standardebooks / alain-rene-lesage_gil-blas_tobias-smollett Goto Github PK

There are a handful of æ ligatures throughout the book. These should be separated to ae, right?

A few examples:

• they took me for the coryphæus of the opera
• the canine amicus curiæ set his fangs
• Don Gæsar, who came backwards and forwards

While reading Gil Blas for quotation marks, I'm noticing some unrelated issues that might be OCR errors or similar. I prefer to log this kind of thing as issues in GitHub so I don't forget to come back to them later. GitHub doesn't allow issues on a fork of another project, so please forgive me for dropping these here in the main project. I'll come back to look at them more closely after finishing the quotation mark read-through. I'll update this comment with new entries as I find them.

chapter-8-9: Colon should be semi-colon?
"I shall be very much obliged to you," answered I: "your introduction is sufficient."

chapter-8-10: Comma should be period?
conquest of me by her prattle, I began to launch out

chapter-8-10: Colon should be semi-colon?
"I really am not in so merry a mood, madam," exclaimed I: "it is a plain matter

chapter-9-1: Colon should be semi-colon?
"This is not all," resumed Scipio: "Señor Gabriel hopes

chapter-9-3: Not sure about the combination of quotes, emphasis, and final period here. Is emphasis still needed when adding quotes? Is it weird to end this (apparently) shouted phrase with a period?
when fifteen or twenty men, some on foot and some on horseback, all with swords and firearms, surrounded and stopped the coach, crying out, "<em>In the name of our sovereign lord the king</em>."

chapter-9-6: "her" should be "he"?
"Don Gastón," cried her as he arrested my uplifted arm

chapter-9-7: Colon could be semi-colon?
neither household nor house," answered he: "to spare you