[bksvol-discuss] Re: Contracted Braille translation
- From: "Sue Stevens" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:03:15 -0500
Hi Mayrie!!
Bless your heart!!! My open quotes now look like they should. I didn’t do the
closing quotes yet, because they look normal. So do I still need to do the
find and replace for them too?
Thanks,
Sue
From: Mayrie ReNae
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 8:30 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Contracted Braille translation
Hi Sue,
I think what you're seeing with your quotes are smart quotes. Those are
another thing in the AutoCorrect junk that we generally turn off. I'll
pastesome instructions to keep them from appearing when you type.
As for replacing what you are seeing, which can be helped with find and
replace, because they came to you in your document, here are instructions: I'm
not Judy, so you can tell me to mind my own business and I will.
Copy one of the backward looking quotes to your clip board by sitting your
cursor on it, pressing shift plus right arrow to make sure it's selected, and
then pressing control plus c to copy it to the clipboard
Move to the top of your document by pressing control plus home to make sure
your find and replace action covers the entire document.
Press control plus h to open the find and replace dialogue
In the "find box" paste your opening quote that you copied to your clipboard by
pressing control plus v
In the replace box, type a quotation mark as you usually would.
Tab to "replace all" and hit enter.
Do the same with what you're seeing as a closing quote and save the changes,
and you're done.
Now, here are instructions for turning off automatic insertion of smart quotes
when you type from a document Judy created a couple of years back. I'm also
including the other things in the AutoCorrect section that need to be turned
off so you can do that all at once and be done.
See below my signature, and happy proofreading!
Mayrie
The following steps were taken from the volunteer blog and are suggested
settings for your Word program by Bookshare staff. You will only need to do
this once on your computer, and it will customize your Word program to change
some settings to make it more compatible with proofreading for Bookshare.
1.
Stop conversion to border lines:
Go to Tools Menu (short cut = alt T),
Click on "Autocorrect Options"
click on tab "AutoFormat As You Type"
Uncheck box labeled "Border Lines"
asterisks (and equal signs, dashes, etc.) will no longer convert themselves to
lines (or borders).
2.
Fix smart quotes:
Go to Tools Menu,
Click on "Autocorrect Options"
Click on tab "AutoFormat"
uncheck "Straight quotes with smart quotes".
Go to Tools Menu,
Click on "Autocorrect Options",
Click on tab "AutoFormat As You Type"
uncheck "Straight quotes with smart quotes".
3.
Fix em dashes:
Go to Tools Menu
Click on "Autocorrect Options"
Click on tab "AutoFormat As You Type"
uncheck "hyphens - - with —".
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sue Stevens
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 2:22 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Contracted Braille translation
Judy,
If I remember correctly, you are the one who can figure out search strings to
do things globally, and I really really need help here.
I turned on Grade II output Braille so I could check how Jaws 12 handles things
in Braille. Well, my opening and closing quotes look like closing quotes in
Braille, and this should not be. So I think I need to give Word a cussin’ and
then see if there is a global replacement solution. If I delete the opening
quote and retype it, it looks like it should in Braille. So am I nitpicking
here, or do the opening and closing quotes really look different in print as
well? When I type them, I use the same key, apostrophe with the shift. I
really hate bringing this up again because I know it has been addressed several
times already.
Thanks for any help.
Sue S.
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