A rather annoying side effect of scanning a typed document and converting it to text
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It was my intention to provide you with a guide to style guides. It’s a manual I wrote some years ago. I came across the printout, and scanned it and then processed it using OCR — optical character recognition. Unfortunately, the resulting document has lost its formatting, and acquired a load of gobbledegook.
Still, some of the text is readable, so it might be of some use. I hope so. In any case, it goes to illustrate something we all knew: technology is not a reliable friend!
If I come across the original document as a digital file, I’ll publish it here.
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