[bksvol-discuss] Re: Openbook users
- From: "CJ Vining" <Vining@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 12:56:51 -0400
LOL! I think, with this, and the message about the "snacks" mistake from a
few weeks ago, I should start a file about funny scanner mistakes. It's
cheap entertainment, anyway. won't take the place of Frasier, but...
Joanie
Donna said:
>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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