I'm another one who prefers the original spelling/punctuation when reading older books. It would be good if they could have separated the cleanup/correction step from the modernisation step, and issued separate original and modernised editions. Especially since 'modernised' also seems to mean 'Americanised'. From their
typography manual:
Quote:
* Our general style guide is the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, with a few tweaks outlined below. Work following a different style guide should be converted to conform to ours, unless it changes the meaning of the work.
* Do convert from logical punctuation to American punctuation where possible.
* Do convert from British quotation to American quotation where possible. The british2american script is helpful for automating most (but not all!) of this.
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