As a reader, I see why and agree with why you do this. I'm a little
confused about doing this as a validater though. Aren't we supposed
to leave the structure of the text as similar to the print book as
possible? I do fix a hyphenated word at the bottom of a page. For
students, if an instructor tells them to start on page 60 with the
word kangaroo, wouldn't it be confusing if we'd moved that word to
the previous page to finish the sentence before the page break? I'm
not trying to start a debate. I'm asking for clarification because I
thought we weren't supposed to modify the text structure.
Monica Willyard
Thanks for mentioning this, E.
I think it really does make a big difference not to have the sentences interrupted by the headers and page numbers. I too have been adjusting to see that the ends of pages end in complete sentences. I figure if I have to look for the hyphenated words at the end of pages, I may as well make the page end with a complete sentence. And as you say, this is ESPECIALLY important when there are footnotes at the bottom of the page. A reader can really get lost when the text of the page gets interrupted by a bunch of sentences in footnotes.
Although this is something we can do when validating, it would make me happy as a clam if the person who scanned the book and submitted it took the time and care to do this.
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