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Originally Posted by jackie_w
My own preference would be not to scramble digits at all, but it doesn't seem like this is an allowable option.
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My personal opinion is that most digits would be OK unscrambled: footnote numbers, chapter numbers, the odd year within the text... But there may be some other digits that may need scrambling, like data within tables. Since there's no easy way to automatically decide which is which, the safest is to scramble everything (the same goes with chapter titles, "Chapter 1" would be fine, but a more elaborate title needs scrabling, that's why it's better to scramble everything). For the purpose of testing and debugging, I don't think maintaining footnote numbers or not makes any difference.
Regarding the metadata. It's OK (to me) to maintain author, title, genre... but a summary or description may need scrabling, so again it's better to scramble everything. And as for the content of HTML tags (between < and >), you wouldn't want to scrable "href" or "style" attributes, but "title" or "alt" may need scrambling too.