User:Gorok/PP/Checklist/Word-Frequency Checks

Open the Word Frequency report.

• Set the Frq switch; click All Words. List is now sorted by word frequency; scroll to the end and skim up the list of words that only appear 1 time looking for oddities and obvious misspellings.
• Click Character Cnts.
  • note characters that appear only once, check usage.
  • check for equal counts of left & right parens and brackets.
• Set the Alph switch; click All Words. Scroll to the word Footnote and write down count for later use. (If the count is large, click once on Footnote and click 1st Harm. The harmonic window shows you any of the common misspellings of "Footnote" that occur.)
• Click Emdashes. This shows words with emdashes in them as well as similar words without emdashes (aka: suspects) marked with ****. Check suspects against the text and page images. Preserve author's intent even when inconsistent. Hint: Enable the Suspects flag and click Emdashes again to see only suspects words.
• Click Hyphens. Same as Emdashes above but for Hyphens.
• Click Alpha/num. Scan list for one/ell and oh/zero errors.
• Click ALL CAPS. Scan list looking for oddities.
• Click MiXeD CasE. Scan list looking for letters such as o that sometimes OCR wrongly as uppercase. Oh/zero errors can show up here, too.
• Click Check Accents. Scan list looking for mistakes, inconsistent usages.
• Click Check , Upper. Scan list for comma-for-period errors.
• Click Check . Lower. Scan list for period-for-comma errors.