[bksvol-discuss] Re: Openbook users
- From: "Donna Goodin" <goodindo@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:29:41 -0400
Hi all,
On a rather amusing related note, Openbook isn't the only software with
this problem. I submitted the book Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott
Daavidson last fall, which I'd scanned with Kurzweil. When I finally got
around to reading the book myself this spring, I found the following, well,
interesting error. There is a character in the book named Pomeroy, who is
called Pom for short. Guess you can see where this goes. Pomeroy came out
just fine, but throughout the text the guy is called Porn, whenever his
nickname is used. *grin*
Take care,
Donna
----- Original Message -----
From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:01 AM
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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