QUESTION: Should I report this text to Gutenberg for them to revisit? (Assuming there is a mechanism for that, I've not yet looked.)
I'm glad I'm doing the curlies by hand, as I'm finding tons of extraneous extra spaces that I'm correcting as I go. "There 's," "it 's," "I 'm," etc... A lot introduced by the printing, I'm sure, as I'm seeing it in the hardcover.
Still, the Distributed Proofreader
guidelines say:
Quote:
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In general, a punctuation mark should have a space after it but no space before it. If the OCR'd text has no space after a punctuation mark, add one; if there is a space before punctuation, remove it.
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I don't expect perfection out of Gutenberg texts but this one just seems considerably worse than normal, like it slipped through the cracks before being finished.
Anyway, I've got the single quote marks done and the text properly divided into chapters in Sigil. Enough progress for the moment, other things to do.