I personally would be happy if I can convince those who scan to spell
check. (wistful smile) How about getting them to run rank spelling? (hope
hope)
E. At 12:52 PM 10/2/2006, you wrote:
Thanks for mentioning this, E.
I think it really does make a big difference not to have the sentences interrupted by the headers and page numbers. I too have been adjusting to see that the ends of pages end in complete sentences. I figure if I have to look for the hyphenated words at the end of pages, I may as well make the page end with a complete sentence. And as you say, this is ESPECIALLY important when there are footnotes at the bottom of the page. A reader can really get lost when the text of the page gets interrupted by a bunch of sentences in footnotes.
Although this is something we can do when validating, it would make me happy as a clam if the person who scanned the book and submitted it took the time and care to do this.
I am beginning to feel that scanning in batch mode creates a heck of a lot more work down the road than just doing the scan a page at a time, or 2 at a time in 2 page mode with most books. And to at least spot check each paragraph of each page. Then if the scan is bad, you can just delete the page right then and there and do a re-scan. Happy as a clam all over again. Time for a clam bake. Put on your Elvis Presley record, and pull out that old 1960's Elvis movie Clambake, . (smile) But who the heck really knows how happy a clam is anyway? (That could be a topic for Andy Rooney, huh?
Rik
-----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elizabeth and Burton Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 6:36 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: words split across pages
As a validator, I move words and sentence fragments so that sentences end on one page or begin on another. This is taking some liberty with the positioning of text though not with the text itself. I do this to make reading go more smoothly for both braille users and voice users. I find it particularly necessary to do this in cases where footnotes at the bottom of pages break up the flow.
Hope this helps.
E.
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