[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 19:52:23 -0500
Reggie,
Did Word say that the file contains features that are not compatible with
Text Only format? If so, then you need to save it as an RTF file in order
to preserve the changes you made.
It also could have been the page breaks in the file. I think several
volunteers have mentioned that they are able to save documents as TXT files
without losing page breaks because of the word processor they are using.
Word doesn't preserve page breaks, though, when saving as a TXT file.
Change the format to RTF with the Save As choice in the File menu, and you
should be OK. If that doesn't work, then let the list know, and we'll see
if we can come up with another idea or two to help.
Gerald
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Reggie & Lonnie
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 7:03 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books
Yes, still here! (smiles). I began validating a couple of books that were
TXT. In fact, I think they were books that Shelley scanned. Anyway, I
began removing hyphens at the end of lines and when I tried to exit Word it
told me that there was formatting incompatible with Word (paraphrasing
here). Anyway, there was good protection of the text, page numbers, and
chapter titles so I just didn't want to reck the books. Can someone tell me
how with Word I could have finished validating these books? Does changing it
to RTF change the page breaks? Do the page breaks disappear? Still confused
on this page break thing but knew they were there. Somewhere in my reading
of emails I understood we could validate TXT and send them up as TXT. Can
someone help me here, please? Thanks beforehand as I may not be on here for
the next couple of days as much as I wish I could be.
Reggie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kaitlyn Hill" <Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 6:07 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books
> Hi rose,
>
> I know about reading for pleasure. There is so much I want to read but
> have
> been enjoying reading Eaters Of The Dead. It has turned out to be a great
> book:) I will be uploading it for release over the next couple of days:)
>
> Huggles
>
> Kaitlyn, Happy fourth! Treasure your freedom less you loose it
> t
> Level III Practitioner
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>
> Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the number
> of
> moments that take your breath away:)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rose Combs
> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 12:25 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books
>
> Yes, I know how to do that in word, but, I had a brain freeze a while
> ago and made a mess of it, but then, I still have the original to work
> with, maybe tomorrow.
>
> For now, I think I am going to read for pleasure for a while.
>
>
> Rose Combs
> rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy
> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 11:46 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books
>
>
> You could do one of two things. If the words should
> not be hyphenated, you can globally replace (replace
> All) hyphen tab with nothing. That should close up all
> those words. The hyphen and the tab can be found if
> you click More and then Special and scroll up, at
> least on my Word. If you're using something else like
> K1000, ask here and someone will tell you what to do.
> If you want to keep the hyphens, replace hyphen tab
> with just hyphen.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> --- Rose Combs <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> OK, this is strange. I started a spell check on
>> this book and every
>> hyphen is followed by a tab character. This does
>> not look fun.
>>
>>
>> Rose Combs
>> rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Rose Combs
>> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 10:58 PM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books
>>
>>
>> I have a medical spell checker on my computer. My
>> job is in the medical
>> field and so I figured I'd be familiar with the
>> terminology and also I
>> have the ability to spell check, K1000 does not have
>> a medical spell
>> checker and that is annoying for me since all the
>> stuff I have scanned
>> in the past several months is definitely loaded with
>> medical terms.
>>
>>
>> Rose Combs
>> rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Julie Morales
>> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:44 PM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books
>>
>>
>> What about a spell check? If there are a lot of
>> medical terms, that may
>> not
>> help. If you take the .rtf file into Kurzweil and
>> perform a ranked
>> spelling,
>> maybe that'll help, if you're not going to read the
>> whole thing. That'll
>>
>> help give you a quicker glimpse of whether anything
>> really should be
>> fixed
>> or not. As far as hyphens go, unless they're
>> compound words that are
>> supposed to be hyphenated, the common consensus, I
>> believe, is to put
>> them
>> together, but with that large of a book, there's
>> little wonder that you
>> wouldn't want to read the whole thing! Take care.
>> Julie Morales
>> inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:20 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Cindy
>> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:03 PM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books
>>
>>
>> -
>> > 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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