[bksvol-discuss] Re: Tab Characters in the Table of Contents

  • From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:07:13 -0800

Hi Debby,

If you're certain that your book won't have tables, then you can pretty
safely do a global replace of tabs with spaces.  If there are tables though,
that replacement might cause a problem.  When proofreading straight fiction,
I don't worry about doing that replacement and causing any harm.  However,
with nonfiction, I worry more, and might wait to do that replacement until
I've read the book.

Just what I do.

Mayrie

 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Debby Franson
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:48 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Tab Characters in the Table of Contents

Hi Monica and everyone!

Thanks for the tab command.

When stripping out tabs, should I take each one individually or can I do a
Replace All command?  I would hate to wreck anything that was meant to stay
as it was.

Debby

At 05:13 PM 11/2/2009, Monica Willyard wrote
>Hi Debby. In Word, the tab character is ^t  and in Kurzweil, in case 
>you use it, it's  \t
>
>
>Monica Willyard
>"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Debby Franson
>Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 5:45 PM
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Tab Characters in the Table of Contents
>
>Hi Bob!
>
>How do I search for a tab character?  I don't know what the symbol is?
>
>Debby
>
>At 09:35 PM 10/31/2009, Bob wrote
> >Hi Debbie.
> >I think the bookshare tool takes care of this for you. However, if 
> >you wanted to be sure, you could probably do a gloabal find and 
> >replace of tabs to spaces.
> >
> >Bob
> >
> >"We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of 
> >us will live on in the future we make,"
> >Senator Edward M. Kennedy
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Debby Franson" 
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> >To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:10 PM
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Tab Characters in the Table of Contents
> >
> >
> >>Hi everyone!
> >>
> >>The book I am proofing now has tab characters just before each 
> >>number of the numbered chapters, right after the number of the 
> >>chapter, and just before the page number of the chapter unless it is 
> >>the first character on a line, so there is only the chapter number 
> >>immediately after the tab character.  They are bumped up against 
> >>whatever comes before or after them.  Should I remove them and just 
> >>put a space in their place?  It doesn't mess up the formatting of 
> >>the table of contents, in fact it is formatted perfectly with the 
> >>tabs, but I have never seen them in a table of contents until this book.
> >>
> >>Debby
> >>
> >>
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