User talk:Hardybar
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Yann (talk) 09:43, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Is this file meant to be in that form? I am not sure that there is a lot of benefit in the document in that form at Wikisource. Happy to hear your thoughts. billinghurst (talk) 04:13, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
- We can talk here. I will watch your page.
- At Wikisource we tend to use wiki code rather than formal html. As a starter, can I point you to Side by side proofreading and info about .djvu files. While we can handle PDF files, DJVU files are a little neater for our purposes and they are easy to convert.
- What form is the existing document that you have? Knowing that will allow me to give the best advice of how we upload it.
- What is the source of the document?
- Is it in the public domain, hence no longer under copyright?
- -- billinghurst (talk) 01:35, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
- To edit, click one of the EDIT links. Either at the top of the page (edits the page), or at the right of the sub-heading marker (edits that section).
- Re the work, if you can output the file as a postscript file (.ps), then it can be converted to DjVu at http://any2djvu.djvuzone.org/ . billinghurst (talk) 03:15, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
Re: Wow, this seems a really cumbersome way to communicate, if I've got it right. I don't know if I can save the file to a .ps format. As for the source, the source is me. These are my own lyrics and therefore I can give permission to Wikisource to publish them, right? I have appended a copyright notice at the end of the document saying: "all rights reserved. permission granted for use in Wikisource by Don Farrar 12/20/09." Will this be sufficient? By the way, I just checked on my document and I apparently cannot save it as a .ps file. any other suggestions? it is still in Microsoft Word as a .doc file.
OK here's my update 5:30 PM 12/22 I downloaded a converter which I can only use 30 times as a trial without paying $39, but it only allows me to convert 1 page at a time. So I cut off the top and bottom of my original file, leaving only the lyrics in html. The file now should have a .ps extension. I will try to upload it now. Upload failed. Will not accept .ps files. Further research has revealed the the composer, Captain Van Boskerck, also wrote lyrics for this march, copyrighted in 1927, and renewed in 1965. However I found said lyrics freely available on line at various websites. Does this preclude publishing in Wikisource? If not, I would like to publish a page, headed "Semper Paratus", similar to the "Semper Fidelis" page. In it I can show the original lyrics by the composer with attribution, and then I would append my own lyrics at the bottom, giving permission, in a like manner to the "Semper Fidelis" entry. Can this be done, and can you help?