speaking of "betty lee", my latest version is on my site:

>   http://z-m-l.com/go/betle/betle.zml

that's as far as my "preprocessing" will go on that file...
any further edits will be the product of "beta-readers"...

the last round of tests i did on this file were regarding
_single-quotemarks_.  i coded a routine to check them,
and was a bit surprised to see exactly what turned up...

there were a lot of splotches on the scans of this book.
(as i said before, this scan-set isn't up to roger's par.)

and, as we know, o.c.r. is duty-bound to report splotches.

what that meant, in this file, is that awholelotta splotches
got misrecognized as single-quotemarks.  dozens of 'em.

and bad single-quotemarks don't show up in spellcheck...

but they _did_ show up in this test, big and bright as day.

so i believe i'm almost perfect on the single-quotemarks.

of course, i would be very interested if you find an error,
because it _might_ expose a shortcoming in my routine...

(on the other 'hand, it just might be two' splotches which
happen to _appear_exactly_like_ something "legitimate",
like the open-close pair in the top line of this paragraph.)

then again, unless you happen across one "by accident",
you're probably not gonna find any errors in my results
_unless_ you write a routine of your own to check them.

so, you know, _be_my_guest_...     ;+)

-bowerbird