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"...

>   %ut
>   *Y
>   Adeste
>   Ah's
>   Ain
>   And'me
>   Avalking
>   afteh
>   agis
>   ar.e
>   arivals
>   artiele
>   atternoon
>   audtorium
>   Bam
>   Barnett
>   Baruett
>   Bradshaw
>   Buxton
>   bing
>   blackeyed
>   bootleggeh
>   boydom
>   butleh
>   C
>   Carlin
>   Caroline
>   Chanucey
>   Chauneey
>   Chetr
>   Chistmas
>   Christinas
>   Cie
>   Crede
>   cheks
>   cher
>   childf
>   couse
>   cousip
>   crede
>   D
>   Dat
>   Dey
>   Dodie
>   Dorrance
>   Dorranee
>   Dorry
>   de
>   dem
>   dere's
>   dictu
>   dinneh
>   doin
>   doublequick
>   drew'her
>   drummajor
>   E
>   Einma
>   Eosy
>   est
>   evidentally
>   Fascisti
>   Ferris
>   Fidelis
>   Finn
>   fatted
>   flyin
>   foh
>   G
>   Galilee
>   Geewhilikers
>   Glaus
>   Gr
>   Grood
>   Gwynne
>   git
>   goin
>   goodhumoredly
>   goodnight
>   guestspolitely
>   gwine
>   H'm
>   Hallowe'en
>   Hm
>   Howland
>   Huxley's
>   Huxleys
>   he'worked
>   hehse'f
>   high'spirits
>   hise'f
>   horribile
>   hurrried
>   hurryf
>   hurryin
>   ing
>   io
>   ioas
>   ivere
>   Josie
>   jus
>   Kose
>   LeEoy
>   Lena
>   LeRoy
>   Lovel
>   Lyon"Y
>   leftiit
>   longue
>   loquor
>   M
>   Mary
>   Maytime
>   Mm
>   Monday
>   mawnin
>   mayn't
>   me.v
>   mihi
>   miserabile
>   mon
>   muddly
>   mustn't
>   mysteriouser
>   Nup
>   neded
>   nevah
>   nosense
>   nuffin
>   O
>   O.K.
>   Onee
>   Ophelia
>   Orme
>   o
>   ol
>   on's
>   operam
>   orchestra"'next
>   oughtn't
>   Papa's
>   pail."I'm
>   palazso
>   palazzo
>   peccato
>   playin
>   prosecomp
>   proudj
>   puritanic
>   pusson
>   quaveringly
>   Rardon
>   r
>   re
>   Savilia
>   Savilla's
>   Savillas
>   Sehna
>   Selma
>   Sevilla's
>   Sevillas
>   sauve
>   schooltime
>   searchingiy
>   selfconscious
>   semed
>   serius
>   sewin
>   shound
>   siicceeded
>   slangily
>   slep
>   somthing
>   spect
>   spuzzy
>   suah
>   Titania
>   Tommy
>   t
>   t'ook
>   taMng
>   tempora
>   than,the
>   that.would
>   the'best
>   thore
>   tion
>   tiredlooking
>   tnat
>   togeteher
>   tol
>   trubble
>   ubi
>   under,his
>   unecessary
>   vero
>   victrola
>   vocabularly
>   Well,/remember
>   Willie
>   wanta
>   was'glad
>   welldressed
>   weren
>   wlio
>   woodchopper's
>   wouldn
>   wouldn'd
>   xnay
>   Y
>   Yes'm
>   year's
>   yo'se'f
>   yonr
>  
>   -Laura?
>   as-of
>   Bim-bang
>   car-fare?
>   co-operate
>   direc-i
>   distinguished-looking
>   E-r-r-boom
>   easy-going
>   entered,-her
>   faculty-versusstudent
>   G-od
>   G-ood
>   G-wynne
>   How-de-do
>   Howdo-you-do
>   have-something
>   how-do-you-do
>   hymn-book
>   ice-cream
>   inter-plays
>   it-go
>   junior-boys
>   keen-looking
>   Lu-chee-a
>   leave-takings
>   Mid-years
>   mid-years
>   non-sorority
>   One-two-three-go
>   pos-i-tive-ly
>   read-Cicero
>   room-and
>   school-girl
>   semi-order
>   senior-girls
>   Tooral-looral-loo-oo-oo-oo
>   Toot-toot
>   Trade-Last
>   tear-stained
>   termed-social
>   think-a
>   thought-Father
>   tooral-looral
>   tooral-looral-loo-oo-oo-oo
>   tr-ragic
>   try-out
>   twelve-thirty
>   What's-his-name
>   Ye-ah