No thanks needed. This information was passed on to me when I was a very inexperienced newby. I think I owe Marrey for that particular bit of wisdom, but not sure, as that's the beauty of this list. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
Anyway, glad I could be helpful. Bob----- Original Message ----- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 5:06 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Finding Soft Hyphens
Hi, Bob,You were 100% correct. When I went to check my line and page settings, themargins for this document were bizarre. Left margin was 1.38 and right margin was 4.5. As soon as I adjusted them to .5, the soft hyphen disappeared. Still many corrections to make, but not nearly so many as before. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:07 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Finding Soft Hyphens Hi Lora. I agree with Mayrie. Careful scanners are worth their weight in gold. Those who care enough to even ask whether or not they should send back the book because of the time it will take are rarer still. Please take your time. As far as the soft hyphens are concerned, I am a little puzzled. Softhyphens are usually thrown in by a software product such as Microsoft word,to indicate that a hyphen would be inserted based on your line and page settings. It doesn't mean a hyphen has been inserted. Try increasing yourline length and page length and see if they disappear, or move. If not, thenlet us know, because they may be something else posing as a soft hyphen. Just my opinion. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:33 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Finding Soft HyphensHi Lora, It is just my opinion, but I think that any book that will be handled by a person willing to read it through is well worth waiting for.We will all benefit from your reading it through, and as you can renew thebook as many times as you need to do that, time is really of no importance. So, enjoy the book, in my opinion, take your time, and be proud of the beautifully edited book that we all using the Bookshare collection will thank you for. A careful validator is worth several lazy ones, in my opinion, and to be terribly cliche, "haste makes waste." So, take your time, and I, at least, thank you for your work. Peace, Mayrie At 04:09 PM 3/16/2008, you wrote:I'm validating a book that has numerous words broken up by soft hyphens. I'd like to fix these, especially because they're not words at the end oflines or pages, just random words in the middle of various lines. I triedselecting the soft hyphen, and copying it into the Find box so I could locate other occurrences, but it won't copy and paste. Is there an easy way to find this soft hyphen? This book poses another problem. There are lots of the common scanos in it. For instance, 1 for I, rime for time, etc. I've fixed the ones Ifound as I skimmed the book, but many of these won't register in the spellchecker. I suppose it means I should read them through. The real tricky one is "me" for "the." I suspect, if the OCR did that, it did some other funky stuff for the letters th. This is a long book. It's Buddhism in Action. Knowing I can be a slow validator, should I return it, or take the time to read through it. I'm interested in the book, and will gladlyread it cover to cover, but at over 400 pages, this could take me a while.The scan is generally excellent, but there are lots of these little OCR quirks. Advice is welcome. Thanks, LoraTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. -- No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1329 - ReleaseDate: 3/14/2008 12:33 PMTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG.Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1329 - Release Date: 3/14/2008 12:33 PM
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