this thread explains how to digitize a book quickly and easily. search archive.org for "booksculture00mabiuoft" for the book. *** ok, i ran a test on the end-of-line hyphenates...

http://zenmarkuplanguage.com/grapes119.py http://zenmarkuplanguage.com/grapes119.txt

behold, up popped "first-hand" and "pre-eminently"... although my dictionary currently accepts these as fully-joined, non-hyphenated words, _this_ book treated them both as _hyphenates_, even mid-line, so i changed them appropriately in my newest text. that "pre-" made me look at a few other common compounds, like half-whatever and co-whatever... that lead me to make a change to "co-ordination". my dictionary considers it a non-hyphenate, but this book had a case of "co-ordinating" midline, so i reinserted the hyphen, just to be consistent... *** so, our newest version of the text is now here:

http://zenmarkuplanguage.com/grapes007.txt

*** plus i did final spellcheck with the book's dictionary...

http://zenmarkuplanguage.com/grapes120.py http://zenmarkuplanguage.com/grapes120.txt

we're good to go... *** now we can get down to an evaluation of our work... given that we are now done with the text-cleaning, i ran a check against my existing text of this book, which has been _thoroughly_ cleaned many times... and, all in all, the results were very good. recall the book is over 200k, and 279 pages. *** 16 lines with o.c.r. errors going uncaught, most of which were involving _punctuation_. 2 were on a name, which we shoulda checked. error> plete expressions, in that concrete right> plete expressions. In that concrete change> =================^=^=============== error> and exhausts while he instructs; the right> and exhausts while he instructs, the change> ===============================^==== error> bought Cary's crib, and took it with right> bought Gary's crib, and took it with change> =======^============================ error> read my Cary's Plato. It so hap- right> read my Gary's Plato. It so hap- change> ========^======================= error> The latest of them, Count Tolstoi's right> The latest of them. Count Tolstoi's change> ==================^================ error> mass the facts about any given period; right> mass the facts about any given period, change> =====================================^ error> The reality of this element of per- right> The reality of this, element of per- change> ===================^---------------- error> all they saw and knew a part of them- right> ail they saw and knew a part of them- change> =^=================================== error> process, and culture and genius stand right> process, and culture and genius stand, change> =====================================^ error> there has always been not only a right> there has always been, not only a change> =====================^----------- error> stories and constantly touched upon right> stones and constantly touched upon change> ===^------------------------------- error> exploration, travel, and discovery; he right> exploration, travel, and discovery; ha change> =====================================^ error> There are, it is true, a few men and right> There are. It is true, a few men and change> =========^=^======================== error> from the days of the earliest Greek right> from the days of the earliest Greek, change> ===================================^ error> sion, thought, impulse, which never right> sion, thought. Impulse, which never change> =============^=^=================== error> grance, and growth which lie enfolded right> grance, and growth which he enfolded change> =========================^^^^^^^^^^^^ *** 4 new paragraphs that were missed, which shows you really can't skip this check like i did...

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*** 4 "errors" that were present in the p-book...

XIV. Racial Experience ......... 165 vironment, and the history of races man. This in not true of secondary selves throug all fields of thought,

*** ...plus i found two errors in the "criterion"... ...which just goes to show perfection is hard... *** again, all in all, a great performance for the amount of work we put into cleaning, a sturdy example of the cost-benefit ratio. -bowerbird