[bksvol-discuss] Re: Eliminating soft hyphens
- From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:40:34 -0500
FYI, Microsoft Word and Omnipage both call these hyphins "optional" hyphins
and not soft hyphins. They are typically added to preserve the look and
feel of the originall page but word recognizes the word(s) that contain this
type of hyphin as a full word and not a split word.
I'm glad it worked.
Pratik
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Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:46 PM
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Hi,
Yes, the ^- suggestion worked. Thanks a bunch!
Munawar A. Bijani
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Eliminating soft hyphens
Munawar,
When performing a global find and replace in Microsoft word, don't search
for a simple hyphin--i.e., "-"--but perform a search for "^-" (without the
quotes) and replace with nothing. This should solve your problem. Let us
know if it doesn't.
Pratik
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Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 7:30 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Eliminating soft hyphens
Hi,
Apparently the soft hyphens are "hidden" as another poster had mentioned
earlier, because spellcheck does not count the broken word as an error if
both parts are on the same line. I am assuming this is also true for the
Bookshare automated dictionary. I did try replacing all dashes with nothing
as you suggested; this works well for words which should not be split.
Thanks for your response.
Munawar A. Bijani
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Grandma Cindy
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:37 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Eliminating soft hyphens
They could be eliminated by a global replace with
nothing, but then some that should remain would also
be eliminated. I do it manually as I go along.
Possibly replacing a hyphen space with nothing would
eliminate them without also removing hyphens that
belong between words or compound phrases.
Cindy
--- Munawar Bijani <munawarb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello List,
> I'm back with yet another question. smile. While
> scanning a Goosebumps book
> for upload, I realized that several words are
> hyphenated so that they may
> pick up on the following line. For instance, if the
> word trembling is at the
> end of a line and it will overrun the margin, the
> word is printed as
> follows:
> trem-
> bling
> Will this degrade the scan quality (IE: will the
> automated dictionary give
> the validator a lower quality rating,) or can the
> dictionary tell if a word
> is intentionally broken up? Is there any way to
> remove these hyphens without
> doing it manually? I went through a recent book I
> submitted: "Marriage and
> Morals in Islam" and did remove the soft hyphens
> where ever I could. Do I
> have to do this for every book I submit?
> Thanks, and sorry for so many questions! :)
>
> Munawar A. Bijani
> mailto:munawarb@xxxxxxxxx
>
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Cindy
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