Part 3

Chapter Headers

Leave chapter headers in the text. A chapter header may start a bit farther down the page than the page header and won't have the page numbers on the same line. Chapter Headers are often printed all caps; if so, keep them as all caps.

Put 4 blank lines before the "CHAPTER XXX". (Include these blank lines even if the chapter starts on a new page; there are no 'pages' in an e-book, so the blank lines are needed.) Then leave 1 blank line between each additional part of the chapter header, such as a chapter description, opening quote, etc., and finally leave 2 blank lines before the start of the text of the chapter.

Old books often printed the first word or two of every chapter in all caps, sometimes even the first word or two of every paragraph; change these to upper and lower case (first letter only capitalized).

Watch out for a missing double quote at the start of the first paragraph, which some publishers did not include or which the OCR missed due to a large capital in the original. If the author started the paragraph with dialog, insert the double quote, even if the publisher left it out or used a large capital instead.

Punctuation characters

In general, there is no space before punctuation characters (except the opening quote). Books typeset in the 1700's & 1800's often had a partial space inserted before punctuation such as a semicolon or comma. If scanned text has a space before punctuation, remove it.