[bksvol-discuss] Re: Proofreading Frustration
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 14:20:22 -0500
Hi Andromache!
I let context be my guide. No one has called me on it, so I must be doing
alrright.
Debby
At 05:45 PM 5/7/2010, Andromache wrote
That is confusing about keeping actions in the same paragraph as quotes. I
always thought they should be separated because the subject of the
sentence has changed. But I'll follow your suggestion.
Andromache
On 5/7/2010 4:52 AM, Debby Franson wrote:
Hi Andromache!
I would keep the quotation and the description of what the character did
in the same paragraph, because I have noticed that that is the way it is
in books. Once the quotation changes to a different character, it's time
for a new paragraph. I know it can be confusing.
I think what confuses OCR is when a quotation with or without any
description has either two different quotes of equal length or wraps to
the next line with a word or two in the print book. The OCR thinks all
of it is a paragraph..
Debby
At 03:04 PM 5/6/2010, Andromache wrote
My problem does seem to be that there are many quotations on a single
page. But it makes me wary that paragraphs haven't been preserved right
because quotations are off. My trouble is that not all quotes stand by
themselves. There could be a quote, then a description of what the other
character is doing, then another quote by the original speaker. I don't
know if I should separate those out so that the description of a
person's action is in another paragraph or leave it the way it is. I
just don't like forcing a line break when I'm unsure if that is how it
is in the original book. I'm about a hundred pages from the end, a
little over halfway done, and I've resolved to proofread the text as
best I can, but really not sure what to do about the uncertain lack of
line breaks.
Andromache
On 5/6/2010 7:39 AM, Debby Franson wrote:
Hi Andromache!
I have noticed while proofing and scanning that quite often, where
there are many short quotes on a page, the OCR makes a paragraph out of
them, which can be confusing, though from context and careful reading
while proofing, I believe I have been able to press enter where
required to put each quotation on it's line so the reader can tell what
character is saying what.
I was a bit confused while proofing my first book because I was using
Word, which didn't put a blank line between paragraphs. I am not sure
if this is your problem with the paragraph divisions or not, but, if
you have something besides Word such as OpenBook or maybe Kurzweil,
though I don't know what Kurzweil does, but if I load the rtf into
OpenBook, there is a blank line between each paragraph while in edit mode.
I hope I have given you something useful to try. It can be hard to
proofread without any kind of hard copy to check.
Debby
At 03:48 AM 5/6/2010, Andromache wrote
I've checked out a book which is quite a good scan aside from dubious
paragraph breaks. I know for prose, it's most efficient to only have
new lines when there are blank spaces or at the beginnings of
paragraphs, but this book seems to not have retained these properly.
The way I know this is that quotations by different characters appear
with no line break between, and some places where contextually, you'd
think there should be a new paragraph, there isn't.
The difficulty arises because I'm a totally blind proofreader, and as
far as I can tell, there isn't a Braille hard copy. This is where
being able to comment on why a book is being released would be very
helpful. *frustrated sigh* I was really hoping I could do it because
the scan looked good, but I'm guessing I'll have to release it. Such a shame.
Unless the list can suggest alternatives?
Andromache
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