[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 23:11:35 -0500
Hi Rose,
In Kurzweil the escape key sequence is the backslash (\) not the slash
(/) that you wrote in your messages, could that be causing it not to work
for you? Or did you just mistype them here on the list...
HTH,
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 11:07 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating
> I have tried searching for -/n and -/t and replacing with nothing but
> every time I get zero corrections are made, but I can still find this
> -/nl and I cannot get a rank spelling to work because so many word
> endings are floating around. I am not into doing this all manually on a
> 900 page document, not even with tomorrow off.
>
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> Rose Combs
> rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rose Combs
> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:38 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating
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>
> Thanks. I did not intend to start out big , I did not know the file was
> going to be big, it turned out to be more than I'd bargained for but
> since I have it I might as well do it.
>
> Thanks for the K1000 hints, I have used it most for reading and scanning
> and have not done a lot of the rank spelling or editing yet. I have a
> feeling that is about to change. Now, if it will quit locking up on me
> today.
>
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>
> Rose Combs
> rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kellie
> Hartmann
> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:16 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating
>
>
> Hi Rose,
> Wow, you're brave to take on a gigantic project like this for your first
> validation effort. Your experience with medical terminology is a great
> asset
> for the Bookshare collection. Just make sure you do other more fun
> validations too so you don't get Bookshare burnout. <grin>
> Here are some instructions/suggestions for your situation.
>
> First, it may be that the tabs following the hyphens are throwing off
> Kurzweil's auto-correction feature. Try replacing hyphen followed by tab
> with just hyphen, then run the autocorrect again and see if it helps.
> The
> way to make a tab in the find/replace box is \t
> If that doesn't work, what you might want to do is replace hyphen
> followed
> by newline, or hyphen followed by tab newline, whichever is occurring,
> with
> nothing. To do this in Kurzweil all you have to know is that the way to
> make
> a tab in the find/replace dialogue is \t and the newline character is \n
> So to fix a hyphen followed by tab and linebreak you would hit ctrl-h to
> enter the find/replace box, then type -\t\n and put nothing in the
> replace
> with field. After you've done a mass f/r such as this, it's always good
> to
> check around and make sure it didn't have any unintended consequences.
> So I
> would save any other changes you made before starting this so you won't
> lose
> any other changes you may have made if something goes funky with the
> f/r.
>
> I'm sorry if this message is a bit scrambled, I've been dealing with a
> three-day-long migraine, and between that and the unfortunately not as
> effective as I'd like medicine I may not be running on all eight
> cyllinders.
> Kellie
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