roger said:
The DHYP button dehyphenates the page so spellchecking has whole words to check.
minor question, for roger... why not have the spellchecker join the hyphenates, solely to do its checking, and leave the text intact? *** major questions, for everyone... can someone give me a 2012 justification for the reductionistic attitude toward the proofing task? why are we still doling out pages one-at-a-time? in 2002, i understand why d.p. was conceptualized in such a fashion... o.c.r. wasn't nearly as reliable, so there were corrections necessary on every page, and each one might demand a chunk of your time. but today, you can clean an entire book in an hour -- in one pass, or in six 10-minute sessions, say -- and send it to the smoothreaders for a final check... so why don't you guys want people to do it that way? smoothreaders are lots easier to recruit from scratch. i've been beating this drum for a long time now, and maybe my own noise has deafened me to hear you, so i'm seriously asking you for an answer and i will promise to do my best to hear what you have to say, because i honestly believe there _is_ no justification. so if you believe you have one, can i hear it please? *** 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... by the way, if you wanted to clean roger's text as well, i've appended a list of questionable things to examine. some of 'em are undoubtedly right, but i'd look at 'em anyway, if i were to seriously take the job of this book. (which is to say i didn't actually examine all of this list.) and there were other errors i'd already fixed before i generated this list, so it won't be an exhaustive list... anyway, here you go...
http://z-m-l.com/go/betle/betlep123.html http://z-m-l.com/go/betle/betle.zml
-bowerbird p.s. list of easily-found possible-errors in "betty lee"...
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