[bksvol-discuss] Re: question for sighted scanners
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 16:20:35 -0800 (PST)
Interesting. I use Ignore All when I do a final spell check, but when I'm
validating I do an "Add" for names or odd spellings, e.g. English spellings.
I've noticed, though, that while it's retained for the time I'm working, by the
next day I have to do it again, but after two or three repetitions, then it is
added and I no longer have to do it.
I don't use the grammar check. I find it really annoying, and it catches things
that are really o.k.
Cindy
--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question for sighted scanners
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 3:00 PM
> I didn't think it was a criticism, but occasionally a
> book of mine will slip through without my usual careful
> editing, so I assumed that it was one of those. If there are
> only a few errors in a bestseller, that's fine, but if
> it gets to be more than a handful, please let me know and
> I'll fix the book. I REALLY want bestsellers to be as
> close to perfect as one could reasonably expect (the key
> word here being 'reasonably').
> About checking for errors, I look for a red wavy line
> underneath words that MS Word thinks are errors. If the word
> is a last name, I click on 'Ignore all' so that MS
> Word ignores all instances of the word. The downfall with
> this system is when a word is okay with either a t or an r,
> like cat and car. If MS Word thinks that the grammar is bad,
> it'll use a green way line underneath the offending
> words, like a sentence fragment. Sometimes I'll catch
> the t-r instances by checking grammar problems. I usually
> skim through every page of the book, looking for errors. I
> catch most, but probably not all, of them.
>
> Carrie
>
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> ________________________________
> From: Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, November 8, 2008 2:45:29 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question for sighted scanners
>
>
> My question was in no way a criticism, Carrie. As a
> matter of fact I am writing where the errors occur which
> are really not many,
> but I simply got to wondering about this and decided to
> ask.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carrie Karnos
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 2:27 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question for sighted
> scanners
>
> Which book is it? I'll fix it. Carrie
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, November 8, 2008 11:47:59 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] question for sighted scanners
>
> I am reading a New York Times scanned book and the most
> common scanning errors are the scanner mistaking a T for an
> R. How would a sighted scanner even be able to identify this
> problem since they are not listening to the book or reading
> it on a braille display? There must be a simple answer to
> this that just hasn't occurred to me. Jill
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