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Originally Posted by Henrycat
JIf anyone finds errors, things i should change, feel free to point it out and i'll try to update the file when i can.
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Nice typeface -- new to me. (For those who like it, it's free: see
http://www.stormtype.com/free.html )
Obvious problems:
Hyphenation. Page 13: Passep-artout is quite ugly (but easily fixed). There are some other hyphenations I would not accept myself, but you may have different taste -- I would not leave add-ed, or cab-in for instance: never bring over less than three letters to the next line.
'--' must be converted to em-dash. (There are even a few instances where '--' has been broken over two lines!) If the em-dash seems to long, reduce width to 2/3rds or so by a character style.
You got the 'Change apostrophe the wrong way around -- words in which the first part has been left out use a right apostrophe: ’em, ’op-o-me-thumb, etc. So: ’change. (This is one of the problems with Gutenberg texts ... you have to do all quotes yourself, and verify that they are correct.)
Minor fixes:
Words in all caps are easier to read when they're spaced out more than usual. Try tracking of 40 or 50 or so for chapter titles. (Also TOC entries).
The table of contents ... well, it's useless unless you know the chapter you want. The subtitle needs to be included as well for finding the chapter with the right contents. It could, I suppose, be argued that a search function could be used for that -- but in that case it would be more useful to drop the TOC and rewrite chapter numbers in roman letters to make them possible to search for as well. In a pure e-book, page folio references are not needed, and TOCs should probably be modified accordingly.
In this case, I think I would have done it:
"Ch. 1 in which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout accept each other, the one as master, the other as man.
Ch. 2 in which .... etc."
Polishing:
The spacing before ! and ? is a bit too tight in this typeface -- it's particularly visible with the ? which nearly bumps into the preceding letter. Add at least a hair space before !?:; to improve this -- perhaps more will be needed. (Some typefaces have this space built in.)
I'd use optical margin justification -- Type | Story ... and set whatever line spacing you use.
I would drop the '.' after 'Mr.' and 'St.' -- it's a bit old-fashioned style. Similarly, I'd write to-day, to-morrow etc. in one: today, tomorrow.
And I'd probably invert the quotes: using single quotes for outer quotes, and double for inner. It often saves useful line space without decreasing readability. (Single right quotes have to be handled manually, of course, so it may be overkill for your purposes.)
And I'd probably look common abbreviations over as well.