speaking of "betty lee", my latest version is on my site:

http://z-m-l.com/go/betle/betle.zml

that's as far as my "preprocessing" will go on that file... any further edits will be the product of "beta-readers"... the last round of tests i did on this file were regarding _single-quotemarks_. i coded a routine to check them, and was a bit surprised to see exactly what turned up... there were a lot of splotches on the scans of this book. (as i said before, this scan-set isn't up to roger's par.) and, as we know, o.c.r. is duty-bound to report splotches. what that meant, in this file, is that awholelotta splotches got misrecognized as single-quotemarks. dozens of 'em. and bad single-quotemarks don't show up in spellcheck... but they _did_ show up in this test, big and bright as day. so i believe i'm almost perfect on the single-quotemarks. of course, i would be very interested if you find an error, because it _might_ expose a shortcoming in my routine... (on the other 'hand, it just might be two' splotches which happen to _appear_exactly_like_ something "legitimate", like the open-close pair in the top line of this paragraph.) then again, unless you happen across one "by accident", you're probably not gonna find any errors in my results _unless_ you write a routine of your own to check them. so, you know, _be_my_guest_... ;+) -bowerbird