If you have access to the hardcopy and can determine what it actually shows, that is naturally the ultimate guide. However, there are some changes that are common as scannos that almost never occur as typos such as die for the (and die for any part of a word with the in it such as diem for them). Others are il ll or li for u, 6 for an e with an accent over it. There are others you get to know with experience. Also, when a chunk of text is involved, rather than just a single word, that is almost always a scanning problem.
Typos are usually misspellings, especially putting in a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently (there for their). Another kind of typo relates to touch typing errors where a key next to the one actually intended is hit (in fact an example of that might be hit instead of hut, i and u being next to each other, at least on standard US keyboards).
Misha Maureen Pranghofer wrote:
HiHow can you tell thedifference between a type-o and a scanning error when you are proofreading? If one letter is typed wrong in a word how do you know which it is? By checking the hard copy?Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:26 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Quotation marksHi Kim!Out of ignorance that there was such a thing as British punctuation, I changed all of the single quotes to double ones when I proofread a while back as we are used to here, and I didn't get in trouble, but I probably won't do it again, now that I know better. You'd better e-mail Carrie and ask her for sure about the policy on that, since the braille displays don't like the single quotes, since I don't know about policy on that, just that we are not to change text, including typos, which I find when reading over my scans. I groan when I find a typo, because I'd love to change it, but know it would be tampering with the published work, so I leave them and put a note in with my submission saying that page so-and-so has such-and-such a typo.Debby At 08:01 AM 5/23/2010, Kim Friedman wroteHi, folks, I just finished proofreading a book for Deborah Murray called A Secret and Unlawful Killing by Cora Harrison. It was written and published in Great Britain and has there particular type of quotation marks which I'm told don't translate as quotes in Braille. My initial desire was to replace those quotes with those that looked good in Braille. I didn't do this because the submitter informed me that those quotes should remain how they looked in the printed text. I wrote her and have subsequently written to Carrie Karnos to get bookshare's policy on this. I've checked in the book for approval and hope it will be added to the collection. I would be interested in your thoughts on this. I recognize that it is my job as proofreader to remove scanos if any, make sure the format is okay, all pagination and text present and accounted for and to muck about with the text as little as possible if the submitter did a great job, otherwise I could strip headers, add Roman numerals if needed for the prefatory pages, etc. Do write me back and tell me what you think given your knowledge and experience. Thanks and best regards, Kim Friedman.__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5138 (20100522) __________The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. <http://www.eset.com>http://www.eset.com-- mailto:<the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx> --Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless; it is like chasing the wind.--Ecclesiastes 6:9 NLTTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5142 (20100524) __________The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5142 (20100524) __________The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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