Colophon
Originally, I've built the files from the now copyright-free texts as a fun exercise in order to learn about TeX, Typesetting and Typography in general. Initially, the stories were transformed into XML files containing all requried content and markup information – whether, for example, a dot finishes a sentence or is used as abbreviation punctuation. Using various tools, these files are then converted into PDF, HTML, ePUB or plain-text files. This allows many layout variations without the need to work on all files individually. For example, the A4-sized canon contains 989 pages, the letter variant 995 pages due to it's smaller pages size.
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These pages are mainted by Christoph Ender.
Change Log
| Date | Version | Description |
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| August 3rd, 2012 | 2.5 |
Fixed typo in “A Study in Scarlet” thanks to Ravi Shankar aka @mirasravi.
Corrected one typo in “The Crooked Man” and one more in the preface to “His
Last Bow”, both thanks to Mohamed El Mahrsi aka @MohamedMahrsi.
Fixed spelling in “The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez”.
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| March 28th, 2012 | 2.4 |
Fixed typos in “The Yellow Face”, “The Sign of Four” and the “Stockbroker's
Clerk”, thanks to Joe Carey. Fixed one misspelling in the “Reigate Puzzle”
and two in the “Naval Treaty”, thanks to Shreevatsa R. Fixed typo in “A Study
in Scarlet”, thanks to @mirasravi. Replaced static ePUB identifier with
UUID.
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| January 17th, 2012 | 2.3 |
Fixed missing charachter in opening of “A Study in Scarlet”, thanks to
Aaryoosha.
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| January 14th, 2012 | 2.2 |
Re-added missing postscript and subject lines in “The Sussex Vampire”, thanks
to Nektaria.
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| January 2nd, 2012 | 2.1 |
Fixed an overfull page in “The Sign of Four” at the end of Chapter III.
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| January 1st, 2012 | 2.0 |
Re-implemtented the entire build system. Instead of the Makefiles originating
from 2003,
Apache Ant is used
for general processing. Added ePUB output, recoded source XML files and
reformatted letters, newspapers and telegrams, added missing pictures.
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| August 31, 2010 | 1.20 |
Fixed a typo in “The Sign of the Four”, thanks to Duncan McDougall.
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| December 1, 2009 | 1.19 |
Added “reverse-side-margin” two-page layout. In this layout, the inner
margin is larger than the outer for easier binding of the pages.
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| August 27, 2009 | 1.18 |
Fixed two more typos in “Silver Blaze”, thanks again to Josh Martens.
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| August 10, 2009 | 1.17 |
Fixed typo in “Silver Blaze”, thanks to Josh Martens.
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| July 1, 2009 | 1.16 |
Fixed typo in “The Final Problem” and re-added lost images to
“The Dancing Men”, thanks to Josh Martens.
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| June 4, 2009 | 1.15 |
Fixed typo in “A Study in Scarlet”.
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| May 21, 2009 | 1.14 |
Added prefaces to “His Last Bow” and to the “Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”,
fixed links in table of contents.
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| March 30, 2009 | 1.13 |
Fixed typo in "The Crooked Man”.
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| January 28, 2008 | 1.12 |
Fixed PDF-specific table of contents, used Yannis Haralambous' baroque
initials from the
yfonts package for the story openings.
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| September 29, 2007 | 1.11 |
Corrected an error in CROO and added the version number to the small print
after the title page.
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| September 20, 2007 | 1.10 |
Added spacing between subsequent quotes in the PDFs, fixed typos in GLOR
and REIG and a quote in MUSG and superfluous empty paragraphs.
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| September 10, 2007 | 1.9 |
Corrected typos in “The Yellow Face” and “The Stockbroker's Clerk”.
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| September 9, 2007 | 1.8 |
Switched to
old style
figures and fixed a typo in “Silver Blaze”.
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| August 30, 2007 | 1.7 |
Fixed quoting in “The Abbey Grange”.
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| August 18, 2007 | 1.6 |
Fixed list in the HTML issue of “The Five Orange Pips” and a superfluous
dot in “The Man with the Twisted Lip”.
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| August 12, 2007 | 1.5 |
Added forgotten left-quote in “The Red-Headed League”.
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| July 23, 2007 | 1.4 |
Fixed letter-layout in a number of places and re-built this index webpage,
which now allows much easier access to the 2-sided variants.
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| June 11, 2007 | 1.3 |
Corrected a typo in “The Devil's Foot”.
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| June 10, 2007 | 1.2 |
Re-built the print-space in the letter-sized PDFs to better suit the paper
format. Added two-sided PDF output in the respective A4- and
Letter-specific directories, not on the print story index yet.
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| June 7, 2007 | 1.1 |
Added plain text output, re-built the index web page and archived all
changes pre-dating this year.
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| June 3, 2007 | 1.0 |
Finally finished converting the last texts, did the proofreading, got rid
of the last formatting issues and set up the new table of contents. This
marks the end of the text conversion and the release of the the first
plain collection.
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| April 14, 2007 |
Thoroughly proof-read all the current 48 out of 60 stories, eliminating
approximately a hundred spelling or formatting errors in the process. Now,
only two things remain: Adapting “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”
and creating a corrected table of contents.
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