[bksvol-discuss] Re: How-to
- From: "Bob W" <rwiley45@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 06:21:28 -0500
Hi Kim.
Could you tell us what tools you have available to you?
You are right, a spellcheck in word would be very time consuming.
I use Kurzweil to proofread books and couldn't live without it. It has a
feature called "rank spelling" that does a quick spellcheck of your book it
gives you a list of uniquely misspelled words and how many times they occur
in the book.
It has another feature called "apply corrections" which looks for known
scanning errors and corrects them. I don't like this feature as well because
it does all its corrections without giving you the opportunity to say
whether or not apply each one.
Let us know what tools you use to proofread books with and perhaps we can be
more helpful.
Bob
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you just did? Don't do that.' Douglas Adams
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 4:23 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] How-to
Hi, since my Braille display isn't co-operating with me while I'm
reading and proofreading for mistakes, How do I use the Bookshare tools
for spell-checking the file? I suppose I can do it through Word, but I'm
rather stumped. I can spell-check an email message just by hitting the
f7 key, but going through a 500-page (approximately) book is rather
daunting, to say the least. I've kept the file in rtf format and don't
wish to muck about with it if I can avoid it. Please give very detailed
answers as I think I'll need them. Assume I don't know what I'm doing
and proceed from there (smile). Regards, Kim Friedman. P.S.: The more
excruciatingly detailed you are, the more I'll probably be able to grasp
any concepts you might have to share with me. K.
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