[bksvol-discuss] Re: 1st glitch
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:49:55 -0500
I can give you part of the story of the life of Girl with a Pearl Earring.
the original submitter, if on this list, would have to give some info, and E
will have to provide the story of it's existance after my submit. <g>
I downloaded it from the collection quite a while ago just to read it. i
had no intention of editing it, but found that there were 17 pages of a book
set in the 20th century in Australia in the middle of the file instead of 17
pages from Girl with a Pearl Earring, which is set in Delft Holland in the
1600s. lol
I really had to fix that, so I got the book and scanned in those pages.
While I was at it I fixed some other stuff, but didn't reread the book to
fix all the mistakes. The file was actually very weird, with weird end
quotes everywhere instead of normal quotes, and problems with returns and
spaces missing or present where they shouldn't have been. I wonder what
made the original file. I edited by making the daisy file I read in
Kurzweil into an rtf. I think that was in Kurzweil version 7, and I didn't
know enough to resave in word after editing at that time.
I just know that page breaks were present, and E said the book was fine when
it left her BN. She will have to give you the more recent and important
editing and conversion history. :-)
I don't have any use for wordpad, but I agree that it hasn't ever damaged
anything of mine, unless it was wordpad and not my braille note that caused
one file to develop linebreaks where they didn't exist before editing. grrr!
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
curious entity at earthlink dot net
----- Original Message -----
From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 8:17 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: 1st glitch
> Hi Kellie,
>
> I just did a couple of simple tests, and I can't seem to figure out what
> would cause one to loose page breaks in Wordpad. I created a simple
> document in MS Word, i.e. Page 1 [page break] page 2 [page break], etc. I
> then opened it in Wordpad, added some text, and checked in Word. No
> problem all page breaks still there. I then went back into Wordpad,
> deleted some text, saved again, and checked once more. Still no
> problem. I did the above steps using the Save option in Wordpad, and then
> I went back and tried again using the Save As option to see if anything
> different happened. Still no problem. I then looked around in Wordpad
> settings to see if anything looked like a likely culprit, but no joy. I
> then attacked the help files to see if there were any references to pages
> or page breaks, but nothing.
> I guess the next logical step would be more info.
> What program created the RTF file?
> What version of Windows?
> What version of Wordpad?
> Was Wordpad the only program used for editing?
>
> Regarding Wordpad itself, I'd have to say, it really is a crappy program
> for the overall editing of a book, but it is useful for quick jobs. I.e.
> resaving a rtf file that Bookshare doesn't recognize as a RTF document;
> minor changes; getting the title, author, copyright, ISBN, etc.
> While I can't get it to eat page breaks, it seems particularly poor at
> allowing a user to check pagination as the page breaks show up as blank
> lines, and I couldn't find a reveal codes setting.
> By the way, I'm using Windows XP Home, Wordpad V5.1, and using Jaws 4.51.
>
> Dave
>
> At 06:22 PM 5/23/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi Dave,
> >I never thought WordPad ate formatting either, but I've been working with
E
> >to figure out why pagination was removed from several of her files, and
> >WordPad seems to be the culprit. I'm going to try performing a few
> >experiments to see if this is true, and if anything can be done to
prevent
> >it, besides not using WordPad I mean. <grin> Any theories or ideas you
may
> >have on the subject would be appreciated.
> >Thanks,
> >Kellie
>
>
>
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