[bksvol-discuss] Re: For Valerie - how to replace incorrect paragraph marks that are at the end of every line in an entire document
- From: "Valerie Maples" <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:54:27 -0500
I *really* appreciate all the great replies and assistance from so many
people It looks like Judy's solution is what I need although several others
will work as well. I will try and work on it tonight and report my success.
Thanks everyone!
Valerie
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] For Valerie - how to replace incorrect
> paragraph marks that are at the end of every line in an entire document
>
> Hi Valerie,
>
> I wrote this up a little while back as one alternative in the
> proofreading instructions in the volunteer manual, but it hasn't
> been added to the volunteer manual yet. Smile. The following
> has been tested by several bookshare volunteers, however, and
> works correctly for exactly your situation.
>
> Give it a try! smile.
>
> Judy s.
>
> How to Remove any extra carriage returns inadvertently inserted
> by OCR:
>
> This involves using the find and replace command in a special way
> that uses what are called wildcards.
>
> Before you begin, you want to ensure that you do not lose the
> blank lines at the tops of pages. Simply go to the beginning of
> the book, or to the beginning of the text if you are sure the
> preliminary pages are in excellent condition and do the following:
>
> In the find box, enter ^p^p
> In the replace box enter two instances of a character that is not
> likely to appear in the book. A good choice is $$, that is
> dollar dollar.
> Then execute a "replace all."
> Next, in the find box, enter ^m^p
> In the replace box enter two instances of a new unique character
> that is not likely to appear in the book. A good choice is %%,
> that is, percent percent. Just make sure it is not the same
> character that you just chose in the previous step.
> Then execute a "replace all."
>
> Now, replace all the remaining paragraph marks in the entire book
> temporarily.
> In the find box, enter ^p
> In the replace box enter ~ , that is a tilde
>
> Now you are going to look for paragraph marks that shouldn't be
> there. To do this, you use a special kind of search, using the
> "use wildcards" box in the find and replace dialogue. In the
> Find and Replace dialogue box, click on the button that is
> mareked "More." This will expand the options that are available
> in the Find and Replace box to include a new list of Search
> Options. In the list of Search Options, check the box for "use
> wildcards" (you can also do this while in the Search box by
> typing alt U, which is alt "capital U)
> Next, in the find box, enter ~([a-z]) that is tilde
> left-parentheses left-square-bracket lowercase-a hyphen
> lowercase-z right-square-bracket right-parentheses
> In the replace box, enter \1 that is space backslash numeral one
> Then execute a "replace all."
>
> Now you will undo the search and replace you used to preserve the
> blank lines, and restore them.
> First, make sure you uncheck the use wildcards box in the find
> and replace dialogue. You don't want it to remain checked because
> it will affect other searches you will make later.
>
> In the find box, enter: ~ , that is a tilde
> In the replace box enter: ^p
> Execute "replace all."
> In the find box, enter $$ (or whatever other character you used
> to take the place of your blank lines)
> In the replace box, enter ^p^p
> Execute "replace all."
> Now you will undo the search and replace you used to preserve
> page breaks and the blank space after them and restore them.
> In the find box, enter %% (or whatever other character you used
> to take the place of your blank lines)
> In the replace box, enter ^m^p.
> Execute "replace all."
>
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