Yeah, I know what you mean. There are some steps you can do to speed word up, such as eliminating the office assistant and other items, but word still is rather memory intensive. I've got a nice fast computer here with a gig of ram and I still get word being as slow as molasses going uphill in a blizard sometimes. However, word does have some useful things for quick proofing fixes, such as the ability to use regular expressions. As far as I know, k1000 and O B. don't offer those. Some cool things you can do with regular expressions, or regex, include:
1. Header elimination 2. Fixing line breaks and joining hyphenated words that result from same 3. Fixing extra paragraph marks.I'm just learning about all this myself, so I don't know how to use them properly, but I'm working on it. Once I get my macros made, I'll offer them up for general use by the community, if sufficient interest is shown. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 8:19 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: eliminating line breaks
Hi Robert, You're right. Unfortunately, I do my work in Kurzweil 1000 because it is much less resource intensive on my computer. I think my computer is allergic to Word. Laugh. If there is a word more ponderous than sluggish,perhaps glacier-like, it would describe how well I can do things in Word. I use it as little as possible! But you are right. A macro would be faster. I just avoid Word like the plague, probably more than the plague as I thinkabout avoiding Word actively and never think about the plague. Laugh. Shutting up. Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Riddle Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 5:49 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: eliminating line breaks You should make a macro to do that. It'd make your life easier.----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 7:30 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: eliminating line breaksHi Cindy, I guess since this is coming up twice now, I'll tell you how I deal with those pesky line breaks where they don't belong, in the middle of paragraphs. But first, to answer your direct question, yes, the bookshare tools will get rid of the extra space between words if there are two spaces instead of one. That's one thing the stripper is good for! I know that you, like I, prefer to read your books in order to validate them. However, I will admit to being a bit lazy. Not that I don't want to do work, but if I can sit back and read without removing those pesky paragraph marks in the middle of paragraphs, I will and do. I use the find and replace dialogue to do this, which takes at most five minutes, then the grand majority of inappropriate paragraph marks are gone before I ever start reading. Here is what I do. Since I know that you personally use Word, I'll tell you how I'd do it using word. I know I'm stating the obvious here, but paragraphs generally begin with a capital letter or a quotation mark. I have never seen a paragraph begin with a lower case letter, so, what I look for are paragraphs beginning with lower case letters and join them to the word before them with a space. Does that make sense? In the find box I would type ^pa In the replace box I would type a (that is hit the spacebar followed by the lower case letter a) Then I replace all. I do this with every lower case letter of the alphabet. And yippee! Most of the extraneous line breaks are gone! Now I can sit back and read without fixing each of those occurrences by hand as they appear in my reading! Much smoother reading! For those using Kurzweil 1000 the paragraph mark is represented in the find box by typing \n (that is backslash followed by the letter n) then you type the lower case letter you want to find. Have I made sense, or just confused the masses? I love makingthings easier on myself and allowing myself, however I can to sit back andread with as few corrections during the reading process as possible. Okay, I'm stopping now. Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 4:44 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] eliminating line breaks It is what either submitter or validator needs to do. Depending on my mood, since I read while I validate I either delete each line break manually or blacken the paragraph, being careful to leave the break at the end of the paragraph, and replace with a space, so two words don't run together. Sometimes this leaves two spaces between words instead of one, but then generally, at the end, replace two spaces with one; does the bookshare conversion do that automatically, perhaps? I've discovered, however, that with the first paragraph (each time one comes back to the file) one has to eliminate the lines spaces by using just "replace," not "replace all," or it makes the whole document one paragraph--and unfortunately a couple of times I validated books where thatapparently had been done. After the first paragraph is done, "replace all" will work with each new paragraph and you're safe as long as you don't hitcontinue or whatever. Cindy --- On Sat, 10/4/08, Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Lord of the Rose To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4:15 PM Hi E. Guess what, I have a solution for this one too! I get rid of exactly what you're talking about in every book that I submit or validate because I find the extraneous line breaks annoying too! Do you want to hear it, or should I leave you alone? Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E. Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 2:30 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Lord of the Rose The situation with Lord of the Rose does not involve multiple line breaks. it involves single line breaks as in He walked across the room. In the above sentence the only line break which ought to be there comes after the period. These linebreaks are obnoxious on a braille display. E. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. 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