Electricity in Ulysses

Dublin was just beginning to be electrified.

Neither the Tower nor 7 Eccles seems to have any electricity.

The Library does, the Pigeonhouse is a power station, the trams are electric.

Bloom dreams of electrical devices, and theorizes about its effects.

Some street lights have been converted from gas to electric.

The ballast office clock works by electric wire, and the race results come by telegraph.

The newspaper and some stores have telephones.

(Would the printing presses use electric motors?)

The theatres probably used arc lighting.

The generic Ulysses project

The goal: optimized editions of Ulysses on every ebook platform

The text: start with 1922, fix the typos, avoid controversies by hewing to 1922 (or to current consensus when it's uncontroversial)

The platforms:

HTML plus CSS: using the simplest possible CSS classes, get the basic layout right, so others can tweak it easily; a single file c2Mb, ampersanded special characters
(recent draft: https://sites.google.com/site/ulyssestext/1922r.html )

epub: break out chapters

markdown: asterisks for italics, ledger-table, minimal indents using nbsp?

gitbook: add back br, center, and...?

pdf: two versions, one small, one pretty

kindle: ?


Pagination: not normally visible (too intrusive), maybe hidden 1922 pagination plus Gabler


Annotations: eventually support multiple-file (chapters) with interlinear notes?


Conversions:

gitbook exports simplified epub, pdf, and mobi

Calibre for Windows does conversions from epub