[bksvol-discuss] Re: Openbook users
- From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:18:48 -0500
All of our correction dictionaries as I understand them are a
product of users who have found mistakes and added them for later
corrections. So if a volunteer sends 75 contributions for a
correction list and 1 of them turns out to be bad, it
unfortunately reflects on the producer of the software.
I use K1000 and have added many entries to my corrections file -
many of them are worth sharing, but time has shown me some are
not, but this is not the fault of K1000 or OpenBook.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edwards, Paul" <pedwards@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:54 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Openbook users
That is actually an artifact of the scan. You need to adjust the
blightness setting because it is seeing the m as an r and an n
separated. I am sure you know this but usually some adjustment
makes it go away.
Paul
Paul Edwards, Director
Access Services, North Campus
Phone: (305) 237-1146
Fax: (305-237-1831
TTY: (305) 237-1413
Email: pedwards@xxxxxxxx
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-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Goodin [mailto:goodindo@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:30 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Openbook users
Hi all,
On a rather amusing related note, Openbook isn't the only
software with
this problem. I submitted the book Catering to Nobody by Diane
Mott
Daavidson last fall, which I'd scanned with Kurzweil. When I
finally got
around to reading the book myself this spring, I found the
following, well,
interesting error. There is a character in the book named
Pomeroy, who is
called Pom for short. Guess you can see where this goes.
Pomeroy came out
just fine, but throughout the text the guy is called Porn,
whenever his
nickname is used. *grin*
Take care,
Donna
----- Original Message -----
From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:01 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Openbook users
> Hi to all the Openbook users,
>
> I would like to request that you go into your spelling
corrections
> dictionary, and delete com becomes corn. I'm not sure at all
who the one
> was that originally decided to put it in the corrections
dictionary, but I
> believe it was ill advised. I am very tired of reading about:
accornpany,
> becornes, cornpanies, cornmanders, etc. I can't conceive of
why they did
> this, especially when you consider all the words with com in
them, as
> opposed to corn.
> Another word in the dictionary that could use attention is tom
becomes
> torn. I guess the people at Freedom Scientific have a very low
opinion of
> the success rate in recognizing o m combos, or should I say
cornbos. If
> the Openbook users don't want to do away altogether with the
tom becomes
> torn, they can at least make it a case sensitive search. This
would then
> preclude our creating a whole new group of people with very
sheik names
> like Torn Bradley, Torn Miller, Torn Smith, etc.
> Being an Openbook user myself, I have already ditched the corn
one, and at
> least for a while I'll try the torn as a case sensitive
conversion.
> Thank you for reading, or should I say listening to / feeling,
my ranting.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
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