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Originally Posted by bowerbird
vivaldirules said:
again, if there's anything you can add, i would appreciate it.
my aim is to write a program that will do a mass-beautification
of the entire project gutenberg library. i've made good progress.
> I don't have to tell you what happened when I then tried PDF files
> from the Internet Archive.
i wish you would've told us. i assume the text was too small to read.
-bowerbird
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Part of beautification I do is to make curly quotes (double and single), curly apostrophes, and dashes that are really dashes. Sometimes I adjust hyphenation to make better looking lines.
On small screens the margin needs to be almost as wide or as wide as the screen. To many page changes interrupts the reading pleasure.
Images should be adjusted for color (perhaps converted to gray scale) and adjusted for the screen.
For gutenberg you need to check paragraph splits, bad scan errors and other items. You almost have to read the whole book I am afraid to get it right.
Dale