[bksvol-discuss] Re: Proofreader's Checklist -- send me your ideas
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:40:07 -0700
Hi Emily!
Welcome to the list and to volunteering! I hope you have as much
fun with volunteering for Bookshare as I do! I love books, love reading, so
this is just wonderful for me! I hope you have a similar experience!
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Emily Harrison
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Just want to say, I'm so grateful for topics like this. I'm a beginning
proofreader, and it's nice to know certain things I should look out for.
Being a sighted volunteer, I want to produce the best possible proof for
anyone who reads the books I work on, but I don't always know how the
finished product will read for those who download it. Please continue
posting with tips such as these, as they're really helpful for us
volunteers! Thank you!
Emily
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Alyssa <LyssasSong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I connect them. I'm a transcriber, and that was one thing mentioned
in NLS's
manual. There should not be any words split between pages.
-Alyssa
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Denise
Wagner
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 9:17 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Proofreader's Checklist -- send me
your ideas
No, Mayrie, you explained it perfectly!
Actually, that leads me to something I want to confirm. I learned
from
another site I had volunteered for that if a page is ended with a
hyphenated
word (optional hyphen), then that word should not be split, but
completed on
one of the two pages. Is that correct on Bookshare? I hope so,
because
that's what I've been doing:-)
Denise
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ReNae
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 8:58 PM
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Hi Denise,
I think the optional hyphen is the hyphen that appears at the
end of
a line of text in the print book, but since when you OCR the lines
aren't
the same length as they were in the printed book necessarily, those
remaining hyphens from the printed text in the book are optional.
Does that
make sense? I feel like I've botched that description somehow.
Mayrie
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Wagner
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What's an optional hyphen!
Denise
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ReNae
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Hi Jamie and all,
I'm so glad that you mentioned optional hyphens! I have my
OCR
automatically remove those, so forgot completely that they can be a
problem.
They aren't even on my list of stuff to worry about, which isn't a
good idea
for anyone else using my list of things that I do.
I love good advice!
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamie
Yates
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:19 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Proofreader's Checklist -- send me
your ideas
I change optional hyphens (^- in word) to nothing. I also change
tabs to
spaces but not until I've done a "find" to look for the tabs,
because often
where there is a tab is a problem spot in the scanning. Sometimes
the page
scanned crooked and the text is a little off or has lots of hard
returns in
it where there are a lot of tabs. In word I also look for al
occurences of
-^p (hyphen hard return) and fix those.
Mayrie will have a good list for you that she regularly uses.
--
Jamie in Michigan
Currently Reading: Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel
Mendelsohn www.michrxtech.com/books.html
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