[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books
- From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 08:25:26 -0700
I have K100, but I cannot spell check a lot of medical words in K1000 so
was using Word.
Rose Combs
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If you have Kurzweil, run apply corrections alt o and it will remove the
hyphens at the end of lines.
Jim
At 12:56 AM 7/3/05, you wrote:
>If the hyphens are at the end of the line and the word
>shold not be hyphentaed, you should remove the hyphen
>and close up the word. Otherwise, you should leave
>them in. I think I read here that people who listen
>can turn off punctuation, though I don't know if that
>includes hyphens.
>
>The book I'm validating now and am almost finished
>with is originally written in 1920, though this is a
>newer edition. However, the published changed nothing.
>Therefore, a lot of words that we don't hyphenate any
>more, like tonight and upstairs, are hyphenated --
>to-night, up-stairs. I have left them that way and
>will put a note about it in the long synopsis so
>readers can maybe remove them if they want for their
>reading pleasure.
>
>If I'm wrong to leave them and should eliminate them,
>Gustavo or Peter, please let me know.
>
>Cindy
>
>
>-- Rose Combs <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I hate house work.
> >
> > Question, I am validating a larger project than I'd
> > planned, Physical
> > Examination for Health Assessment. All the
> > copyright info is most
> > definitely present.
> >
> > I converted this doc file to RTF immediately.
> >
> > My question is this, there are a lot of hyphenated
> > words, and the
> > hyphens appear to be properly placed, my guess they
> > were done by the
> > publisher, or else the submitter (no name shown)
> > did a good job, I
> > should leave these alone? It would read better
> > aloud without them, but,
> > this is about a 900 page document, I am not really
> > inclined to remove
> > them all.
> >
> > Any opinions? This book had a fair rating, although
> > in the first few
> > pages, I have not found anything other than those
> > hyphens that could be
> > questionable.
> >
> >
> > Rose Combs
> > rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
> >
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> > Behalf Of Cindy
> > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:03 PM
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> >
> >
> > -
> > > It is the equivalent of whether my house is clean
> > > enough for me and my
> > > wife or for company.
> > >
> > Mike,
> >
> > That is an excellent analogy. I laughed, thinking of
> > my house. I spend much more time cleaning up books
> > for
> > bookshare than I do on my house. smiling
> > embarrassedly.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> >
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