After you’ve reviewed the changes that the tool made, create an “[Editorial]” commit. This commit is important, because it gives purists an avenue to revert modernizing changes to the original text.
Note how we preface this commit with “[Editorial]”. Any change you make to the source text that can be considered a modernization or editorial change should be prefaced like this, so that the git history can be easily searched by people looking to revert changes.
git commit -am "[Editorial] Modernize hyphenation and spelling"
+ Sometimes during transcription or even printing, instances of some words might have diacritics while others don’t. For example, a word in one chapter might be spelled châlet, but in the next chapter it might be spelled chalet.
se find-mismatched-diacritics lists these instances for you to review. Spelling should be normalized across the work so that all instances of the same word are spelled in the same way. Keep the following in mind as you review these instances:
In modern English spelling, many diacritics are removed (like chalet). If in doubt, ask the SE Editor-in-Chief.
Even though diacritics might be removed in English spelling, they may be preserved in non-English text, or in proper names.
+++He visited the hotel called the Châlet du Nord.
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Over time, spelling of certain common two-word phrases has evolved into a single word. For example, “someone” used to be the two-word phrase “some one,” which would read awkwardly to modern readers. This is our chance to modernize such phrases.