[bksvol-discuss] Re: Finding Soft Hyphens
- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:07:19 -0500
Hi Lora.
I agree with Mayrie.
Careful scanners are worth their weight in gold. Those who care enough to
even ask whether or not they should send back the book because of the time
it will take are rarer still. Please take your time.
As far as the soft hyphens are concerned, I am a little puzzled. Soft
hyphens are usually thrown in by a software product such as Microsoft word,
to indicate that a hyphen would be inserted based on your line and page
settings. It doesn't mean a hyphen has been inserted. Try increasing your
line length and page length and see if they disappear, or move. If not, then
let us know, because they may be something else posing as a soft hyphen.
Just my opinion.
Bob
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From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:33 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Finding Soft Hyphens
Hi Lora,
It is just my opinion, but I think that any book that will be
handled by a person willing to read it through is well worth waiting for.
We will all benefit from your reading it through, and as you can renew the
book as many times as you need to do that, time is really of no
importance. So, enjoy the book, in my opinion, take your time, and be
proud of the beautifully edited book that we all using the Bookshare
collection will thank you for. A careful validator is worth several lazy
ones, in my opinion, and to be terribly cliche, "haste makes waste." So,
take your time, and I, at least, thank you for your work.
Peace,
Mayrie
At 04:09 PM 3/16/2008, you wrote:
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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