[bksvol-discuss] Re: unzipped and lost in space
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:17:08 -0700
Amy,
You can select the entire book in K1000 by using control-a. Then go into
the Format menu as before and use the Font dialog box to disable bold
throughout the book. It will take just a few moments. I tried it on a
200-page book, and it took less than 15 seconds. If your book is
substantially longer, you may need to give it a minute or two to do the
whole thing. If you hit the control key while it is reformatting the text,
it will tell you how many pages have been reformatted so far if it isn't
done yet.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Amy Goldring Tajalli
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:23 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: unzipped and lost in space
Evan,
It works beautifully but can I press my luck. There are some words
legitimately in "bold" print in the book I am working on but very few. If
it were possible, if I could set the format/font for the whole book I could
eliminate all of the bold print and then insert it in those rare places
where it is needed and legitimate. The same would be true of a change in
font size. as all the page headings come out in bold and larger size than
needed. Now that I now how I have been emboldened to debold all of them as
they are noticeable only to the sighted and I find them more of a
distraction as they are. The headings themselves are helpful since there are
17 stories in this collection and while they are different I do find it
helpful to remind myself which one I am reading. The page numbers are in so
small and light a print that if I did not add them in most cases they would
not be there or what is there is not a clear, correct number. I was changing
them as I scanned but it takes so long that way I will wait until I validate
before correcting them. I just check to make sure that each page has a
limited number of corrections needed - which I plan to do myself - or I will
rescan until it comes out as close to flawless as possible. Thus a
preliminary correction throughout to get the font and print correct would be
enormously timesaving, The K-1000's word correction has been a lifesaver for
just that.
Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:42 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: unzipped and lost in space
Amy,
I don't know if there is a keyboard combination for creating or deleting
bold or italic text in K1000, but if you select the text you want to
italicize or boldify, or deitalicize or deboldify, go to the Edit menu, and
arrow up or down to Format. Hit Enter on that and you will get a submenu
with Font as the first entry. Hit Enter on Font and a dialog box will open.
Tab through it and, among other things such as type of font and size, you
will hear K1000 say whether the selected text is bolded, italicized, or not,
or whether some is and some is not. You can use the up and down arrows to
disable or enable bold and italics on the piece of text you have selected.
This will let you create bold or italic text wherever you want, and remove
it wherever you want.
HTH
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Amy Goldring Tajalli
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 5:32 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] unzipped and lost in space
I scanned & validated Faulkner's The Town and submitted it with the
hope of downloading it to do some fixing on indentations and removing bold
print with WordPerfect whereas I had done most of the validating with
Kurzweil. I don't know how to undo italics and bold print where they should
not be nor how to put them in with Kurzweil.
Well, to make a long story short, my allergy to WinZip showed up
when I downloaded the book and not only could not unzip it but could not
find it where I thought I put it and eventually what I had was garbage that
had to be deleted.
It is not listed in the validation queue so I believe it is still
listed as my having it so if nothing else it should show up after 7 days but
if anyone has found it and wants to finish the job feel free as what I
submitted was excellent except for the 2 problems I mention above and which
may be solved by the Bookshare programming - I think/hope/guess. But would
you please let me know that it has been found. I wrote John about it but got
no reply and am not sure I sent it to the right address but I put a lot of
time and effort into it and before I start on The Mansion I want to be sure
that the previous volumes have been accepted so I won't repeat any mistakes.
The Town should show up in the Download list for review by this weekend.
Amy
Faulknerite and omsm.
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