[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating

  • From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 23:30:52 -0500

Hi, Rose! You want to search for hyphen, backslash T or hyphen, backslash N. I think you've been using the forward slash. You want the backslash, right below the backspace key. Hopefully, this will help. Happy 4th!

Jana

----- Original Message ----- From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 11:14 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating



Message is not scrambled, but my brains are, and I know the headache
thing.

It sits here and keeps showing me a -nl in for example me-chanical and I
have tried searching for -/n -/t -/t/n and it says there are none but I
am sitting here looking at one and more in the same paragraph.  I have
been reading the manual, following your suggestions, and either I am
going to have to submit it the way it is because from reading I am not
finding spelling errors, missing pages or anything or I am going to have
to release it.

I cannot devote a whole week to doing this task manually, it just won't
work that way.



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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