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Originally Posted by ShellShock
Possibly--but the version of Burmese Days I downloaded used hyphens instead of em-dashes, single quotes instead of opening and closing quotes, and single quotes instead of right apostrophes. Also there are blank lines between paragraphs, which I do not personally like as it wastes precious screen space.
In the Gutenberg source the em-dashes are represented by double hypens, which is easy enough to convert to em-dashes. The single quote marks are more difficult, but I have automated that somewhat so I'm hopeful that quotes are correctly balanced, but I need to proof read first.
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Don't forget that the Gutenberg ideal is to produce a book that is as close a copy of the original as possible - not to change it to a modern version....
Though I wonder what the date of production is on the books you are looking at ?