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Originally Posted by BobVA
What's up with this, anyway? This sounds like OCR issues, but I can't believe they don't have the original digital file the book was produced from, and that's presumably as error free as the print edition.
Puzzled,
Bob
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I don't believe they are OCR issues in this case. I suspect there are conversion artifacts (the whole "soft ware" thing might have actually been "soft-ware" with a soft hypen embedded in it; odd spaces on either side of a comma or a bracket are not uncommon in mark-up languages).
But yes, I would think there would be an electronic manuscript for a book this recent, and that somebody would have done some QC.
If you ever want to see just how henious OCR errors can get, try Rosetta's edition of "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"; in one particularly memorable paragraph, the word "other" gets turned into "otter", resulting in Zaphod braining a helpless animal on a table, as opposed to his other head.