Grace,
Based on her message, I'd guess that Elizabeth is referring to the Hard
Returns that OCR software sometimes puts at the end of lines. I'm not
sure
if this is caused by a setting for maintaining the text as it appears in
the
book or if the software is confusing the amount of whitespace between
lines
to mean that each line is a separate paragraph when it's actually not.
No matter what the cause is, the resulting scan contains a Hard Return at
the end of each line. By Hard Return I mean the character that Word
refers
to as a Paragraph Marker and other software refers to as a Newline
character
(\n or /n). In any case, the character is the ASCII character 13.
It's easy to spot this problem with speech because skimming by paragraph
doesn't work properly. For example, hitting the Right Shift key when
reading with Say All in JAWS while the Say All option is set to Paragraph
will only skip to the next line, not the next paragraph as it appears in
the
text since the Hard Return specifies that the character following the Hard
Return in the file begins a new paragraph.
Another way to tell in most software packages if the Hard Return is
present
is by using Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down to navigate the document. This normally
moves you to the beginning of a paragraph in the direction specified by
the
Up and Down arrows.
Another way to locate the problem in Word is to remove whitespace at the
end
of lines by replacing ^w^p with ^p then doing a search for ^$^p or ,^p
(Comma^p). This won't locate them all but it will find most, if not all,
of
the lines with this issue. the first will find paragraphs which end a
letter, and the second will find paragraphs which end in a comma. I like
to
do this search when validating a book because there's always a few
instances
where a paragraph has a Hard Return in the middle of it.
Also, if the problem occurs at the end of every line, and paragraphs can
be
identified by either a blank line between them or a tab or spaces at the
beginning, then some careful global finds and replaces can often fix the
problem.
I believe I have the steps written down for Word in a previous message if
anyone is interested along with a message which Kelly wrote describing how
to fix the problem using K-1000 or a BN.
I agree with E that this issue is very annoying to those of us who like to
skim favorite books using speech, but I don't know that I would mark the
quality lower if this is the only problem.
HTH
Gerald
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Silvara
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 4:32 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A Breath of Cold and Ashes
E:
This will sound stupid, but can you explain what you mean by line feeds?
And if you're using speech to read how do you know if they're there?
----- Original Message -----
From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:30 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A Breath of Cold and Ashes
I have no idea. How do so many books get rated as excellent and prove not
to be. I do not excellent takes into account extra hard returns which do
not appear at the ends of sentences but are put in at ends of lines.
Makes
stuff messy for folks who download but do not validate and makes bookshare
come across as creating shoddy stuff.
E.
At 11:19 AM 3/28/2006, you wrote:
First of all, I want to thank everyone who uses their time and talent to
scan and prepare the books for us to read.
My question is if there is such a problem with the book scan, then how
did it get to the actual reading list with such an excellent rating?
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
by
Diana Gabaldon
Quality:
Excellent, almost no errors.
Language:
English
Synopsis:
The sixth Outlander novel follows Jamie Fraser and his time-traveling
wife
Claire in their heart-stopping adventures.
Copyright Date:
2005
Available Formats:
BRF DAISY
Membership required for download (Copyrighted)
do people still go over the books that have been posted to the read-me
download site? I am confused. Please help.
Nancy
At 12:18 AM 3/28/2006, E. wrote:
Someone with the print copy may want to figure out how to fix up this
book. What a shame it has so many linefeeds and errors and was scanned
so recently too!!!
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