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Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by gniv »

asimpletune wrote: post #31

Very cool project. I love how much thought you put into it, it really shows. One thing is I wanted to make you aware of is that the player doesn't work on MacOS Safari. Another thing that's really minor is that the font ligatures are a little distracting. Still though, amazing work. I love it and I'll keep checking in and seeing how it gets updated. I really wish something like this existed for ancient greek.

> the font ligatures are a little distracting

For me too. I realize I'll get used to them but I keep getting surprised whenever I see them.

Also, since we're talking distractions: the underlined words -- when hovering over them the rest of the verse shifts right to make space for the little sign, it feels strange (and in case this is browser specific: I am using Chrome on Mac).

Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by ItalianPoetry »

artzmeister wrote: post #40
ItalianPoetry wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was actually thinking of doing the same for Latin... Now the infrastructure is built, so the effort should be much smaller (but I'd need of course much more support from an expert ^^ ). Do you think it might have an audience?

Dude, yes! I was reading this and thinking "if only there was one for Latin..."! There is a big Latin & Ancient Greek server on Discord, and the people over there would love your project for sure. Lots of them being Italians, it would be even better. Since you're wondering about the help of experts, there would be no better place to go to than there. I dream of a unified platform for the classics - translation, archi…

Greek is sadly out of my reach, but I'm very curious about this Discord you mentioned.

Could you, here or by email, point it out to me? After this website has "settled" a bit, it might be fun to look into that Latin :)

Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by ItalianPoetry »

Qwuke wrote: post #25

I love the design of the site and it's really a dream for reading translated poetry! I enjoy reading a handful of Italian poets (and translated poetry in general), and a website like this for German, Polish, etc poetry would be lovely. Would you ever think of open sourcing this for others to attempt this for their own languages? I'd really love to see a couple poems from the notoriously hard to translate Giacomo Leop…

Never mind, it was La sera del dì di festa. But here it is :)

https://italianpoetry.it/poems/la-sera-del-d%C3%AC-di-festa/

Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by DreaminDani »

ItalianPoetry wrote: post #14
DreaminDani wrote: post #12

This is awesome! I love the podcast idea too. Is there a rss feed for the podcast? I'd love to subscribe on my podcast player so I can keep up as new poems are released

Sure! https://italianpoetry.it/podcast/index.xml It should also be available on fydd[1], Google podcast[2], Amazon[3] and Spotify. I don't have an Apple device, and I'm having trouble activating my Apple account, but I hope to put it on iTunes soon too. [1] https://fyyd.de/podcast/italian-poetry/0 [2] https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9pdGFsaWFucG9ldHJ... [3] https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/0f2c452e-f4fe-4…

Perfect. Thank you!

Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by ItalianPoetry »

silent_cal wrote: post #45

Love it, thanks for posting. I'm in the process of building a similar app for Latin. How did you handle loading the word data in the sidebar? Is all that data stored statically, or are you using fetch API to get it from a database?

Thank you!

It's all in the initial HTML payload. Each word in Italian, its translation in English, and the corresponding sidenote, if any, all have a common `data-id`. When the mouse hovers on a word, the corresponding note gets a `.visible` class via JS.

Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by silent_cal »

ItalianPoetry wrote: post #46
silent_cal wrote: post #45

Love it, thanks for posting. I'm in the process of building a similar app for Latin. How did you handle loading the word data in the sidebar? Is all that data stored statically, or are you using fetch API to get it from a database?

Thank you! It's all in the initial HTML payload. Each word in Italian, its translation in English, and the corresponding sidenote, if any, all have a common `data-id`. When the mouse hovers on a word, the corresponding note gets a `.visible` class via JS.

That's very clever... I think this will save me a lot of time. Thanks so much for sharing!

Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by ItalianPoetry »

asimpletune wrote: post #31

Very cool project. I love how much thought you put into it, it really shows. One thing is I wanted to make you aware of is that the player doesn't work on MacOS Safari. Another thing that's really minor is that the font ligatures are a little distracting. Still though, amazing work. I love it and I'll keep checking in and seeing how it gets updated. I really wish something like this existed for ancient greek.

I hope the player is not better on Safari!

Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by Qwuke »

ItalianPoetry wrote: post #43
Qwuke wrote: post #25

I love the design of the site and it's really a dream for reading translated poetry! I enjoy reading a handful of Italian poets (and translated poetry in general), and a website like this for German, Polish, etc poetry would be lovely. Would you ever think of open sourcing this for others to attempt this for their own languages? I'd really love to see a couple poems from the notoriously hard to translate Giacomo Leop…

Never mind, it was La sera del dì di festa . But here it is :) https://italianpoetry.it/poems/la-sera-del-d%C3%AC-di-festa/

This is a fantastic reading, kudos to you! I'll be sharing this with my reading group, I'll let you know if they've any feedback.
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