[bksvol-discuss] Re: Finding Soft Hyphens
- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:15:26 -0600
Thanks. I tried your suggestion, but I've still got those soft hyphens all
over the place.
I've read the first several pages, and am making several corrections per
page. I'll see how this goes, but it looks like slow going, so I may finish
a few other projects first.
Anyone know which number a j looks like?
Thanks,
Lora
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kathy Hester
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 6:15 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Finding Soft Hyphens
Do you have Microsoft Word? If so, before you open the book in it, go to
the format menu and enter on paragraphs. Go to the tabs tab and make sure
the checkbox is fixed for it not to automatically hyphenate. I think it
says don't hyphenate checkbox. If so, you want it checked. If it just says
hyphenate, don't check it. I don't know whether that will fix it or not,
but I think it might. I'm relatively new at validating. I've been doing it
about two weeks now.
As for the book, if you like it and enjoy reading it, you can renew it when
your time runs out. However, whether you want to, I don't know!
Kathy
----- Original Message -----
From: Lora <mailto:loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 6:09 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Finding Soft Hyphens
I'm validating a book that has numerous words broken up by soft hyphens.
I'd like to fix these, especially because they're not words at the end of
lines or pages, just random words in the middle of various lines. I tried
selecting the soft hyphen, and copying it into the Find box so I could
locate other occurrences, but it won't copy and paste. Is there an easy way
to find this soft hyphen?
This book poses another problem. There are lots of the common scanos in it.
For instance, 1 for I, rime for time, etc. I've fixed the ones I found as I
skimmed the book, but many of these won't register in the spell checker. I
suppose it means I should read them through. The real tricky one is "me"
for "the." I suspect, if the OCR did that, it did some other funky stuff
for the letters th. This is a long book. It's Buddhism in Action.
Knowing I can be a slow validator, should I return it, or take the time to
read through it. I'm interested in the book, and will gladly read it cover
to cover, but at over 400 pages, this could take me a while. The scan is
generally excellent, but there are lots of these little OCR quirks.
Advice is welcome.
Thanks,
Lora
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