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Old 10-21-2011, 11:55 AM   #14
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but if I've not already read the book, I don't know that. so I limit the amount of advance tweaking that I do, to improving header layouts, paragraph spacings & indents.
Yeah, I glance through the file first, looking for problems. If there are any issues I just go and clean it up beforehand. You can usually make a good guestimate of the classes from just reading the CSS and looking for font styling.

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If, when reading, I see anything else that bugs me, I make a note of it using the reader notes facility then do an additional post-read edit. I do that also for annoying typos.
Yeah, I've just finished making 84 edits on an obviously pdf converted retail book - sent the changes back to the publisher :/.

Scifi conversions nearly always have their letters/signs etc messed up during conversion, especially when print books use a teletype style for them. So I spend a lot of time putting in <tt>'s. Yay.
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