[bksvol-discuss] Re: proofreading questions
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:18:04 -0700 (PDT)
I wonder if it's necessary to re-place that apostrophe that is over the
penultimate letter rather than after it, where it belongs. That is something
someone who listens or uses Braille to rad will have to say; to a sighted
person it's very clear what it is.
Cindy
--- On Thu, 7/26/12, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: proofreading questions
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2012, 6:03 PM
Hi John,
I can answer the bit about books.google.com. It's unlikely that you
would want to change your page breaks in the scanned version .rtf
to match the Google copy. Your edition is probably a totally
different edition than the one that is on google books. I run into
this all the time. Books can have 20 or 30 different editions, or
even more, and the pagination will be different on each edition.
The missing dash problem could have from a whole bunch of causes. I
don't have a fix for you as a proofreader to handle that easily,
unless there is a specific consistent pattern you can use to do a
'search and replace' for the missing em dashes. One idea from the
pattern you are seeing is to just do a search for space space and
then replace each of these that appear to be a missing em dash with
a hyphen hypen, Someone else here may have a better idea, though.
I'm also a sighted volunteer with limitations that don't allow me to
manipulate a print book. There are a few of us in that boat that are
volunteers here. I use google book and amazon peek both when
available, and when I can't get an answer I need there or from the
person who scanned the book I ask on the list if someone can find
the book and scan the page and send it to me.
Hope that helps,
Judy s.
On 7/26/2012 7:06 PM, John Simpson
wrote:
I have several questions about the book that I am
currently proofing.
First off, words that are followed by an "'s" have the
apostrsphe
over the penultimate letter (e.g. Martin̓s). While this is
not a showstopper,
it does require a fair amount of corrections. I guess my
question is what
causes this kind of construction? Is it a function of the
scan volunteer, the
scanner hardware, or the OCR software?
Secondly, I have gone to books.google.com to take
a look at this book.
My question here is whether Google has a fair
representation of the book. I
know that all but one page are present, but within the
first several chapters,
the page breaks in the scanned version .rtf are not in the
same place as they
are in Google's copy. I certainly don't want to have to go
through the entire
book changing pagination based on Google. I do have a hold
at my local library
for the print copy that will help answer this question.
Any other advice would
be greatly appreciated.
The third question is that in the scanned version
that I have from
BookShare there are frequent instances of two spaces,
rather than one. The
sense of the book is that there should be a comma where
the first space is.
However, when looking at the Google version, this
separator is an m dash
surrounded by spaces. All of these dashes have been
removed. Again, my
question is whether this is a function of the scan
volunteer the scanner
hardware or the OCR software. Again, I do not wish to go
through the entire
print book looking for dashes that I need to replace, or
even to do a find on
two spaces and see if the meeting indicates a dash.
I am a sighted volunteer with physical limitations
that do not allow me
to manipulate a print book. While I don't mind getting
occasional assistance to
go to a specific page to verify my proofreading, I'm not
able to scan a print
book and compare my scan to the BookShare .rtf version.
If the Google
representation is accurate relative to the print book, I
will be happy to use that
as a resource wherever possible.
Thanks for any and all suggestions.
John Simpson
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