College Graduate Student
  • Title Ship Date: XXX Update
    • Month: XXX
    • Day: XXX Update
    • Year: 2025
  • Final Return Date: <blank>
  • On Sale Date: XXX Update
    • Month: XXX
    • Day: XXX Update
    • Year: 2025
  • Out of Print Date: <blank>
  • Is The Title Returnable?: No
  • Series Title: <blank>
  • Series Volume: <blank>
  • Book Price:
    • Set Dollar Amount
    • $: XXX update base on Lulu final number.
  • Currency: US Dollars
  • Price Type: Retail Price
  • Price Availability: Manufactured on demand (POD)
  • Distributor: <blank> No options in the drop down. Should Lulu be added?
  • Discount Code: <blank>

Links

Spanish

Text

Modernized spelling

Scans

Notes

Bilingual Spanish/English

English

Text

Scans with OCR

archive.org

Notes, studies, bibliographies, etc.

Repository Images

To generate images to view in the repository README.

convert quixote-cover-*.pdf img/cover.png
pdftoppm -png -f 8 -l 9 quixote-[VERSION].pdf tmp/sample
convert +append tmp/sample-008.png tmp/sample-009.png img/sample.png

License

The combination of the two public domain texts into a single work in LaTeX and the resultant outputs are placed in the public domain.

CC0 1.0 Universal

2025, Jeff Moe