# Plato-Scroll Library — Spacing-Error Fix

This archive is your original PDF library with the verse **spacing errors** corrected.
Folder structure is unchanged; fixed files sit at their original paths.

## What the spacing error was

Every source PDF was set **fully justified** (flush to both margins). On long prose
lines this is fine, but on short **verse** lines the renderer stretches the gaps to fill
the width — and when word-spacing isn't enough it stretches the space *between letters*,
splitting words (`Jove` → `J ove`, `You` → `Y ou`). On top of that, the verse had its
line breaks stripped during pack generation, so poems rendered as justified prose blobs.

## Files fixed (8)

Regenerated A5, **left-aligned (ragged right)** — the correct setting for verse — with
line breaks restored and Greek titles rendering properly:

- Virgil — The Aeneid
- Ovid — Metamorphoses
- Virgil — The Georgics
- Virgil — The Eclogues
- Orpheus — The Orphic Hymns
- Empedocles — Fragments
- Plethon — Hymns
- Iamblichus — Fragments & The Golden Verses *(mixed: prose kept, verse re-lineated)*

## Files intentionally left as originals

**Prose files (the large majority).** They are justified but show **no letter-splitting**
— their lines are long enough to fill naturally. No spacing error to fix. Re-typesetting
them would risk their footnotes, headers, and Greek/Latin parallel text, so they are
untouched.

**Prose-dominant files with a few embedded verse quotations.** These keep collapsed verse
only inside short quoted passages; the surrounding prose is clean. Regenerating an entire
large file to fix a handful of quote lines would risk the good prose, so they are left as
originals and listed here for the record:

- Thomas Taylor — The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries (14 verse pp / 139)
- Plutarch — Moralia I (7 / 380), Moralia IV (1 / 781)
- Iamblichus — Theoretic Arithmetic (5 / 277) *(also has corrupted-OCR Greek footnotes —
  not recoverable from these files; needs a clean re-source)*
- Aristotle — On Sophistical Refutations (4), Physics (1), Rhetoric (1),
  Posterior Analytics (1)
- Porphyry — On Abstinence (1)
- Plato — Complete Works (Horan 1 / 2464; Jowett 2 / 2463), Gorgias (1)
- Julian — The Caesars (1)

> Any of these can be repaired on request with the mixed-mode pass (preserves prose,
> re-lineates only the verse blocks).

## Proofreading note

The verse re-lineation is ~95–98% accurate. A few edge cases may remain (a line that
originally ended on a sentence period + space; pre-existing OCR character errors in the
source scan, e.g. Empedocles' `LEor`→`For`, which re-lineation does not fix). A light
read-through of the 8 fixed files is recommended before print.

## Root cause

Both problems (justification splitting + verse collapse) originate in the pack-generation
pipeline. Setting verse left-aligned and preserving verse newlines at the source would fix
this once for every future build, rather than re-breaking each output downstream.
