[bksvol-discuss] Re: Openbook users
- From: "Donna Goodin" <goodindo@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 09:08:10 -0400
Hi Julie,
I have used Kurzweil for years and am a devoted fan. I personally like it
much better than what I've seen of Open Book, but that is, of course, a
personal preference.
Take care,
Donna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Morales" <inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 1:45 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Openbook users
> Hi, Donna. I hope you'll be as happy with Kurzweil as I am...and I'm sure
> you will be. Take care.
> Julie Morales
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 7:27 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Openbook users
>
>
> As a recovering OpenBook user, I feel your pain regarding the com vs. corn
> issue. Irronically, OpenBook also frequently misinterprets rn
combinations
> as m, turning a barn into a bam and a corner into a comer. Go figure! My
> off-the-shelf Fine
> Reader made all those issues go away. Thanks to my employer, I am about
to
> explore the world of Kurzweil. It will be interesting to see firsthand
how
> it compares. I hope I won't suffer compatibility issues with JFW and
> Windows 2003. Upgrading systems always makes me so anxious as I just
> assume the worst will occur. I'm only so pesimistic when software is
> involved. <grin>
>
> Peace and Hope,
>
> Donna
>
> Original Message:
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> From: talmage@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:01:30 -0400
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Openbook users
>
>
> Hi to all the Openbook users,
>
> I would like to request that you go into your spelling corrections
> dictionary, and delete com becomes corn. I'm not sure at all who the one
> was that originally decided to put it in the corrections dictionary, but I
> believe it was ill advised. I am very tired of reading about: accornpany,
> becornes, cornpanies, cornmanders, etc. I can't conceive of why they did
> this, especially when you consider all the words with com in them, as
> opposed to corn.
> Another word in the dictionary that could use attention is tom becomes
> torn. I guess the people at Freedom Scientific have a very low opinion of
> the success rate in recognizing o m combos, or should I say cornbos. If
> the Openbook users don't want to do away altogether with the tom becomes
> torn, they can at least make it a case sensitive search. This would then
> preclude our creating a whole new group of people with very sheik names
> like Torn Bradley, Torn Miller, Torn Smith, etc.
> Being an Openbook user myself, I have already ditched the corn one, and at
> least for a while I'll try the torn as a case sensitive conversion.
> Thank you for reading, or should I say listening to / feeling, my ranting.
>
> Dave
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