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graycyn · 12-11-2021, 05:27 PM

I'm through getting italics back in and checking paragraph structure, did Sigil spellcheck this AM, now I'm on to reading against the print. My eyes may not be able to do more than a chapter a day...

I've also found a PDF of the 1878 edition, which is paginated slightly differently, but may be of use in determining whether some words are hyphenated or not.

In the very first chapter, I've got "bean-stalk", hyphenated between lines, but Google search indicated that "beanstalk" had come into use by the time the book was published. And lo and behold, it's "beanstalk" in the first edition PDF! So that's what I'll use.

I don't expect to do this stage quickly, this is the stage where I hope to find any further punctuation errors from the Gutenberg text I might have missed, likewise for special characters, stray capitalizations, italics, or paragraph structure.

12-11-2021, 05:27 PM	#12
graycyn Wizard Posts: 1,591 Karma: 11722446 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: NE Oregon Device: Kobo Sage, Pocketbook Era, Kobo Forma, Kindle Oasis 2	I'm through getting italics back in and checking paragraph structure, did Sigil spellcheck this AM, now I'm on to reading against the print. My eyes may not be able to do more than a chapter a day... I've also found a PDF of the 1878 edition, which is paginated slightly differently, but may be of use in determining whether some words are hyphenated or not. In the very first chapter, I've got "bean-stalk", hyphenated between lines, but Google search indicated that "beanstalk" had come into use by the time the book was published. And lo and behold, it's "beanstalk" in the first edition PDF! So that's what I'll use. I don't expect to do this stage quickly, this is the stage where I hope to find any further punctuation errors from the Gutenberg text I might have missed, likewise for special characters, stray capitalizations, italics, or paragraph structure.