{"id":808,"date":"2010-04-01T20:09:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T01:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/?p=808"},"modified":"2013-07-16T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:16:14","slug":"hyphenation-in-stanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/hyphenation-in-stanza\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyphenation in Stanza"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stanza.app:<\/a>
\nOkay! I’ve got basically one month left in which to do my thesis project, so I’m thinking I should try to blog about a little something every day, to force myself to process some of this stuff. Perhaps call it BroTheBloPoMo\u2014Brooklyn Thesis Blog Post Month.
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\nWhat have I been up to? Well, unless you count reading a lot of trashy novels as e-books<\/em>, not a whole hell of a lot. But, man, I am rocking the e-book\u2013reading.<\/p>\n

It’s not entirely not<\/em> research. For one thing, I’ve been learning an awful lot about the hyphenation rules in Stanza<\/a>. They suck<\/em>. Every time I see what would be counted as an unacceptable break in a dead-tree American trade book, I note it in an annotation. Stanza then lets me view a list of all my annotations, from which I can jump to each offending passage. I’ve also been marking misspellings, logic errors, and infelicitous organization of material (e.g., loading the front of an e-book with tons of sales crap\u2014I’ve already bought the book; just get to the text, please), but those are editorial issues rather than technological ones.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Some typical composition errors seen in Stanza (not all of which, especially in the last column, are Stanza’s fault):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Multiple punctuation marks<\/th>\nWord division<\/th>\nBroken compounds <\/th>\nMiscellaneous weirdness<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
you?
\n\u201d he<\/td>\n		again-
\n st<\/td>\n		gauntlet\u2014some-
\n thing<\/td>\n		father\u2014-
\n passed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cathedral
\n\u2014\u201d<\/td>\n		the-
\n se<\/td>\n		gentle-
\nmen\u2014who<\/td>\n		me\u2014-
\n turn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
have
\n\u2014?\u201d<\/td>\n		S-
\n tay<\/td>\n		Indian\u2014ob-
\ntained<\/td>\n		people\u2014 the<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
boy?
\n \u201d<\/td>\n		bare-ch-
\n ested<\/td>\n		hard-
\n ness\u2014feel<\/td>\n		average\u2014 of<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
they?
\n\u201d<\/td>\n		S-
\n tarling<\/td>\n		German\u2014some-
\n thing<\/td>\n		anyway\u2014 neither<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
it?
\n \u201d<\/td>\n		respon-
\nse<\/td>\n		mar-
\n riage\u2014or<\/td>\n		life\u2014 touring<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
it?
\n \u201d Jasper<\/td>\n		ch-
\n in<\/td>\n		cof-
\n fee-brown<\/td>\n		this\u2014 they<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
then?
\n\u201d<\/td>\n		six-
\n th<\/td>\n		Ex-
\n cept\u201d\u2014she<\/td>\n		them\u2014 as<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
him?
\n \u201d Rebecca<\/td>\n		ch-
\n estnut<\/td>\n		ill-re-
\npute<\/td>\n		too\u2014 she<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
down?
\n \u201d<\/td>\n		Sh-
\n effield<\/td>\n		self-con-
\n scious<\/td>\n		him\u2014 where<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201c\u2014
\n he<\/td>\n		ch-
\n intz<\/td>\n		old-fash-
\n ioned<\/td>\n		too\u2014 a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
him?
\n \u201d he<\/td>\n		ch-
\n in<\/td>\n		rose-be-
\n decked<\/td>\n		encouragingly\u2014 and<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nmodis-
\n tes<\/td>\n		sweet-na-
\n tured<\/td>\n		so\u2014 she<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\non-
\n ce<\/td>\n		twen-
\n ty-seven<\/td>\n		circle\u2014 the<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\ns-
\n pars<\/td>\n		Ex-
\n pensive-looking<\/td>\n		referred\u2014 she<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nch-
\n intzy<\/td>\n		heavy-lid
\n ded<\/td>\n		now- predictable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\no\u2019-
\n clock<\/td>\n		like-
\n ly-looking<\/td>\n		cleft-\u2014\u201cI\u2019ll<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nchild\u2014y-
\n our<\/td>\n		late-sum-
\n mer<\/td>\n		large\u2014 He<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nper-
\n ch<\/td>\n		wa-
\n ter-filled<\/td>\n		for-sake<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nseven-
\n th<\/td>\n		morn-
\n ing-room<\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nre-
\n al<\/td>\n		four-
\n teen-year-old<\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nprince\u2014n-
\n ever<\/td>\n		stir-
\n rer-up<\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nbelowstairs\u2014k-
\n itchens<\/td>\n		it-
\n self\u2014it<\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nchampag-
\n ne<\/td>\n		well-be-
\n ing<\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nTh-
\n ese<\/td>\n		it\u2014ex-
\n cessively<\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nyou\u2014n-
\n ever<\/td>\n		coun-
\n try-bred<\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nurns\u2014w-
\n ere<\/td>\n		moth-
\n er-in-law<\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nthe-
\n se<\/td>\n		John-the-Bap-
\n tist<\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

You get the idea. These are from multiple books, but many of the nastiest breaks\u2014ch-in, ch-est, again-st, the-se, on-ce, n-ever\u2014appear over and over again. Stanza’s still my e-reader application of choice, but that’s mostly because it’s so easy to download my Fictionwise<\/a> bookshelf into it. I’ve been buying my e-books almost exclusively from Fictionwise, so that’s key.<\/p>\n

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