Index talk:"Round the world." - Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt (IA roundworldletter00fogg 0).pdf

Typesetting

After going through the first third of so of this... In the intro, the author specifically "apologizes" that the typesetting of the rest of the book is really bad, explains (basically) that it was reprinted from the plates that had been used to originally print them in the newspaper. He's completely accurate. There are not only printed errata, but a lot of typographical errors, largely:

• commas and periods that are actually indistinguishable in the scan (very worn type)
• obvious spelling errors (where word is used repeatedly, and only differs once)
• fallen sorts (i.e. missing letters, where it is justified across... a "space" in the middle of the word the width of the missing letter where it physically fell out)

I probably haven't done this consistently so far, but imo whoever does this the second run through should make sure to a) just "fix" the pointing, for readabilty b) use {{SIC}} (not {{sic}}) on all of the other mistakes (i.e. fix it in a popup). Otherwise this is going to be very hard to read, since there are a lot of other words that actually are just spelled differently due to how old this is (saio-nara, etc.). Also, regarding the errata, they (desperately) need to all be inserted with {{SIC}} because they are really bad, many completely change the "sense" of the sentence. Jarnsax (talk) 20:06, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Harder to "fix" consistently, but there are also spots where the hyphen at the end of a line has fallen out (you can tell from the justification)... if it's hyphenated somewhere else, not at the end of a line, we should probably insert the missing hyphen (with {{SIC}}) for readability. Jarnsax (talk) 20:15, 1 May 2023 (UTC)