[bksvol-discuss] Re: For Valerie - how to replace incorrect paragraph marks that are at the end of every line in an entire document
- From: "Valerie Maples" <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:08:36 -0500
I apologize if this has been answered, but we've had tremendous electrical
storms and I have a brief window and not enough time to scour my couple
hundred messages from today.
I think the reason they use rich text instead of plaintext is because of the
assets for navigation to visual readers. While I realize there are huge
trade-offs, in trying to find the best common denominator for people with
physical disabilities and people who are blind, rich text is usually the
best format to branch from. I know that Nichole cannot handle anything in
plain text and has become a voracious reader because of the benefits to her
and how text can be manipulated and managed by software written for people
with extreme physical disabilities who rely on electronic text. While I know
many people love hearing a story told, Nichole will absolutely not listen to
audio books, and has developed a significant degree of literacy, only
because she loves reading print.
I hope that makes sense, at least from our front.
Have a great night!
Valerie
Check out my kids at:
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/nicholemaples <new>
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http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jorgemaples
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Soronel Haetir
> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 4:42 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: For Valerie - how to replace incorrect
> paragraph marks that are at the end of every line in an entire document
>
> I am somewhat surprised that bookshare uses rtf for this task. RTF
> has a huge amount of underlying junk that just gets in the way. Would
> have expected plain text with TeX style markup or similar.
>
> On 9/19/09, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Thanks! However, I just discovered in doing some digging that
> > all paragraph marks in Word are not found by the the ^13 because
> > of oddities of Word!
> >
> > For example, if you use a paste special to paste a block of text
> > etc. into Word or otherwise use stuff from the clipboard from
> > other applications, Word may display a paragraph mark where one
> > is supposed to be in that selection but the unicode value
> > underneath it isn't a ^13. The only way to find those and change
> > them to a proper paragraph mark that is a ^13 is to in with
> > visual basic. Yuck!
> >
> > So I'm going to stick with what I've written, as it gets around
> > that bizarre little problem. Within the regular search,
> > searching for ^p will find everything that has been assigned to
> > ^p, whether it has been correctly translated to the unicode ^13
> > value or not.
> >
> > Have I mentioned lately that I hate Word? grin.
> >
> > Judy s.
> >
> >
> > Soronel Haetir wrote:
> >> They are in the Word help files, the only ones that appear useful
> are
> >> ^13 for paragraph and ^12 for section break.
> >>
> >> On 9/19/09, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> Yep, there is a reason. I didn't know the sequence that Word will
> >>> recognized for paragraph marks was ^13 and that it would work
> >>> properly when wild cards were selected. Grin. So I've been
> >>> using the tilde sequence to get that to let me use wild cards to
> >>> replace a paragraph mark.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for asking about it because you've solved a frustration
> >>> for me with your post! smile.
> >>>
> >>> Soronel, do you have a listing or a url for a listing of the code
> >>> equivalents like this one that are used and recognized
> >>> specifically in Word that you can share? I've never found one
> >>> that gave the ^13 equivalent for the paragraph mark when I've
> >>> looked. There are other Word-restricted special characters that
> >>> I'd like to know the codes to so I can search for them in the
> >>> wild card search this way.
> >>>
> >>> Judy s.
> >>>
> >>> Soronel Haetir wrote:
> >>>> Is there a reason you do the tilde replace rather than use wild-
> cards
> >>>> and find ^13(a-z]) and replace with \1 ?
> >>>>
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