[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 23:38:24 -0700 (PDT)
Sorry -- again I hit Send too fast. I forgot to add,
rate the book Good instead of Excellent, perhaps --
although Excellent does allow for a few errors, and if
that's the only problem, maybe you can rate it
excellent.
Cindy
--- Rose Combs <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> Rose Combs
> rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [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
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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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