[bksvol-discuss] Re: Stripping headers

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:20:30 -0800 (PST)

I do globally replace, and on a few occasions a word or name was deleted from 
the text, but since I read everything while I proof it was easy to find the 
where the missing word belonged. smile
Cindy

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--- On Mon, 12/21/09, Lori Castner <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Lori Castner <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Stripping headers
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, December 21, 2009, 12:44 PM
> 
> 
>  
>  
> 
> 
>  
> People have made several
> useful suggestions for 
> stripping headers with global search and replace, but even
> so I always remove 
> them manually as I read through the book.  For me,
> removing them manually 
> just feels safer.
>  
> Sometimes I go through the
> text page by page and 
> remove the headers before reading the book; that way the
> text reads more 
> smoothly and without interruption.  But either way, I
> remove them one by 
> one!
>  
> But I do proofread fewer
> books than many of you 
> do.
>  
> Lori C.
>  
> 
>   ----- Original Message
> ----- 
>   From: 
>   EVAN REESE 
>   
>   To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
>   
>   Sent: Monday,
> December 21, 2009 12:27 
>   PM
>   Subject:
> [bksvol-discuss] Re: Stripping 
>   headers
>   
> 
>   Thanks, Jamie. I have
> suggested this before. 
>   Oftentimes, there is a tab after the header and before
> the page number on the 
>   right page, and a tab before the header and after the
> page number on the left 
>   page. I have used this technique of removing headers with
> their associated 
>   tabs to eliminate thousands of headers without fear of
> removing text that I 
>   shouldn't.
>    
>   It is also true, as you
> say, that search and 
>   replace should always be used with care.
>    
>   Evan
>    
>   
>     ----- Original Message
> ----- 
>     From: 
>     Jamie Yates, 
>     CPhT 
>     To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
>     
>     Sent: Monday,
> December 21, 2009 1:33 
>     PM
>     Subject:
> [bksvol-discuss] Re: Stripping 
>     headers
>     
> 
>     Lots of times there is a tab after the header. If
> you search for the 
>     text plus a tab you might have better luck in doing a
> global replace, but I 
>     recommend using a global replace very carefully.
>      
>     For example if it is The Catcher in the Rye that
> is the header look for 
>     The Catcher in the Rye^t (^t is the tab symbol in Word
> 2003).
>     
> -- 
> Jamie in Michigan
> 
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> 


      

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