Jim said: Simply my personal experience finishing a book taking this exact approach. When you take out the easy stuff, you are left with the stuff that typically the P2s and P3s find -- hopefully! When you do the machine marking of errors you double the amount of errors that need to be fixed -- since each input file contributes its errors. But now many of the "P1" type errors are marked, which could be a win if the P1 people were presented with a highlighted version of those errors, similar to what is currently presented in WordCheck. To me a surprising amount of work goes into fixing hyphenation/dehyphenation linebreak errors, where it should be possible to make a more intelligent tool to fix most of these problems -- or does someone claim to already have such an intelligent tool?
I made several such tools many years ago. I'm not sure I can locate them in my backups. In any case, I am in the process of creating some tools to assist in the process of proofing and formating. These would be for the use of 'solo' producers as well as DP users. I do not believe in full automation for anything complex (as it can induce as many errors as it fixes), so many of these tools would primarily prompt the user to make choices about things that 'confuse' the software. Carel _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d