Now that we have a clean starting point, we can start getting the real work done. se typogrify can do a lot of the heavy lifting necessary to bring an ebook up to Standard Ebooks typography standards.
Like se clean, se typogrify accepts as its argument the root of a Standard Ebook directory.
se typogrify .
+ Like se clean, se typogrify accepts as its argument the root of a Standard Ebook directory.
se typogrify .
Among other things, se typogrify does the following:
Transcriptions often have errors, because the O.C.R. software might confuse letters for other, more unusual characters, or because the ebook’s character set got mangled somewhere along the way from the source to your repository. You’ll find most transcription errors when you proofread the text, but right now you use the se find-unusual-characters tool to see a list of any unusual characters in the transcription. If the tool outputs any, check the source to make sure those characters aren’t errors.
Transcriptions often have errors, because the O.C.R. software might confuse letters for other, more unusual characters, or because the ebook’s character set got mangled somewhere along the way from the source to your repository. You’ll find most transcription errors when you proofread the text, but right now you use the se find-unusual-characters tool to see a list of any unusual characters in the transcription. If the tool outputs any, check the source to make sure those characters aren’t errors.
se find-unusual-characters .
se find-mismatched-diacritics .
Similar to se find-mismatched-diacritics, se find-mismatched-dashes lists instances where a compound word is spelled both with and without a dash. Dashes in words should be normalized to one or the other style.
se find-mismatched-dashes .
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