On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
for my side, i scraped roger's text and images, and have already cleaned the book and placed it online, as if for smoothreaders. i didn't even bother to do a final spellcheck, or an exhaustive _italics_ search, so those are two tasks you could do if you want to...
i'm quite confident this meets my standard criterion, which is a rate of 1 error or less in every 10 pages...
Well, I've finished my comparison. I am impressed at BB's hour's work as posted in his version of Betty. I found only 22 errors that were right in mine and incorrect in his, excluding missed italics fromt the count. That result is better than his standard criterion. Very good work. I don't know yet what things might be wrong in both until I run gutcheck and some other tests. None of the "errors" I found were by gutcheck--they were only by running a straight compare of BB's and my files. I learned a few things. First, there are several more regex checks that would have helped and I'll bake those in. I also learned that even as it stands, half-baked, the ppe editor can produce a usable text. I'll put this one into HTML for the smoothie waiting for it and start another one. --Roger Note to BB: I'll send you those 22 errors in a separate email in case seeing them may help improve your process.