PPV Checklist
From DPWiki
Post-Processing Verification Checklist
From this forum post: What PPVers Check For
Complete guidelines here: Post-Processing Verification Guidelines
Spellcheck errors and scannos
- Comma/period errors
- Gutcheck errors
- Jeebies errors
- Extraneous characters, such as ~ ` + = | \ » « < > / £
- Ellipses not formatted according to guidelines
- Ligature inconsistency
- Italic markup incorrectly placed relative to punctuation
- Inconsistently spaced initials
- Table of Contents not complete, or formatted inconsistently
- Chapter heading inconsistency (# blank lines before/after; inconsistently centered or left-justified; inconsistently capitalized; period missing at end of chapter heading or subheading)
- Footnotes/footnote markers missing or out of order
- Improper joining or separating of paragraphs at page break
- Hyphenated/non-hyphenated variants not addressed
- Hyphen/emdash confusion (i.e., hyphen used instead of emdash, or emdash used instead of hyphen)
- Em-dash incorrect length
- Text not rewrapped to required line length
- Rewrapping errors, e.g., rewrapped poetry
- Poetry indentation not preserved
- Markup (e.g., italic markup, blockquote/poetry indentation) removed
- Missing page(s)
- Printers' errors not addressed*
HTML-specific errors
- invalid HTML
- invalid CSS
- non-working links
- filenames not in lowercase
- images not in "images" directory
- images not optimized
- unused css not removed
- title tag not filled in correctly
- HTML Tidy-reported issues have not been addressed as necessary**
- Improper placement of pagenum markup, if a TOC or index in the project uses page numbers (otherwise, placement of pagenum markup is not important)
*Printers' errors should be addressed in one of the following ways:
- Correct silently
- Correct and note corrections in Transcriber's Note
- Leave uncorrected, and note errors in Transcriber's Note
**When using Tidy, use the report mode, but do not allow Tidy to alter your code; instead, look at the report and make changes to your code as necessary.
