[bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the download queue
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:37:35 -0700 (PDT)
Jackie, do you have a "Replace All?" I couldn't tell
from your post if you use Find and then replace the
names or words indvividually (which I do when
checking to see if the number one needs to be the
capital "i," so I won't change all the page numbers to
"i's"). I learned the hard way,though, that when one
does that one has to be sure to click "whole word," or
where a word i part of another word that gets changed,
too.
Cindy
--- "Jackie M." <xercon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> To add my two cents, I use find/replace for certain
> names that always get
> screwed up: I am reading a book by a Japanese
> author, and the intro.
> discusses his life, repeating his name every
> sentence or two. There were
> several aberrations of the name, so I searched for
> each aberration,
> replacing it with the correct name. I do that if
> the type of mistake is
> pretty consistent. Each time I come upon a new
> aberration, I search for it
> and replace it with the correct name. I don't tend
> to use the
> search/replace if I could be replacing the wrong
> things.
>
> - Jackie McCraw
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:15 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the
> download queue
>
>
> > Mike, it is also possible to validate using
> programs such as Word,
> WordPad,
> > NotePad, etc. I have a very old version of
> OpenBook which I find way too
> > cumbersome to use for validation purposes, and
> although I now have K1000,
> I
> > haven't even come close to figuring out all its
> eccentricities to be able
> to
> > use it adequately.
> >
> > All that to say that when I validate, or when I
> check a book before
> > submitting it for validation, I use Word. If the
> scan has been saved as
> an
> > RTF file, then you can check the page integrity by
> using the "page down"
> > command, "control-page down" to move from page to
> page. This will put you
> on
> > the first line of each page which could be either
> a page number (which
> > really makes it easy), or the junk header plus
> page number, which puts you
> > in place to remove the junk header and leave in
> the page number. If the
> > page numbers and/or book title/author's name
> appear as footers, then use
> the
> > "page down" command to put you at the top of the
> next page and then arrow
> up
> > a couple of times to find the footer, which will
> put you in place to check
> > the page number and/or strip out the junk footer.
> While it takes a while
> to
> > write this process out, once you get into the
> rhythm of checking this, it
> > really goes very quickly.
> >
> > You can also use spell check to check for errors.
> You can use the find
> > feature to locate consistent errors you've
> noticed, such as searching for
> > forward slashes that should be I's, or bam that
> really should be barn, or
> > the presence of junk characters such as at-signs
> or
> > less-thann's/greater-than's. If you're really,
> really careful, you can
> use
> > the find and replace to fix some of these things,
> but then you run the
> risk
> > of removing legitimate uses of some of these
> symbols.
> >
> > If you're interested in trying your hand at
> validation, just jump in and
> try
> > it. If you don't find yourself up to the task of
> the particular book
> you've
> > selected, then you can always release it and
> someone else will pick it up.
> > It is indeed tedious work, but an essential part
> of the process.
> >
> > Peace and Hope,
> >
> > Donna
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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