Hi Gerald,
Dave
Dave,
I've already got a couple of yours saved. I've been meaning to tell you that OpenBook's been working better since I turned off it's speech and switch to using JAWS with it. I saved the one about switching to Natural Voices in OpenBook, too.
I didn't bother to save the message, but I've already gone in and deleted COM to CORN in the OCR correction dictionary, too. Now I know why I had so much of a problem with that in the Honorverse short stories and Generation Warriors. I need to take some time and go through the dictionary to see if there's other entries that are giving me problems. I suspect that there's a NEEDLER for NEEDIER in there since I kept having to change NEEDIER back to NEEDLER in the three books I submitted this weekend.
Gerald
Gerald
-----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of talmage@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:45 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: clearing out line breaks
Hi Gerald,
Thanks for the info. I have to admit, my recommendations, and cautions, for doing global replaces are generic in nature. While I use MS Word, I do so only reluctantly. I haven't really found a word processor that I could say I really like since DOS days and Word Perfect 5.1P. So ok, I'm a dinosaur. I will however, move your message to my saved mail mailbox in case I want to refer to it in the future.
Dave
At 12:07 PM 3/14/2005, you wrote: >OK, I tried to stay out of this because I knew if I got started, I'd have >trouble stopping <smile>. > >There aren't always Manual Line Breaks at the end of lines. Sometimes it's >Paragraph Markers. That's why you need to look to see what you're dealing >with like Kelly said. You can do this with Ctrl-Shift-8 in Word. > >Paragraph Markers (^p) are what you get when you press Enter in Word. You >get Manual Line Breaks by pressing Shift-Enter in Word. > >Some other handy symbols to know are ^m for Manual Page Breaks (Ctrl-Enter), >^t for tab, and ^w for whitespace. For those of you who aren't familiar >with the term whitespace, it's the invisible characters between words like >spaces and tabs. > >If you decide to remove line feeds, then you may want to remove the >whitespace at the beginning and end of lines before removing ^p's or ^l's >from the end of the lines to prevent you from getting multiple spaces >between words. Also, since you can't be guaranteed that there are spaces at >the end of lines without checking every individual line, then it's better to >remove the white space at the beginning and end of the line, then replace >the ^l or ^p with a Space instead of nothing. This will keep you from >concatenating two words by accident and getting multiple spaces between >words. To remove whitespace only at the beginning or end of a line when >Paragraph Markers are at the end of lines, replace ^p^w with ^p or ^w^p with >^p. You could also replace ^w^p^w with ^p if you want to do both at the >same time. > >If you do remove the whitespace at the beginning or end of lines, then you >will not have whitespace on blank lines and can remove multiple blank lines >by doing something like replacing ^p^p^p with ^p^p. This doesn't work for >blank lines at the top of a page. For that you'll need to do something like >replacing ^m^p^p with ^m^p. Any time you set out to remove multiple blank >lines, you will want to continue doing the search and replace until Word >tells you that no changes were made. > >The reason I used the Paragraph Markers in the example above is that if >you're dealing with Paragraph Markers at the end of lines, and you remove >multiple blank lines, then you can replace two consecutive Paragraph Markers >with Manual Line Breaks (^p^p with ^l^l), then remove the Paragraph Markers >at the end of the lines, then change the Manual Line Breaks back to >Paragraph Markers. Of course, this would only work if your document happens >to have blank lines between paragraphs. > >In case you didn't realize it. You can also add a blank line to the top and >bottom of a page by replacing ^m with ^p^m^p. This may cause you to have >one or more multiple blank lines at the top or bottom of a page though, but >you should already be able to deal with that from an earlier example. If >you do decide to add or delete blank lines at the top or bottom of pages, >then I'd suggest doing this before you strip headers so you can check every >page as you go. > >If you do decide to make changes using a global search and replace, then >take precautions like Kelly said and make a backup copy of the file before >you start experimenting with it. Also, like Sarah said, read through it, >(or at the very least skim through it and spot check a large part of it) >after making global search and replaces. Also, spell check it again after >doing the global search and replaces. like Tony said. And, not to leave out >Dave, you can get yourself into trouble quickly if you're not careful. As >he said, there's no more accurate way than doing it manually. The only >problem with that is that it's tedious. OK, did I forget to acknowledge >anyone? <smile> > >Also, you don't have to hit Alt-E E to get to the Search and Replace dialog >box in Word. Ctrl-H will also take you there. > >See, I told you I'd have a problem stopping once I got started <smile>. > >OK, Sue, I think you wanted to live dangerously and cause a lot of trouble >this week. This should help you get started. <grin> > >Gerald >-----Original Message----- >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tony Baechler >Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 2:13 AM >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: clearing out line breaks > > >Hi list. I'll just add that to do a similar thing with Word, or at least >Word 2000, search for ^l to find the line breaks. One really easy way to >fix split words is to go into the find and replace dialogue with Alt, E, >E. Search for the following in the find edit box: > >-^l > >Replace with nothing. Instantly your split words are gone. This also >takes out the line break, so you might have lines with only one or two >words on them. I don't have a good way to solve that. Also make sure you >do a spell check because some compound words that should be hyphenated will >need to have the dash put back in, like "twentyone" instead of "twenty-one."