[bksvol-discuss] Re: Rank Spelling
- From: "Silvara" <silvara@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:16:04 -0500
Actually I do the opposite. I do the rank spelling with caps turned off and
just before I am ready to upload I turned them back on and go through it.
Although if the rating is quite low I turned them on to do a more thorough
check.
----- Original Message -----
From: Guido Corona
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:58 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Rank Spelling
I suggest that in Kurzweil we initially check ranked spelling with
capitalized words included in the check. This would enable us to determine if
there are obvious problems in the reco of capitalized words themselves. Some
books have the habit also of having the 1st line of each chapter in
CAPITALIZED-ONLY chars, which may lead to some further spurious lowering of
quality rating. Last, but not least, other books -- like military fiction --
have a lot of words containing mixed alph and numeric chars -- like F-15 for
example. Once again, there is a setting in ranked spelling properties to turn
off this check.
I suggest that, when editing the book these switches be left active;
however when doing a final rating, the switches be turned off, as many of these
outwardly misrecoed words are in the printed text. As you know, I am
draconian at heart on the subject of quality, but. . . we do not want to "throw
out the baby with the bath water"! G.
Guido Dante Corona
IBM Research,
Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC)
Austin Tx.
Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
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guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who questioned the
most were in the end those who came closest to being wise."
[David Poyer, The Command]
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