we're almost done creating our updated version of the book "pride and prejudice", using this archive.org book as our source:

http://archive.org/details/harvardclassicss03elio

*** here's our itinerary for today... 1. now the words are correct. we hope. 2. resolve all of the outstanding issues. 3. apply the styling and the formatting. 4. that's good for now, so go upload it. 5. prepare to cross the finish-line next. ** ok, since we have finished our comparison with a "clean" text, we'll assume the words are as correct as we can make 'em for now. (and by "words", i mean "punctuation" too. the scans for this book made it difficult to discern semicolons from colons, so i might have made more than a few judgment calls when it came to them; c'est la vie, c'est vrai.) *** now it's time to resolve any nagging issues. there's always some; a dozen in this book... you must be cautious in deciding to correct a publisher's error, but you also have to be able to pull that trigger when it's necessary. *** next is to apply styling and do formatting... text-styling -- italics, etc. -- can be a bear. in principle, it's easy; but in the cruel world, it can be painfully easy to miss some styling. not just on the first pass, but the second too. and the third, and the fourth, and the fifth... and italics are _a_necessary_component_ to grok what the author intended to emphasize. (whereas, for example, a difference between a semicolon and a colon is often negligible.) formatting is less of a chore, in the sense that it's usually much simpler to "get it right", and because it's fun to make the text "look right". but it's still a thing that eats time and energy. luckily, however, for _this_ book, many clean texts that we have available to us already did the grunt-work of the styling and formatting. so it was just a matter of slapping that in... (using a first-draft app, so no guarantees!) *** so the new version is now up:

http://zenmagiclove.com/prhpr/prhpr-009.zml

and of course the derivative versions as well:

http://zenmagiclove.com/prhpr/docomp89.py http://zenmagiclove.com/prhpr/prhpr-009h.html http://zenmagiclove.com/prhpr/prhprp222.html

*** we're closing in on the finish-line now... which means we need to run some last-minute tests, -- e.g., to make sure our quotemarks all balance -- and prepare the text for "continuous proofreading", which means putting an error-report form on each of the pages that show the scan alongside the text. see you tomorrow! :+) -bowerbird p.s. if you have any questions, now is the time to ask! p.p.s. hahahaha. i crack myself up sometimes. ;+)