[bksvol-discuss] Re: Strange Character
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:28:50 -0400
Dear Jake, if you're still there, or anyone who can help
I'm still struggling with files from several different, reliable and careful
submittors, which are full of superscripts and subscripts. They are also
showing up in the careful scans I do using K1000.
Visually, sometimes I can see that letters in a superscript are higher than
they should be and the reverse for the subscripts.
Sometimes when there are a group of blank lines, as I arrow through them,
Jaws will even say begin super script, end superscript.
The superscript problem often occurs on and around chapter titles.
I've tried highlighting the lines and going to font in Word 2003 and making
sure sub and superscript aren't checked. They never are checked so I can't
uncheck them. I use Control b to put bold on or off of highlighted words. I
use Control I for italics and bold u for underline. I just can't find a way
to rid my validations or prevalidations of these sub and superscripts.
I should qualify. If I delete the affected lines or words, and delete a line
or word before it, I can retype that material and it won't be super and sub
scripted. This is time consuming. But this doesn't always work and I've
actually submitted some books with unresolved super/sub script issues.
I don't know what the tools will do. If I knew they would ignore the
superscripts and subscripts, then I guess I could ignore them, too, though I
would rather be able to correct them. Since they are appearing where we
don't want them, we would be lucky if the tools ignored them. On the other
hand, in math equations and superscript numbers in text indicating footnotes
or end notes, etc, we are sad when the tools don't indicate such numbers are
superscripted because we have taken time and care to put them in. I do it by
writing a number as usual, highlighting it, going to options in the tools
menu, and tabbing to superscript and entering to check the box for it, then
tabbing to OK. When I exit menu the number is elevated as it was in the
text.
By the way, with good advice from Evan, I am now deleting those nonbreaking
spaces, all of them at once with a global replace of their number replaced
with nothing. You need to turn the numlock on the numpad and type the number
while holding the alt key down. This is my way of demonstrating I'm
progressing, though new problems like that with the sub/superscript are
still cropping up.
Technical advice helps so much!
Thanks in advance.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 7:49 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Strange Character
Hi Christina,
It sounds similar to a problem I had earlier this year with some files my
university gave me. The culpret in that circumstance was an optional
hyphen. In Word 2003 you can use the Find/Replace dialogue to eliminate
them. You would want to try replacing ^- with nothing.
Best of luck,
Jake
Jake Brownell
QA Engineer, Bookshare.org
jake.b@xxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina" <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 4:36 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Strange Character
Hello. I am still having this problem. I will explain as clearly as I
can what I've done to attempt to resolve it and I welcome any advice you
can give me.
I'm using one of the older versions of Microsoft Word, 2003, I think and
JAWS 7.1 to validate this book.
JAWS pronounces some words differently than normal, prompting me to go
over them character by character. There is a pause between some of the
letters but JAWS doesn't read anything. I tried selecting this mystery
character by hitting shift and then the right arrow, so that I can do the
Search and Replace thing and remove all instances of it from the
document, but it doesn't select anything. I had a sighted friend look at
the document and he said that there is nothing in between the letters but
that some of the words are in a different font. So, I went into the Edit
menu and hit Select All and then I went to the Format menu and changed
the font to Arial but that still didn't solve the problem. I tried
switching it to Times New Roman next; still no luck.
Does anyone have any ideas? Is there an easy fix for this? There are a
lot of words in this book like this and so I'd rather fix them all at
once than word by word.
Thanks for any help.
Christina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 5:16 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Strange Character
Christine, its extended ascii value is 173. U didn't tell us what
software you're using to validate with, but, probably the easiest way
to fix this if u have search & replace is the following:
1) Put your cursor on the weird character;
2) select it, in most word processors it's shift right arrow;
3) Copy it, usually control c in most word processors;
4) Use your software's search & replace function--control h in word &
clones, sometimes control r in other packages;
5) Paste the character into the search box--control v in most word
processors;
6) Go to the replace with box & don't enter anything;
7) Hit the replace all, & they're history.
HTH.
On 6/28/08, Christina <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello, all. I am currently validating a BSO of Dragon Bones by
Patricia
Briggs. There is one, or possibly several different, character/s that
keep
appearing. Could someone please tell me what these characters are?
I've
copied some of the words that contain them below.
I put my cursor on it and pressed the Insert key, I use JAWS, and the
number
five and I heard a bunch of zeros followed by 255255255. I have no
idea
what that means.
Thank you.
Christina
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