Evan. Any ideas on how to catch these?
Evan's way is going to work for sentences that are split in the middle. This
book, from reading the notes in the book history, has a lot of instances where
that isn't going to help. Here's an example where it won't work, from the book
history:
On page 15, add a blank space to replace the hard paragraph mark incorrectly
splitting apart the text between the words "mentioned" and "I mentioned" in the
sentences: "She seemed to clam up when family was mentioned. I mentioned
bringing
This is a case where there is a hard paragraph mark that shouldn't be there in
the middle of a series of sentences that the character is saying. You can tell
that it shouldn't be there because the first of the two sentences starts with a
double quote.
Does that make sense, in terms of what the problem is?
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One caveat for this method is that it will not show up a split paragraph with a
proper name on the next line. (They do happen from time to time.) I know of no
shortcut for finding those. Only a careful proofreading will catch them.
Fortunately, in a decent scan, they will probably be rare.
Evan
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Hey Larry, I had to chuckle at this, not at your expense, I assure you! Just
that it’s an easy thing to forget to check that case sensitivity box.
A little bonus for quality improvement I’ve noticed when I do this split
paragraph check is that sometimes it shows up junk characters, (which are
sometimes isolated letters), especially at the top or bottom of a page.
It really doesn’t take much time in K1000 since F3 repeats the search without
having to enter the search string again. I know Word has a key, or key combo,
for that as well, control-pagedown I think it is.
Evan
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Evan, I stand humbled and corrected, smile. It works beautifully when you set
match case to checked.
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The way I do it is to do a search for the paragraph symbol followed by all of
the lower case letters. I do it in K1000 after I’ve finished scanning, but you
can do it in Word as well.
Evan
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Hi Booksharian Friends,
Could someone who is blind or visually impaired please tell me what is the
easiest way to find hard paragraph returns in the middle of a paragraph? Must I
turn punctuation on in JAWS to do this or is there another way? Thanks in
advance?
Susan
