[bksvol-discuss] Re: British punctuation
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:12:53 -0700
Hi Sarah,
I can think of a couple of possible fixes. You can search for a new line
followed by an apostrophe followed by a space, and replace it with a new
line followed by an apostrophe. That would get rid of those apostrophes at
the beginning of lines followed by spaces.
As for apostrophes followed and preceded by spaces, you'd probably have to
do a find, not a find and replace, and look at each one to see where the
space should go, either before, or after the apostrophe. Not good if you're
trying to avoid repetitive tasks, I admit.
In case you don't know, though it sounds as though you do, the character
string denoting a new line, or paragraph mark in k1000 is \n, that is
backslash followed immediately by the lower case letter n.
I hope maybe some of this will help. Oh, yes, one more idea! You could do
a find and replace for space followed by apostrophe, followed by a paragraph
mark. And replace it with apostrophe followed by a paragraph mark. That'd
get rid of apostrophes preceded by spaces at the end of lines.
Good luck! Hope some of this helps!
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Van
Oosterwijck
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:28 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] British punctuation
I got a book from the library that I can't stand to proof read. I only
scanned a little bit of it, then I started to read to see if it was turning
out alright. It wasn't. It has apostrophes for quotes as is normal in most
British literature. The problem with that is that there are sometimes
spaces around the apostrophes. My synthesizer feels the need to read every
single one of them, which I can't stand. I also can't imagine how much pain
I'd be in if I tried to fix all of the spots where there is an improper
space by hand. I haven't been able to come up with an acceptable search and
replace method to fix it either. Does anyone have any ideas?
I was wondering if switching to a UK voice for eloquence would change it's
behavior to not read the apostrophes that are not surrounded by spaces, but
I don't seem to have it installed. Can anyone tell me if it would help. If
so, I will find my Kurzweil CD and remedy the situation.
That way I could at least see if there are few enough errors that I could
fix them by hand without getting a repetitive stress injury.
It's also not ideal how this book will look in braille once converted, but
I'm sure changing the punctuation is not acceptable, and who knows how a
person could inform the translation program that these are supposed to be
single quotes even though they are not within other quotation marks. I also
know that converting them to single quotes doesn't help at all.
Any suggestions, or should I just give up? I don't even know if the book is
interesting.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://curiousnetentity.com
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