[bksvol-discuss] Re: eliminating line breaks
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:45:04 -0500
<smiling> Well, yeah, Word sure is slow. Sometimes when I press enter to
open a file in Word, it is soooo slow!!!!!
So how does one go about valiidating a RTF file in Kurzweil? I mean, do you
have to change the file to a .kes extension and then change it back? I am
speaking of validating, where you download a RTF file. I'd love to get out
of using Word if possible. Not only is it slow, but it pulls boners on
you!!! <lol>
Sue S.
----- 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 think
about 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 breaks
> Hi 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 making
> things easier on myself and allowing myself, however I can to sit back and
> read 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
> that
> apparently 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 hit
> continue 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.
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