Book People Archive

Re: Google Book Search and Einstein Digital Reprint

bowerbird wrote
>i most certainly advocate that measures be taken to ensure
>that end-line-hypenation can be removed _automatically_,
>simultaneously keeping hyphens that _should_ be retained.

That's the difference between hard hyphens and soft hyphens. In most 
cases they can be recognised automatically during the stage between OCR 
and editing. I will not allow either kind of hyphenation across 
page-boundaries. But inside my texts there are in fact page markers, 
which is how a text undergoing editing is linked to the scans of the 
page currently being worked upon. I feel that you can't edit unless you 
have instantly available an image of the page you're currently working 
on. But I cannot see the point of retaining line-breaks, except of 
course in poetry and the like. I do have internal markers in texts to 
indicate the start and end of verse, or the equivalent.

Tables are another matter.

Nick Hodson, London, England, United Kingdom.