[GrannyGrump]

So, to bring a (slight) derailment -- what is the consensus on "modernizing" punctuation?

I refer here to such examples as these from the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries:

He said:— or He said,— (using superfluous emdash)

To-day, to-night, to-morrow (I don't know about you, but it takes me out of the story just a bit. Although I know better intellectually, emotionally I keep thinking it is a stray hyphen left after OCR.)

Spaced ellipsis . . . instead of …

Punctuation inside parentheses of parenthetical phrases that today would be outside the parenthesis.

Lack of commas in run-on sentences that cry out for relief.
"I told him although I was ready now I would be on my way later."


Somehow, I can't bring myself to believe that changing these is controverting the author's "vision" -- especially since later authorized editions of these same titles *by the same publisher* very frequently update the punctuation and typography. And yes, the Mark Twain titles are a perfect example; works from the late 1800's were often updated in collections printed in the early 1900's.