[bksvol-discuss] Re: Maybe I'm A Moron

  • From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:37:03 -0400

Nope, it's not on Step 1. You can just send it up again in that case.

Evan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 11:48 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Maybe I'm A Moron


>I can't find it in the list of items to validate.  Can you check if I
> uploaded it correctly?  I never got to a thank you page, just a page has
> expired notice.
>
>
> Chris Hofstader
> CUNY, BSO, ATG, Odds and Ends
> email: cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Blog: http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com
> Skype: BlindChristian
> phone: 727-896-6393
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of EVAN REESE
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 11:42 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Maybe I'm A Moron
>
> Great! Your welcome.
>
> I'm partial to Philly cheese steaks, so keep that in mind. <grin>
>
> Evan
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 11:33 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Maybe I'm A Moron
>
>
>> Evan,
>>
>> Thank you so much!  The replacement with the paragraph breaks did the
>> trick.
>> I owe you a sandwich.
>>
>> cdh
>>
>>
>> Chris Hofstader
>> CUNY, BSO, ATG, Odds and Ends
>> email: cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Blog: http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com
>> Skype: BlindChristian
>> phone: 727-896-6393
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of EVAN REESE
>> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 11:27 AM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Maybe I'm A Moron
>>
>> This is not that difficult. You should have done the second suggestion
>> first; that is, replaced the section break ^b with the page break ^m, or
>> probably better, replaced the section break ^b with a page break
>> surrounded
>> by hard returns, ^p^m^p.
>>
>> It's really as simple as that.
>>
>> Evan
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 10:50 AM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Maybe I'm A Moron
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just uploaded the book, "The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe,
>>> Didion, Thompson and the New Journalism Revolution."  I spell checked it
>>> and
>>> think I got most of the OCR errors out but some words seem to have been
>>> concatenated that should be separated and a number of apostrophes are
>>> followed by an "s" when they probably should not be (as in Chris's 
>>> versus
>>> Chris').
>>>
>>> A week or so ago, I got an email that says that to get rid of section
>>> breaks
>>> in Word, I should search for ^b and replace with an empty field.  The
>>> book,
>>> as I arrowed through claimed that their was a section and page break at
>>> every place where the actual book had a hard page.  By removing the
>>> section
>>> breaks, though, Word also removed the page breaks and I ended up with an
>>> approximately 335 page book becoming a 17 page book with text wrapped in
>>> all
>>> sorts of weird ways that made it entirely unreadable.  I then went onto
>>> the
>>> next suggestion, replace all ^b section breaks with ^m page breaks. 
>>> This
>>> resulted in exactly the same thing.
>>>
>>> Jim Homme and I have been pounding our heads against the page break
>>> problem
>>> in the Drupal book I scanned over a month ago and now, in a far less
>>> difficult book, I still cannot manage to get beyond the page break
>>> problem.
>>> Am I just a moron who is missing something obvious or is this whole scan
>>> and
>>> validate task a whole lot more complicated than I had ever guessed?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> cdh
>>>
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