[bksvol-discuss] Re: spelling checkers
- From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 16:06:08 -0700
Earlier this week I posted about my foray into validating. I got in a
couple this week. I did my first 2. I did run spell checker on 'em. It
does take some time and I had to make some calls sometimes to figure out
what the context was. Words that really are not words were in the text,
sort of what do you call it-- literary slang? Like dat for that, or
nuttin' for nothing. Stuff like that. But I found it did catch a lot more
than what I did by just listening to my speech read it. I do agree with its
value. Whatever can be done with these copies to ensure highest quality as
they are prepared for long term placement in the Bookshare library seems a
worthwhile thing.
Today I started in on my third book, doing the John Peel series, wanting to
work through some of the .ARK files on the step 1 page. I used the OpenBook
spell checker. First time I had really ever used it. I used Word for the
earlier files. I don't know if one is better, but they both seemed good.
Practicing will likely get me better with the keyboard shortcuts on the
spell chccking. (er, UH, UH, I mean check king). <g>
Rik
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: spelling checkers
The validating requirements do not mention spell checking, and although most
of us on this list do it, in my opinion this is primarily the responsibility
of the submitter. There will still no doubt be words that are missed and
hopefully the validator will pick these up and correct them.
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