Hi Lori,
I can't find it now either. And the only way I could find to make it
work was to type three periods, let Word create the ellipses character,
then when I'm done, go back and do a find and replace with that
character in the find box, and three periods in the replace box. It
seems the autoformat only happens as you type, not upon opening a document.
I know there's a way to change this and make Word not create the
ellipses character when you type three periods, but I can't remember
how to do it now, and can't find it in the menus either.
Frustrating! But finding one and replacing all of them in the document
works. Guess it's something to do at the very end of proofreading.
I'm sorry. I wish my memory weren't so awful!
See how bad it is that I proofread primarily using Kurzweil? I'd know
this if I used Word more!
Again, I'm sorry!
I'll bet Melissa, or Judy knows how to fix this! So, so sorry!
Mayrie
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*From:* bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Lori Castner
*Sent:* Friday, April 08, 2011 9:46 AM
*To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Is the Braille Translator Messing Up
Ellipses?
Mayrie,
I've looked everywhere under autoCorrect and autoFormat to verify that I
have ellipses turned off. I can't find it anywhere.
I have Word 2002.
Lori C.
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Mayrie ReNae <mailto:mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
*To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:* Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:06 PM
*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Is the Braille Translator Messing Up
Ellipses?
Hi Evan,
I'm discovering messages in my folder of volunteer e-mails that I
never saw come in, so please forgive this very late answer to your
probably long forgotten note.
You ask about the ellipsis being inaccurately represented in brf
copies of Bookshare's books. One cause of this may be that the
proofreader didn't have the autoformatting feature of Word turned
off that changes all ellipsis typed as three periods into the
ellipsis character. If this is not turned off, when a person types
three periods, or unites three periods separated by spaces, the
resulting thing will be the ellipsis character, which the braille
translator as yet can't translate properly. So, all proofreaders
using Word need to turn off that autoformatting feature.
Hope that makes sense.
Mayrie
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*From:* bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *EVAN REESE
*Sent:* Sunday, September 12, 2010 8:33 PM
*To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Is the Braille Translator Messing Up
Ellipses?
I don't normally read books I've scanned after they get approved,
since I either read through them before submitting them, or I
scanned them for someone else that I myself didn't want to read, but
knew they would read through completely before checking them in.
Today though, I started reading a book that I didn't read when I
scanned it, but that Lissi thought I would like. In the brf version
of the book, I discovered that everywhere there is an ellipsis,
(three periods in a row without spaces, not the special character
ellipsis), the brf version of the file has not the three dot threes
that are supposed to be there, but just one dot three. I checked a
slightly older book that we did and found the same thing. I compared
the brf file I downloaded from Bookshare with the original file I
scanned, so there's no mistake. All the ellipses in the brf versions
are just one dot three.
I don't know how far back this goes. The book I originally
discovered this issue in was added to the collection on July 30,
2010. The slightly older book I checked which has the same problem
was added on April 16, 2010; so it's been going on for at least
several months, unless it's been fixed since July 30. I'm sure that
the brf versions used to have the ellipsis correct, but at some
point it seems that a bug was introduced.
Evan
