Re: ok, let's take a look at gardner's book, just for the exercise
i did some more work on gardner's book, "the advocate". i continued to do preprocessing on the archive.org o.c.r., and posted the results on my website. here's a sample url:
the number of lines that differ between the cleaned o.c.r. and gardner's file has dropped to under 300, which is great, since the book contains about 3,900 lines in it. so it's <8%. so again we show the stupidity of a word-by-word proofing. i'm gonna go through one final round of preprocessing, and then we'll set out to resolve the differences. already, however, i can tell that gardner did a very good job on it. not perfect! but certainly something to be quite proud of. the (presumably incorrect) lines from the o.c.r. are in red, while the lines from gardner's proofed copy are in blue... if you prefer to view all the edits on one web-page, see:
i also included the preprocessing edits i made on page 126, so you can get a feel for how little time i spent doing them... -bowerbird
On 22-Feb-2010 19:45, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
i did some more work on gardner's book, "the advocate".
if you prefer to view all the edits on one web-page, see:
Interesting. The colours go a bit wonky at "the awful and spectral presence of Mount Royal." ... page 29 (there's that pagination :-)) Markup aside, I picked up a total of 47 fixes. A lot of extra commas. Several full-stop/comma and semi-/full-colon. Some spelling issues that I can't see how they got past the spell check and a couple of word --> sensible-wrong-word scano's. Thank you! There seems something wonky about the text in red that is "mine" in a few places. Undoubtedly it is mine where I have substituted the correct spelling "Sainte Hélène" where the book had left off the accents inconsistently. But there are places where "my" text contains errors that I do not believe were in my text. I will double-check what exactly I sent you as I might have fixed things during reformatting, as that is normally my final "smooth reading" stage of proofing. ============================================================ Gardner Buchanan <gbuchana@teksavvy.com> Ottawa, ON FreeBSD: Where you want to go. Today.
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