[bksvol-discuss] Re: Proofreader's Checklist -- send me your ideas
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:01:22 -0700 (PDT)
yep--that's the correct thing to do
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--- On Sun, 3/15/09, Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Proofreader's Checklist -- send me your ideas
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 6:30 PM
> Hi Denise,
>
> I connect those words split over two
> pages too. You rock!
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Denise Wagner
> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:17 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Mayrie ReNae
> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 8:58 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Proofreader's Checklist --
> send me your ideas
>
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Denise Wagner
> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:53 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Proofreader's Checklist --
> send me your ideas
>
> What's an optional hyphen!
>
> Denise
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Mayrie ReNae
> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 7:19 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Proofreader's Checklist --
> send me your ideas
>
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Jamie Yates
> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:19 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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