we're looking at rfrank's "roundless" experiment at fadedpage.com... *** i've been looking at the data for one of the books rfrank used... the book is titled "eagles of the sky", and it runs about 240 pages. in total, there were about 500 lines that were changed by proofers. here's a list of roughly 300 of those lines:

http://z-m-l.com/go/frabf/frabf300diffs.html

the list shows the original line, from o.c.r., and the edited line. there's also a link to each page-scan, if you want to view that... i could've included all 500 changed lines in this list, except that the 200 lines i've excluded contained errors that _should_have_ (most definitely) been fixed in preprocessing, and it burns me up to be a witness to such a tremendous waste of proofer resources. it's just a crime against the generous contribution of the proofers to put such shoddy text in front of them and expect them to fix it. roger frank may think i'm talking shit about him again, but i tell you, i'll talk shit about _any_ producer who gives shoddy text to proofers, and, on top of that, i will feel _justified_ and _moral_ about doing it. i mean, it's not exactly a _mystery_ how to do good preprocessing. i have spent a lot of time writing posts here documenting _exactly_ how to do good preprocessing, and i did a heckuva lot of research to learn and test those preprocessing methods to prove their utility. so when someone just _ignores_ what i've done, and continues to burn out proofers by wasting their time and energy with material that should've had the obvious-and-easy-to-detect-automatically errors fixed before it went in front of 'em, i have a right to be mad. someone needs to talk some sense into roger's head, and do it fast. not to say that roger is the only one, or the worst one. not by far. i don't even bother looking at what the p.g. content producers are giving to their proofers these days, to protect my blood pressure. but since the odds that anything has changed over there are none and none, someone should talk some sense into _their_ heads too. it's a _shame_ to be wasting proofer time, and you producers who fail to do good preprocessing should be _ashamed_ of yourselves. *** at any rate, if that list of 300 changes is too dense for your brain, you can also thumb through the pages and see the changes made:

http://z-m-l.com/go/frabf/frabfp123.html

all changed lines are marked in red (o.c.r.) and blue (edits), so if any particular page (like page 123, linked to above) is all-in-black, it means that none of the lines on that page had any changes made. you will find this "stepping through the edits" to be very friendly... -bowerbird