Trackers/typesetters.suspects

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This page is based on one user’s observations. Some of the descriptions are undoubtedly incomplete, if not inaccurate. Please feel free to correct this.

Description

This tracker modifies the output document by adding colored background to suspect characters. Using it, a quick scan of the document may show these suspects.

  • Required spaces (such as generated by ~) are highlighted with orange
  • Paragraph-terminating . ? ! and : are highlighted with blue, even if followed by a footnote index. However, there is no highlight for a paragraph-terminating ) or ], and no highlighting for the preceding . ? ! or :.
  • Quotation ending punctuation inside the closing quotation mark is highlighted with blue.
  • Prime (') followed by space is highlighted with maroon.
  • Close single quotation marks (’) when preceded by space are highlighted by maroon.
  • Right-facing guillemets (») when preceded by space (as in some German usage) are highlighted by maroon.
  • The italic character in an upright/italic transition is highlighted with green.
  • The smallcap character in a smallcap/nonsmallcap transition is highlighted with green. (There is no highlight for a smallcap/punctuation transition.)
  • Less-commmon punctuation marks (… / @ & and others) are highlighted with blue.
  • Some punctuation marks when not followed by whitespace (. · , : and others) is highlighted with blue.
  • a digit preceding a comma in the index is highlighted with green.
  • a final-form letter followed by another letter is highlighted in green (seen with ς, not otherwise tested).