Patricia, If the OCR software has problems determining how much space is between two letters or two words, then it can run words together or split a word into two words. Words also get run together sometimes when the OCR software is unable to recognize a hyphen in a hyphenated word and leaves it out. The random hyphens may be caused by the OCR software not maintaining an exact copy of the text. If the OCR software does not place a carriage return at the end of each line on a page, then words which are hyphenated because they fall at the end of a line and are then continued on the next line can end up on the same line separated by the hyphen and the whitespace that the OCR puts at the end of the line to prevent the last word on a line and the first word of the next line from being run together. Gerald -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Patricia Kepler Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 7:47 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A Comment on the Analogy I am currently proofing Because He Could, and there are many words that are randomly separated by spaces, as well as several random hyphens in the book. It could be someones strange editing style but I really don't think so. I have never seen the random hyphens before. There is also a high amount of words ran together without any spacing. Patricia