[bksvol-discuss] Re: validating question
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:05:36 -0500
Mass replacements of single character or single digit words are rather
dangerous. It is far safer to do a find for the word '1' and do a series
of manual replacements. In most cases the entire process takes about 10
minutes for an average book. If you really insist in using a global
replace, please ensure you have turned on the 'replace complete words
only' option, or whatever it is called in your system, or you may find
yourself with very bizarre results.
Guido
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: validating question
Why not use find and replace to change any " 1 " to " I "? If you do not
trust the feature to keep the numeral one where it is appropriate to do so
just ask it to check with you each time It takes far less time to do
that
than to do a rescan. Just an oppinion of course.
E.
At 01:41 PM 6/15/2004, you wrote:
>I am rescanning a "excellent" rated book where all or almost all the
letters
>I were turned into the number 1.
>
>So, she said, "1 want to go with you, but 1 will settle for working by
>myself." very aggravating.
>
>There are missing titles too, and garbled text. Must have been a old
>submission, or something, but my friend who had the print edition says
that
>the font looks like the I's should be ones, but will fix it.
>
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