[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about Find and editing
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:19:00 -0500
Thanks Sara.
I shall get cracking on these, smile.
And will be exploring the "edit" command a bit more closely.
I have a lot of time on my hands so should try to convert the piles, and I
do mean piles of books laying around here into something useful.
It think it is a sign of how valuable technology is, that I keep several
book shelves full of printed books I can't read, smile.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
www.guidedogs.com
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-- Vance Havner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 10:12 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about Find and editing
Just enter the single letters you wish to search for in the find box.
Tab a couple times to the checkbox for case sensitive searching and
choose the option you want, then tab again to the entire word option and
turn it on. That way you will not only find single undesirable
characters surrounded by spaces, but also ones with tabs, returns, and
punctuation marks as neighbors. Kurzweil seems to love to put a single
r at the top of pages followed by a new line. I call it an OCR
signature. Or should that be fingerprint? I always search for j's by
themselves and at the ends of lines and words.
If you find junk chars in ranked spelling you are correct that you would
use edit. You will then be able to go back to the ranked spelling
dialog without causing a long waiting time for recalculation loss of
your place and corrections. I love that about version 9.
About the apostrophes... I think changing them to double quotes would be
a change to the book that wouldn't be allowed, though I sure wouldn't
mind if it was permitted. It would be somewhat difficult to fix them
without removing apostrophes that did belong. You could make sure you
didn't replace them when they were part of a word without too much
trouble, but there are books with apostrophes as the first or last
character in a word because they show a word in dialect, and then there
is always a few things in single quotes, because a person is repeating
what someone else said.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 4:10 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question about Find and editing
> Hey you all,
>
> Since I am trying to submit more books without reading them, I have
about
> one hundred files sitting on the BN to be read and edited, sigh, I am
trying
> to edit them using the Kurzweil tools.
>
> How do you search for Capital letters that are junk, I don't mind
doing a
> "find, but how do I "find" just the single letters and not for
instance
> every word that the letter is part of.
>
> Also, what is a safe way to replace single apostrophes to make them
into
> Quotation marks, or would this be altering the fundamental text of the
book,
> some British titles have ' instead of ".
>
> Third, how can I edit junk, in the Rank Spelling box, as there were a
couple
> of spots, I knew it was junk and wanted to remove it. is the "edit"
feature
> used for this.
>
> Thanks guys, and my first attempt is now up on Bookshare with
hopefully
> several more to come if I figure out how to do this, and not feel
guilty
> about not reading them first.
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
> juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> Graduate Advisory Council
> www.guidedogs.com
>
> The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
> stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
>
> -- Vance Havner
>
>
>
>
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