This is probably peripheral to the discussion on Emdash / Endash and Legacy FT's clean-up abilities.
One source of information that I use a lot is from digitized (Australian) newspapers, at Trove<http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/>. The OCR text usually requires correction (human recognition) and that includes changing Emdash to hyphen, inserting spaces, concatenating hyphenated words, etc etc. But a simple Copy then Paste into a Notes field in Legacy isn't an option for me. Stripping the HTML doesn't improve the situation - but that's fine by me. Routinely, I paste into a plain-text editor set up in a simple Encoding (for PC of course) - using an Encoding like Unicode BOM is asking for trouble, I have found. Then, I create accurate text but sometimes leave it in newspaper column format - or, make it more readable in continuous-text paragraphs. This process is much lengthier than just changing a few single-symbol bits like an Emdash. But I have seen the 'conversion' by Legacy to '97' which is why I adopted the method described. I find it has a benefit - I read more attentively, and understand better. Some of the articles - and even common-place advertisements - are fascinating. >From Trove, an image or PDF file at a selectable range of resolutions can be >saved to disk, so the scanned source imagery is available and can be attached >to Legacy as a media file, if warranted. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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