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I'm a bit late to the discussion, but here are my two cents --
The publisher of the version you are transcribing or using as a reference altered the original work for financial reasons. They did not want to use a larger more expensive page size for the volume. For other reasons they did not use a smaller font size of a more condensed type. You have the ability to correct the prior changes. To preserve these errors is lunacy.
When I did the Harvard Classics series the two areas I dreaded most were verse and plays. These were posted in Sony LRF, MobiPocket PRC, and IMP formats (and a second version of IMP by Nick.) While all the words and marks are there, the visual structure is gone. The nature of the tools I used to create the final formats pushed all lines flush left and often deleted the spaces between related elements thus creating a solid mass. I do plan on going back and redoing all 50 volumes in the future as work and other commitments allow.
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