Re: etext error

by "Frank Boumphrey" <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>

Date:	Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:12:28 -0500
To:	"davey" <davey(at)inx-jp.org>
Cc:	<hwg-gutenberg(at)hwg.org>
References:
	todo: View Thread, Original

Hi Davey,

All ampersands have to be changed to &amp; I do this before doing any thing
else. I also check for < and > and convert those to their entities.

if you find an error in the text itself, check it against a copy of the book
if available (Note some of the older texts have archaic spellings, so be
careful!) . If you are SURE it is a transcribing error, change it and make a
note of it in the markup blurb.

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: davey <davey(at)inx-jp.org>
To: Frank Boumphrey <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 2:32 AM
Subject: etext error


> Hey, Frank!
>
> I found what is clearly a typo ("...to &how how...) on the original
> Gutenburg etext of "Tale of Two Cities":
>
> "Little need, in presence of that tribunal and that auditory, to &how
> how the Defarges..."
>
> This won't parse in Mozilla. I read on gut-site that we shouldn't change
> the original etext, but this error causes the thing to fail! What should
> I do?
>
> d

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