Very witty. It's the damn authors. Someone should have tried harder to keep e.g. Shakespeare on the tracks.
FWIW most of us volunteering to help create PG books are not "authors". What we are is some sort of transcriber who is trying on some level to understand the intent of the original author/publisher, so that we can transcribe to a "modern" format while respecting the intent of the original author/publisher -- where it is *important* to respect the intent of the original author/publisher, and equally importantly so that we can *ignore* details of the original paper layout where those details of the original layout were *not* important to the intent of the original author/publisher. Of course, beyond title, chapter title, and paragraph, there's probably never going to be 100% agreement between two transcribers about what the "original intent" *was* of the original author/publisher. The real problem lies when one scratches one's head trying to figure out the "original intent" of the author/publisher. In that case one ends up more-or-less transcribing the paper page literally -- because what else can one do? -- and modern display devices seldom are very friendly when it comes to displaying a page transcribed "literally."