as i said last week, i am considering whether to mount another demonstration here, using "the art of the book", a book that's currently over at distributed proofreaders, where it's now gone through the second proofing round. here's a brief preliminary report on the progress so far... the book consists of about 2500 lines in the o.c.r. preliminary indication is that ~80% were correct, as roughly 20% -- about 500 -- were changed by p1... and some 20% of those, ~100, were changed by p2. i haven't examined any diffs yet -- just counted 'em, but i can report 214 spacey quotes were in the o.c.r. p1 found and fixed 208 of those, missing a mere 6. p2 found and fixed 4 of the 6 that were present, 66%. of course, since almost every single one of them could have been found and fixed by automatic pre-cleaning, all of the time and energy that was spent was _wasted_. but i've already proven that fact here countless times, so there's no reason to go over the details once again. the main point is that a large percentage of the o.c.r. -- even full pages -- was totally correct to begin with. -bowerbird