DP | Moderate Proofreading Quizzes and Tutorials

This section covers other aspects of the proofreading guidelines, beyond what is in the Basic section. The pages include items that you are likely to see when proofreading Average projects.

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Moderate Proofreading Quiz and Tutorial, Part 1

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Page 1: Superscripts

Proofreading Tutorial

Intro

In this tutorial you will be presented extracts from the Proofreading Guidelines. After each part you will be led to a quiz page, where you can try out the newly learned rules. These Moderate Proofreading Quizzes build on the topics already covered in the tutorial for the Basic Proofreading Quiz.

Moderate Proofreading Tutorial: Part 1, Page 1

Superscripts

Older books often abbreviated words as contractions, and printed them as superscripts. Proofread these by inserting a single caret (ˆ) followed by the superscripted text. If the superscript continues for more than one character, then surround the text with curly braces { and } as well. For example:

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Moderate Proofreading Quiz, Page 1:

PROOFREADING QUIZ PART 1, PAGE 1

OCR:

warm bath on March 8th (who shall say hereafter

that science is unfeeling?), upon which the grateful

snail put his head cautiously out of his shell,

walked up to the top of the basin, and began to take

a survey of Eritish institutions with his four eyebearing

tentacles. So strange a recovery from a

long torpid condition deserved an exceptional amount

of scientific recognition. The desert snail at

Desert snail.

once found himself famous. Nay, he actually sat

for his portrait to an eminent zoological artist, Mr.

B3

PROOFREAD:

warm bath on March 8^{th} (who shall say hereafter

that science is unfeeling!), upon which the grateful

snail put his head cautiously out of his shell,

walked up to the top of the basin, and began to take

a survey of British institutions with his four eye-bearing

tentacles. So strange a recovery from a

long torpid condition deserved an exceptional amount

of scientific recognition. The desert snail at

Desert snail.

once found himself famous. Nay, he actually sat

for his portrait to an eminent zoological artist, Mr.

Page 2: End-of-line hyphenation, contractions, dashes

End-of-line Hyphenation

Words like to-day and to-morrow that we don't commonly hyphenate now were often hyphenated in the old books we are working on. Leave them hyphenated the way the author did. If you're not sure if the author hyphenated it or not, leave the hyphen, put an * after it, and join the word together like this: to-*day. The asterisk will bring it to the attention of the post-processor, who has access to all the pages and can determine how the author typically wrote this word.

Contractions

In English, remove any extra space in contractions. For example, would n't should be proofread as wouldn't and 't is as 'tis.

Dashes

Dashes in Deliberately Omitted or Censored Words or Names.

If represented by a dash in the image, proofread these as two hyphens or four hyphens as described for em-dashes & long dashes. When it represents a word, we leave appropriate space around it like it's really a word. If it's only part of a word, then no space–join it with the rest of the word.

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PROOFREADING QUIZ PART 1, PAGE 2

OCR:

364   ALICE ORVILLE.

"When folks can't do as they will, they must do

as they can, I've heard say."

Thus we leave our adventurers and return north-

east to the land from which they are receding. We

did n't know what else to do here, reader, for we

were quite as tired of the characters as you wore,

and wanted to get them off our hands in some

way. * * * A few people think E--e can tell

stories tolerably well. But she can't, reader! We

PROOFREAD:

"When folks can't do as they will, they must do

as they can, I've heard say."

Thus we leave our adventurers and return north-*east

to the land from which they are receding. We

didn't know what else to do here, reader, for we

were quite as tired of the characters as you were,

and wanted to get them off our hands in some

way. * * * A few people think E--e can tell

stories tolerably well. But she can't, reader! We

 

Page 3: Accented characters, fractions

Accented/Non-ASCII Characters

Please proofread these using the proper UTF-8 characters. For characters which are not in Unicode, see the Project Manager's instructions in the Project Comments.

Inserting Special Characters

If they are not on your keyboard, there are several ways to input special characters:

• The character picker at the bottom of the proofreading interface.

• Keyboard shortcuts.

  Tables for Windows and Macintosh which list these shortcuts are in the Proofreading Guidelines.

• Other methods described in the guidelines.

 

Fractions

Proofread fractions as follows: ¼ becomes 1/4, and 2½ becomes 2-1/2. The hyphen prevents the whole and fractional part from becoming separated when the lines are rewrapped during post-processing.

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OCR Error: There is still a 'scanno' in the text: a period (.)

OCR:

pedagogue, of Birmingham manufacture, <i>viz,

Dr</i>. Parr, had amassed a considerable quantity of

gold plate. But growing every day more afraid

of being murdered, which he knew that he could

not stand, he transferred the whole to the black-

smith; conceiving, no doubt, that the murder of

a blacksmith would fall more lightly on the

salus reipublicae, than that of a pedagogue. But I

have heard this greatly disputed ; and it seems

now generally agreed, that one good horse-shoe

is worth about 2% Spital sermons.

 

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pedagogue, of Birmingham manufacture, <i>viz,

Dr</i>. Parr, had amassed a considerable quantity of

gold plate. But growing every day more afraid

of being murdered, which he knew that he could

not stand, he transferred the whole to the black-*smith;

conceiving, no doubt, that the murder of

a blacksmith would fall more lightly on the

salus reipubliæ, than that of a pedagogue. But I

have heard this greatly disputed; and it seems

now generally agreed, that one good horse-shoe

is worth about 2-1/4 Spital sermons.

 

Error: OCR software omitted the period (.) in Line 1 (<i>viz,)

Hyphenation error: "blacksmith" NOT "black-*smith"

PROOFREAD: 1

Dr</i>. Parr, had amassed a considerable quantity of

gold plate. But growing every day more afraid

of being murdered, which he knew that he could

not stand, he transferred the whole to the black-*smith;

conceiving, no doubt, that the murder of

a blacksmith would fall more lightly on the

salus reipubliæ, than that of a pedagogue. But I

have heard this greatly disputed; and it seems

now generally agreed, that one good horse-shoe

is worth about 2-1/4 Spital sermons.

Error: the word "blacksmith" also appears in the middle of a line on this page, which identifies the author wrote the word without a hyphen. There is no need to insert asterisk when rejoining the word.

PROOFREAD: 2

pedagogue, of Birmingham manufacture, <i>viz.,

Dr</i>. Parr, had amassed a considerable quantity of

gold plate. But growing every day more afraid

of being murdered, which he knew that he could

not stand, he transferred the whole to the blacksmith;

conceiving, no doubt, that the murder of

a blacksmith would fall more lightly on the

salus reipubliæ, than that of a pedagogue. But I

have heard this greatly disputed; and it seems

now generally agreed, that one good horse-shoe

is worth about 2-1/4 Spital sermons.

 

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Page 4: OCR problems (l-1-I, 0-O)

Common OCR Problems

OCR commonly has trouble distinguishing between the similar characters. Some examples are:

• The digit '1' (one), the lowercase letter 'l' (ell), and the uppercase letter 'I'. Note that in some fonts the number one may look like I (like a small capital letter 'i').

• The digit '0' (zero), and the uppercase letter 'O'.

• Dashes & hyphens: Proofread these carefully–OCR'd text often has only one hyphen for an em-dash that should have two.

• Parentheses ( ) and curly braces { }. 

Watch out for these. Normally the context of the sentence is sufficient to determine which is the correct character, but be careful–often your mind will automatically 'correct' these as you are reading.

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Difference with expect text: Error

OCR:

And the meteor on the grave,

And the wisp on the morass;6

When the falling stars are shooting,

And the answer'd owls are hooting.

6[Manfred was done into Italian by a translator

"who was unable to find in the dictionaries . . .

any other signification of the 'wisp' of this line

than 'a bundle of straw."' Byron offered him

2OO francs if he would destroy the MS. He at

first refused, but finally signed the agree-

ment.--Life, p. 3l6, note.]

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And the meteor on the grave,

And the wisp on the morass;[6]

When the falling stars are shooting,

And the answer'd owls are hooting,

6 [Manfred was done into Italian by a translator

"who was unable to find in the dictionaries ...

any other signification of the 'wisp' of this line

than 'a bundle of straw.'" Byron offered him

200 francs if he would destroy the MS. He at

first refused, but finally signed the agreement.

--Life, p. 316, note.]

Error: There is a difference between your text and the expected one. The first point where the two texts differ is on line 1. You entered: [blank line]. Expected: And the meteor on the grave,

Em-dash: Start-of-line Em-dash Error

PROOFREAD: 1

And the meteor on the grave,

And the wisp on the morass;[6]

When the falling stars are shooting,

And the answer'd owls are hooting,

6 [Manfred was done into Italian by a translator

"who was unable to find in the dictionaries ...

any other signification of the 'wisp' of this line

than 'a bundle of straw.'" Byron offered him

200 francs if he would destroy the MS. He at

first refused, but finally signed the agreement.

--Life, p. 316, note.]

PROOFREAD: 2

 And the meteor on the grave,

And the wisp on the morass;[6]

When the falling stars are shooting,

And the answer'd owls are hooting,

6 [Manfred was done into Italian by a translator

"who was unable to find in the dictionaries ...

any other signification of the 'wisp' of this line

than 'a bundle of straw.'" Byron offered him

200 francs if he would destroy the MS. He at

first refused, but finally signed the agreement.--Life,

p. 316, note.] 

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Page 5: Footnotes

Footnotes/Endnotes

In the main text of the page, the character that marks a footnote location should be surrounded with square brackets ( [ and ] ) and placed next to the word [*] being footnoted or its punctuation mark. [*]

At the bottom of the page, place each footnote on a seperate line in order of appearance, with a blank line before each one.

Do not include any horizontal lines seperating the footnotes from the main text.

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Difference with expect text: Error

OCR:

when she discovered a new suitor, she had

recourse to a Rakshasa, who swallowed that

unhappy suitor wholeb. So Natabhrúkutí

looked towards the city wall, and she saw

Aja. And at the very first glance, she fell so

violently in love with him^c that she could

b This method of disposing of objectionable suit-ors

is unfortunately not available in Europe.

c Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Every Oriental would side with Shakspeare in

this matter: love, in the East, is not love, unless

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when she discovered a new suitor, she had

recourse to a Rákshasa, who swallowed that

unhappy suitor whole.[b] So Natabhrúkutí

looked towards the city wall, and she saw

Aja. And at the very first glance, she fell so

violently in love with him[c] that she could

b This method of disposing of objectionable suitors

is unfortunately not available in Europe.

c Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Every Oriental would side with Shakspeare in

this matter: love, in the East, is not love, unless

 

Error:  There is a difference between your text and the expected one. The first point where the two texts differ is on line 3. You entered: unhappy suitor whole.[b] So Natabhrúkutí. Expected: unhappy suitor whole [b] So Natabhrúkutí 

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when she discovered a new suitor, she had

recourse to a Rakshasa, who swallowed that

unhappy suitor whole [b] So Natabhrúkutí

looked towards the city wall, and she saw

Aja. And at the very first glance, she fell so

violently in love with him^c that she could

b This method of disposing of objectionable suit-ors

is unfortunately not available in Europe.

c Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Every Oriental would side with Shakspeare in

this matter: love, in the East, is not love, unless

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