[bksvol-discuss] Re: removing extraneous linebreaks
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 00:14:14 -0800
Hi Julia,
You would have gotten replacements, but the words that had
originally beenseparated by paragraph marks where they shouldn't have been
would have then been run together without a space between them. The space
is to keep words that should be separated from being run together.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julia
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: removing extraneous linebreaks
Oh, and I would've typed (a), and probably got zero replacements, smile.
Julia
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From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:25 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: removing extraneous linebreaks
> Hi Sue,
>
> What you want to put in the replace box is space a That way the
> paragraph mark will be replaced by a space instead. And just to be ultra
> clear you hit the space bar and then type a lower case letter a Is that
> clearer? Sorry to confuse.
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of siss52
> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 7:20 AM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: removing extraneous linebreaks
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> I do not understand the "replace with" box. It said a)
> Is that correct?
>
> Sue S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 7:36 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: removing extraneous linebreaks
>
>
> Extremely interesting. Thank you. This seems far easier than some
> systems I have heard folks use.
>
> E.
>
> At 08:24 AM 2/8/2009, you wrote:
>>HI E.
>>
>> Here's the pertinent part of that note.
>>
>>
>> The character string that denotes a paragraph mark in K1000 is
>> \n.
>>Very often text is OCRed with extra paragraph marks in it. You can do a
>>find and replace to get rid of these. For each letter of the alphabet,
>>you
>>can do the following:
>>In the find box of the find and replace dialogue type \na (that is back
>>slash, n a)
>>You want to make sure to pay attention to case sensitivity.
>>In the replace box type (space a).
>>This will join lines of text that OCRed into two paragraphs that shouldn't
>>have been separate paragraphs.
>>Make sure to use lower case letters or you'll trash all paragraph marks
>>and
>>be in a world of curses!
>>I do this with every letter of the alphabet in lower case.
>>
>>Also, very often dialogue gets condensed into one paragraph where it
>>shouldn't be.
>>You can search for " " (quotation mark, space, quotation mark) and replace
>>with "\n" that is (quotation mark, backslash n, quotation mark). This will
>>separate dialogue that didn't get separated by the OCR process.
>>
>>Mayrie
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E.
>>Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 4:40 AM
>>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] removing extraneous linebreaks
>>
>>I never got a posting talking about how to remove extraneous
>>linebreaks Mary. Please re-send it.
>>
>>E.
>>
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