[bksvol-discuss] Re: Help with Software, Please!

  • From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 14:02:57 -0700

Hi Valerie and Sandi,
 
Thanks, Valerie, for clarifying exactly what you're seeing.  All right
quotes is very weird, but is consistent with what I used to see when
proofreading scans done with OpenBook.  I have no idea why OpenBook does
that particular odd thing.
 
Here is the find and replace sequence for replacing smart quotes with
regular quotes, Sandi.  I should have included it in my last note.  Just in
case turning off the autoformatting doesn't fix the problem completely.
 
I'm including instructions for removing both opening and closing quotes just
for the sake of thoroughness.  I suggest running both steps, just in case it
helps, and because it only takes about five extra seconds to do the extra
step.
 
I hope it helps and that you can figure out why all of your paragraph marks
disappeared.  I've never seen that before except with Kurzweil 3000.  Good
luck, and happy scanning and proofreading!
 
See below for the instructions for find and replace in Word to replace smart
quotes with regular quotes.
 
Mayrie
 
Convert smart quotes to standard quotes

To Remove Smart Quotes Using Find And Replace:

In the find box type: ^0147

In the replace box type: ^0034

Replace all.

In the find box type: ^0148

In the replace box type: ^0034

Replace all.


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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Valerie Maples
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 1:44 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Help with Software, Please!


And just for everyone's information, aside from many (not all) pages missing
many or all paragraph breaks and the only right quotes appearing so grammar
check told her to eliminate the preceding space, Sadi did an amazing job for
first projects, including being a real sweetheart and moving pagination to
the top to help me navigate easier. 

So glad to have another enthusiastic scanner, so hope someone can help her
determine if there is a setting to better retain paragraphing in particular.
also, if someone (Mayrie?) can give Sandi the ASCII code for right curly to
be substituted with straight quotes in a global find and replace before she
edits, that would be helpful.  Odd that they all appeared to be right
quotes.

Thanks, folks!


Valerie



On Aug 6, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Sandi Ryan wrote:



Hi Group,
 
I have received excellent feedback from my first two scanned books, and they
contained a problem I'd rather not perpetuate.
 
Somewhere in the process, my document was stripped of paragraph breaks.  I
promise I did not do this with keystrokes or menus.  Also, the quotation
marks are curly rather than straight.
 
I use Word 2007 and OpenBook 8 at this point for scanning and correction.  I
scanned in RTF, and the text came out really well.
 
What is happening to cause this problem?
 
If you can help, please either reply to this message or e-mail me off-list
atsjryan2@xxxxxxxxxx
 
Thanks much.
 
Sandi

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