Three things come to mind which may help some, but may not completely solve the problem:
First, what if you do a search for a paragraph marker, followed by an apostrophe, followed by a space, and replace with a paragraph marker followed by just an apostrophe?
Secondly, since I am not aware of any circumstance where an apostrophe should have a space in front of it, what if you do a search for space followed by an apostrophe, and replace with just an apostrophe?
For the case of an apostrophe followed by a space, you might be able to create a dummy marker for all those instances of s followed by an apostrophe followed by a space, then do a search for an apostrophe followed by a space, and replace with just an apostrophe.
If I understand what you are saying here, it sounds as though those three things will solve the issue, although there may be other instances of the problem that these won't cover. Whatever the case, this should reduce the problem considerably. Always save your work before doing anything chancey.
HTH Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 3:28 PM 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 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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