Re: polishing polishing polishing

In my own proofing the only way I can have any confidence at all that
I'm catching all the italics is to scan through the entire text looking for
nothing but. As soon as I start noticing (and marking) anything else,
I start missing them.


On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:52 PM, James Adcock <[email protected]> wrote:

> >except now, in my confirmation work, i found at least _ten_
> instances where jim might well have missed an italics word.
> (can't say for sure, because i don't know exactly what edition
> he used, but at least according to my edition, he missed 'em.)
>
> This is quite possibly a true statement (but BB ought to actually compare
> to the editions that I used which is different than his edition).  I also
> hate italics work, and I do not know a way to help automate the checking –
> other than making sure that one records any italic determination made by
> the original OCR software – which also tend to be very bad at catching
> italics. Multiple historical printed editions also tend to be very bad at
> italics, with later editions tending to lose more and more of the italics
> found in the original.****
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