[bksvol-discuss] Re: Good-looking quotation marks
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:20:25 -0700
Hi, Christina, I don't think it does. At any rate, one of my pre-reading
procedures is to replace all smart quotes with the regular sort.
Regards, Kim.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christina
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 1:45 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Good-looking quotation marks
Hi, Kim.
If this is for proofreading, doesn't the Bookshare tool replace all the
smart quotes with regular ones now? Christina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:58 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Good-looking quotation marks
Hi, can anyone tell me how to make sure that regular quotations are
correct? Here's what I want. I wish opening quote marks to look like
they're supposed to look at the beginning of a conversation and closing
quotes to appear at the end. Sometimes when I'd be proofreading, I'd see
on my Braille display a mark at the end of a conversation that looks
exactly like the opening quotation mark in Braille. Is there any way I
can correct this? Keep in mind that before I start reading I've gotten
rid of all smart quotes. Thanks for the help. Regards, Kim Friedman.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Melissa Smith
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:14 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Issue
I've not come across your situation, so I don't know if this will work
or not. I'd probably try this on a test file first. There is a character
for whitespace, which is ^w which might get rid of the blank lines after
the page breaks.
Melissa Smith
On 4/18/2011 1:25 PM, Alyssa wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> Well, I have determined that some of the hard page breaks have two
> paragraph markers after them. Those I deleted in word by byping ^k^p^p
> into the find and replace box. Others have the page break followed by
> a blank line and then 2 paragraph markers. Unfortunately, I have no
> clue what the character is for deleting the blank lines.
>
> Still others are actually soft page breaks. LOL. I discovered this the
> more I got into the book last night. I changed the paper size but to
> no avail.
>
> Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks for your help!
>
>
> -Alyssa
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran
> Bailey
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:09 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Issue
>
> I had a case in which I had proofread a book in Open Book and when I
> converted it to RTF extra page breaks were inserted. I did not have
> Word and
>
> I was about to give up on it because I thought that I would have to
> proof it
>
> again line by line removing each extraneous page break. I finally hit
> on a solution. I was able to remove them in Wordpad. First, the most
> recent versions of JAWS will not read page breaks in Wordpad. I had to
> go back to an earlier version of JAWS that would. I think it was
> version 9. Then, noting that the extraneous page breaks were each
> right up against a character while the page breaks I wanted to keep
> had a blank line before and
>
> after them, I did a find and replace for each letter of the alphabet
> and every punctuation mark I could think of. I used the find function
> to find the character with a page break right affter it with no space.
> I replaced it
>
> with just the character and all the unwanted page breaks vanished. It
> took twenty-six operations for each letter of the alphabet and then
> more for the punctuation marks, but it was a lot easier than proofing
> the whole thing again.
>
>
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>
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>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alyssa"<lyssassong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:<bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:44 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Issue
>
>
>> Okay, so JAWS was being flaky. Apparently these are hard page breaks
>> after all! Not sure why it wasn't seeing them in that manner at
>> first, unless it had to do with blank lines I was able to get rid of.
>> Anyway, is there a method for removing blank pages in Kurzweil or MS
>> Word? I'm about to look for myself but wanted to ask here in case I
>> do not find anything. I realize that Bookshare wants them to be
>> there, but I believe it would be easier to insert them where
>> appropriate rather than arrowing through a file line by line in
>> search of the ones that do not belong.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -Alyssa
>>
>>
>>
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alyssa
>> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 11:29 PM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Page Issue
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I cannot tell what is going on with a book I am proofing at the
>> moment. The book appears to have double the amount of pages it
>> should. When I checked, it seems that before each hard page break,
>> there is something else which appears to be another type of break. I
>> am guessing that this may be a soft page break but do not know for
>> certain. If anyone else has seen this and knows more about what I am
>> referring to, please help me get rid of these in
>> one swoop. Otherwise, this is going to be a very tedious process.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -Alyssa
>>
>>
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