Review-miscellaneous

[vr8hub]

• [x] I believe the line of stars in the Oct 21st entry in the second preface are for elision rather than a thematic break. (I might could be talked out of that, but that's what it looks like to me.) If so, then we should use a vertical elision character rather than a thematic break. The character (see 7.5.7) is ⋮ (U+22EE), and it should be centered. You can just put it in a <p> and then target it in CSS with an "nth-child" or "nth-of-type".
• [x] We only use 2em dashes for occlusion, not for interruption (8.7.7.7.2). The ones in chapters 5 and 40 should be single em-dashes.
• [x] The first two "Modernize" commits should be re-worded (and could be merged). The results of se modernize-spelling is doing both hyphenation and spelling (see the commit message at the end of step 14 of the Step-by-Step), so the first message should match that message. The second commit is merely the "manual" part of modernizing spelling and doesn't need a separate commit (again, per step 14). It's not a big deal that it is separate, but since it's not impacting hyphenation at all, and it is impacting spelling, the message should be "…Modernize spelling" if it stays separate. The third Modernize commit should have the same rewording as the first one.
• [x] We have asked Alex about "worth while" multiple times, and he's always said leave it. If we ever change it in the future, we'll have to update the entire corpus, as it's all over the place. That commit should be removed or reverted.

[bob-reus]

After asking about the line of stars in the mail thread (here), I checked the original French publications of the Goncourt's diaries. It seems that the entries in this preface weren't included. I also checked other editions of Germinie Lacerteux (in French and English), but none include the second preface. I'll gladly replace the thematic break with vertical elision, as I do think the <hr> is distracting and confusing, but there's no stronger argument for it than for the other options.

[vr8hub]

Ah, my bad, I didn't see you'd asked about that. OK, you can leave it.