[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating
- From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 08:57:49 -0700
That is finally what I did and it worked, now struggling with Rank
spelling, adding words that I know are words to the K1000 user
dictionary, but it found around 3000 of them.
Last night I started paging down through the book reading just a bit
from each page and all seems to be well.
Rose Combs
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Rose, The only other thing I can think of is to copy and paste the
characters you want to remove in to the find field.
Jim
12:07 AM 7/4/05, you 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
>
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>Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:38 PM
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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.
>
>
>
>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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