[bksvol-discuss] Re: letters for numbers
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 13:42:12 -0700 (PDT)
And, from my past experience, fractions, whether in
cookbooks or scientific books, just come out oddly --
nothing consistent I can think of -- and footnotes
numbers -- sometimes they come out as asterisks,
sometimes haf parentheses, sometimes the number eight
when it should be three or five.
Cindy
--- "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am not scanning cookbooks but have come up with
> the following list of
> common letter number misstakes.
>
> These need to be checked carefully in case context
> contradicts the list
> below. So z usually means 2 but may not in some
> cases.
>
> i = 1
> z = 2
> s = 5
> ? = 7
> y = 9
> o = 0
> n = 11
> ii = 11
>
> As you can see sometimes 11 is ii and sometimes n.
> You have to check context.
>
> This list is possibly incomplete. It is sometimes
> possible to search for
> things which tend not to occur in prose but may
> represent numbers. A
> global search and replace is a terrible idea. But
> you can perhaps search
> for and correct things like
> ioo which should be 100
> ioi 101
> iio 110
> and so on. I just use the list above and put
> together combinations which
> might work.
>
> Another good thing to do is run rank spelling on
> k1000 and look at the
> results combined with the info above and figure out
> patterns.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> E.
>
>
>
> At 09:04 AM 9/6/2004, you wrote:
>
> >While you are doing so, could you give us a list of
> some of the common
> >mistakes you are finding so that as we scan more
> cookbooks we might know
> >what those mistakes might mean? Sharon
>
>
>
>
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