This is the page comparing two versions of Brittain's Ida. The version on the left-hand side of the page is from EEBO, and the version on the right-hand side is from a copy we downloaded from Google Books. Differences between the two texts will be shown in bold, colored text. We color any text in one pane which does not appear in the other pane.
A list of defects, areas for improvement, etc:
- The EEBO version has more headmatter, so alignment between the two parts is particularly bad. Ditto for the different amount of white space between the two texts. Careful reformating of each would make the alignment better.
- The Google version contains a fair number of OCR errors.
- The Google version seems to contain some modernized spelling, punctuation and capitalization, but it's hard to tell given the OCR errors.
- When the diff routine tokenizes text, it doesn't separate words from trailing punctuation. For example, in the A-to-B comparision, it thinks "a]" was deleted and "b]" was added, when really the "]" didn't change.
- It would be nice if corresponding parts of the left and right panes were vertically aligned, so that like parts were next to each other.
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