User:Solol/Fr Sandbox/Proofreading on the Page Level

Warning This is a draft of the revised proofreading guidelines. When proofreading at PGDP you should use the current proofreading guidelines located here.

Proofreading Guidelines
Proofreading Summary
Proofreading on the Character Level
Proofreading on the Paragraph Level
Proofreading on the Page Level
Miscellany
Common Problems
Index
Version TBAdded.

Blank Page

Commentaires, suggestions :

Most blank pages, or pages with an illustration but no text, will already be marked with [Blank Page]. Leave this marking as is. If the page is blank, and [Blank Page] does not appear, there is no need to add it.

If there is text in the proofreading text area and a blank image, or if there is text in the image but none in the text box, follow the directions for a Bad Image or Bad Text.

Front/Back Title Page

Commentaires, suggestions :

Proofread all the text just as it was printed on the page, whether all capitals, upper and lower case, etc., including the years of publication or copyright.

Older books often show the first letter as a large ornate graphic—proofread this as just the letter.

Original Image:
Correctly Proofread Text:
GREEN FANCY BY GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON AUTHOR OF "GRAUSTARK," "THE HOLLOW OF HER HAND," "THE PRINCE OF GRAUSTARK," ETC. WITH FRONTISPIECE BY C. ALLAN GILBERT NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1917

Table of Contents

Commentaires, suggestions :

Proofread the Table of Contents just as it is printed in the book, whether all capitals, upper and lower case, etc. If there are Small Capitals, see the guidelines for Small Capitals.

Ignore any periods or asterisks (leaders) used to align the page numbers. These will be removed later in the process.

Original Image:
Correctly Proofread Text:
CONTENTS CHAPTER                                         PAGE I. THE FIRST WAYFARER AND THE SECOND WAYFARER MEET AND PART ON THE HIGHWAY  ..... 1 II. THE FIRST WAYFARER LAYS HIS PACK ASIDE AND FALLS IN WITH FRIENDS  .... ... 15 III. MR. RUSHCROFT DISSOLVES, MR. JONES INTERVENES, AND TWO MEN RIDE AWAY      33 IV. AN EXTRAORDINARY CHAMBERMAID, A MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY, AND A MAN WHO SAID "THANK YOU"   50 V. THE FARM-BOY TELLS A GHASTLY STORY, AND AN IRISHMAN ENTERS  ..  .. 67 VI. CHARITY BEGINS FAR FROM HOME, AND A STROLL IN THE WILDWOOD FOLLOWS      85 VII. SPUN-GOLD HAIR, BLUE EYES, AND VARIOUS ENCOUNTERS  ...   103 VIII. A NOTE, SOME FANCIES, AND AN EXPEDITION IN QUEST OF FACTS  .. ,, 120 IX. THE FIRST WAYFARER, THE SECOND WAYFARER, AND THE SPIRIT OF CHIVALRY ASCENDANT   ,  134 X. THE PRISONER OF GREEN FANCY, AND THE LAMENT OF PETER THE CHAUFFEUR ...   ....148 XI. MR. SPROUSE ABANDONS LITERATURE AT AN EARLY HOUR IN THE MORNING ..  ...  , 167 XII. THE FIRST WAYFARER ACCEPTS AN INVITATION, AND MR. DILLINGFORD BELABORS A PROXY      183 XIII. THE SECOND WAYFARER RECEIVES TWO VISITORS AT MIDNIGHT  ,,,..  .... 199 XIV. A FLIGHT, A STONE-CUTTER'S SHED, AND A VOICE OUTSIDE   ,,,..  ...., 221

Indexes

Commentaires, suggestions :

You don't need to align the page numbers in index pages as they appear in the image; just make sure that the numbers and punctuation match the image and retain the line breaks.

Specific formatting of indexes will occur later in the process. The proofreader's job is to make sure that all the text and numbers are correct.

See also Multiple Columns.

Plays: Actor Names/Stage Directions

Commentaires, suggestions :

In dialog, treat a change in speaker as a new paragraph, with one blank line between.

Stage directions are kept as they are in the original image, so if the stage direction is on a line by itself, proofread it that way; if it is at the end of a line of dialog, leave it there. Stage directions often begin with an opening bracket and omit the closing bracket. This convention is retained; do not close the brackets.

Sometimes, especially in metrical plays, a word is split due to page-size constraints and placed above or below following a (, rather than having a line of its own. Please treat this like normal end-of-line hyphenation. See the example.

Please check the Project Comments, as the Project Manager may specify different handling.

Original Image:
Correctly Proofread Text:
Has not his name for nought, he will be trode upon: What says my Printer now? Clow. Here's your last Proof, Sir. You shall have perfect Books now in a twinkling. Lap. These marks are ugly. Clow. He says, Sir, they're proper: Blows should have marks, or else they are nothing worth. La. But why a Peel-crow here? Clow. I told 'em so Sir: A scare-crow had been better. Lap. How slave? look you, Sir, Did not I say, this Whirrit, and this Bob, Should be both Pica Roman. Clow. So said I, Sir, both Picked Romans, And he has made 'em Welch Bills, Indeed I know not what to make on 'em. Lap. Hay-day; a Souse, Italica? Clow. Yes, that may hold, Sir, Souse is a bona roba, so is Flops too.

Original Image:
Correctly Proofread Text:
Am. Sure you are fasting; Or not slept well to night; some dream (Ismena?) Ism. My dreams are like my thoughts, honest and innocent, Yours are unhappy; who are these that coast us? You told me the walk was private.