[bksvol-discuss] Re: Cautionary note: -- careful header removal procedure
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:13:31 -0500
Yes, just start your replacements only from the beginning of the story,
not from page 1 of the physical file. Use copy/paste operations to enter
the clean or scrambled header in the 'find' field. This will ensure that
you include all junk chars, including eventual tabs, tildas and other
rubbish. Make sure the replacement field is truly blank and does not
contain space chars.
Guido Dante Corona
IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
Research Division,
Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Maybe I wasn't clear. I'll try again.
I have Word 98, but as I recall, it worked when I had
Word 97, too.
1. I'll copy a header, e.g., Robin Cook.
2. Then I open the Edit file and go down and open
Replace.
3. I get a screen with two spaces: Find What is the
first one, and I paste the Robin Cook heading in that.
It is not usually the same size font or type -- for
example, sometimes the headings are in italics and
always they're usually smaller than the author's name
on the title page or front cover.
4. I leave the Replace With space blank.
5. If i'm sure that the headings and the title and
cover pages are different, I hit Replace All, and the
headings disappear (I'm careful, of course, not to
include the page numbers when I''ve blackened the
heading.
6. If I'm not sure, I'l just do one replace, and then
go back to be sure that the title or author on the
title pages or cover havena't been changed. Then I'd
do a Replace all with the blank with the next heading
I come to.
The reason I used Guido's term of half-manual is
because sometimes I eliminate the headings manually as
I read, until I realize that I'm seeing a lot of the
same one, usually scrambled in some way, and then I
switch to the Replace With blanks.
Is that any clearer? I tend to be too wordy and not as
clear ad either Guido or Shelley, and I apologize. :-)
Cindy
-- siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Now I am totally confused and I thought I had it
> straight. What do you mean
> when you say half manually? And what do you coppy
> annd paste? For example,
> if Robin Cook is on every other page, and Abduction
> is on the alternate
> pages, what, exactly, would you do?
>
> Sue S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 12:09 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Cautionary note: --
> careful header removal
> procedure
>
>
> Very good instructions, Guido. Since I read as I
> validate, I do what you do, i.e., remove the headers
> half-manually and copy, paste the header into the
> replace space, and leave replace with blank. It's a
> Replace command in the Edit menu, as least in my
> Word,
> and not the Find command. Because the headers are
> usually corrupted, it doeshave to be done several
> times, because there are so many different forms of
> the headers, but it's a lot easier than dong every
> page manually. It's the copy and paste part that
> keeps
> it from replacing the title or author from the
> copyright and title pages, because those are usually
> either usually larger or in a different font, e.g.,
> ital or bold.
>
> I wish I were as good at explaining things clearly
> and
> in detail as you and Shelley, Guido. I used to be
> able
> to, when I was teaching. Maybe I haven't
> enough patience these days :-(
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
> --- Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Cindy and Mickey, depending on what tool you are
> > using, you may not be
> > able to use font changes as a qualifying filter
> for
> > a replace operation.
> > E.G. Kurzweil allows filters only for simple
> > searches, not for
> > search/replace.
> >
> > I often remove repeating headers at the top of
> > pages with Kurzweil
> > semimanually as follows:
> >
> > 1. Find the beginning of the actual authored text
> > of the book.
> >
> > 2. Page down until I find the very first header.
> > Does not matter if the
> > header is perfect or it is corrupted.
> >
> > 3. Select the text of the header--that is either
> > the book title or author
> > name only--and copy it to the clipboard. Note
> that
> > you should not include
> > the page number in the selection. For best result
> > select the header text
> > as follows:
> >
> > 3.1. If the text part of the header is to the
> left
> > of the page number,
> > place the cursor on the leftmost digit of the page
> > number and press
> > shift-ctrl-home. This will select the entire text
> > in the header including
> > any tabs, and junck chars which may be preceeding
> it
> > up to the position
> > immediately to the left of the cursor.
> >
> > 3.2. If the header is to the right of the page
> > number, place the cursor
> > immediately to the right of the rightmost digit
> and
> > press only shift-end.
> > This will select the text on the current line from
> > the cursor position to
> > the very end of the line.
> > Please note that if you pressed also the ctrl key
> > you would be selecting
> > the whole text to the very bitter end of the
> current
> > page.
> >
> > 4. Press ctrl-c to copy the selected text to the
> > clipboard.
> >
> > 5. open the copy/replace dialogue and paste the
> > text into the 'find' text
> > field with ctrl-v.
> >
> > 6. Leave the replacement text field completely
> > blank.
> >
> > 7. Specify matched case only.
> >
> > 8. Initiate a replace all operation or global
> > replacement. This will
> > remove all headers that match the specified string
> > exactly.
> >
> > 9. Press downarrow once. If the line below the
> > page number is not blank,
> > add a blank line.
> >
> > 10. Press page down. If you find a simple page
> > number just ensure it is
> > followed by a blank line.
> > If you find a full header, go to step 3 and start
> > the removal process all
> > over.
> >
> > 11. Continue these iterations starting with
> step
> > 1 until you have
> > reached the end of the book. This may take a
> little
> > while, but at the
> > end of the process you will have a book with page
> > numbers and no repeating
> > headers.
> >
> >
> >
> > Guido Dante Corona
> > IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> > Research Division,
> > Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
> > Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > [bksvol-discuss] Re: Cautionary note:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mickey,
> >
> > Since the fonts of the headings are usually
> > different
> > from that in the title and author pages, doing a
> > global replace shouldn't eliminate the those. If
> > you
> > check Match Case (in my replace one has to open
> More
> > and then Match Case shows up) it should be o.k.
> To
> > be
> > safe, you can enlarge the title and author's name
> if
> > they aren't already, but usually they are
> different,
> > either in larger font or something like bold or
> > italics.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> > -- mickey <micka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi. Don't forget that when we strip these nice
> > > headers and author's names,
> > > we strip the title at the beginning of the book
> > plus
> > > the author's name on
> > > the title page. On the book I'm working on, I
> need
> > > to go back to the
> > > step-two page to find out who the author is.
> > >
> > > Just thought I'd throw a reminder in.
> > >
> > > Mickey
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> --- Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Cindy and Mickey, depending on what tool you are
> > using, you may not be
> > able to use font changes as a qualifying filter
> for
> > a replace operation.
> > E.G. Kurzweil allows filters only for simple
> > searches, not for
> > search/replace.
> >
> > I often remove repeating headers at the top of
> > pages with Kurzweil
> > semimanually as follows:
> >
> > 1. Find the beginning of the actual authored text
> > of the book.
> >
> > 2. Page down until I find the very first header.
> > Does not matter if the
> > header is perfect or it is corrupted.
> >
> > 3. Select the text of the header--that is either
> > the book title or author
> > name only--and copy it to the clipboard. Note
> that
> > you should not include
> > the page number in the selection. For best result
> > select the header text
> > as follows:
> >
> > 3.1. If the text part of the header is to the
> left
> > of the page number,
> > place the cursor on the leftmost digit of the page
> > number and press
> > shift-ctrl-home. This will select the entire text
> > in the header including
> > any tabs, and junck chars which may be preceeding
> it
> > up to the position
> > immediately to the left of the cursor.
> >
> > 3.2. If the header is to the right of the page
> > number, place the cursor
> > immediately to the right of the rightmost digit
> and
> > press only shift-end.
> > This will select the text on the current line from
> > the cursor position to
> > the very end of the line.
> > Please note that if you pressed also the ctrl key
> > you would be selecting
> > the whole text to the very bitter end of the
> current
> > page.
> >
> > 4. Press ctrl-c to copy the selected text to the
> > clipboard.
> >
> > 5. open the copy/replace dialogue and paste the
> > text into the 'find' text
> > field with ctrl-v.
> >
> > 6. Leave the replacement text field completely
> > blank.
> >
> > 7. Specify matched case only.
> >
> > 8. Initiate a replace all operation or global
> > replacement. This will
> > remove all headers that match the specified string
> > exactly.
> >
> > 9. Press downarrow once. If the line below the
> > page number is not blank,
> > add a blank line.
> >
> > 10. Press page down. If you find a simple page
> > number just ensure it is
> > followed by a blank line.
> > If you find a full header, go to step 3 and start
> > the removal process all
> > over.
> >
> > 11. Continue these iterations starting with
> step
> > 1 until you have
> > reached the end of the book. This may take a
> little
> > while, but at the
> > end of the process you will have a book with page
> > numbers and no repeating
> > headers.
> >
> >
> >
> > Guido Dante Corona
> > IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> > Research Division,
> > Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
> > Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 04/07/2005 12:45 AM
> > Please respond to
> > bksvol-discuss
> >
> >
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> > Subject
> > [bksvol-discuss] Re: Cautionary note:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mickey,
> >
> > Since the fonts of the headings are usually
> > different
> > from that in the title and author pages, doing a
> > global replace shouldn't eliminate the those. If
> > you
> > check Match Case (in my replace one has to open
> More
> > and then Match Case shows up) it should be o.k.
> To
> > be
> > safe, you can enlarge the title and author's name
> if
> > they aren't already, but usually they are
> different,
> > either in larger font or something like bold or
> > italics.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> > -- mickey <micka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi. Don't forget that when we strip these nice
> > > headers and author's names,
> > > we strip the title at the beginning of the book
> > plus
> > > the author's name on
> > > the title page. On the book I'm working on, I
> need
> > > to go back to the
> > > step-two page to find out who the author is.
> > >
> > > Just thought I'd throw a reminder in.
> > >
> > > Mickey
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > No virus found in this outgoing message.
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> > > Date: 4/5/2005
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> > >
> > >
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