[bksvol-discuss] Word perfect mode, microsoft word mode , word perfect classic mode (5.1), word perfect legal mode, & word pad
- From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:32:07 -0400
Of the above word processing programs, I have tried and used to some small
succes and major failure, both Word perfect mode and word pad but have not
found a how to use and how to format program. It gives me too many options Of
which I know not how to choose. The books I scanned with K1000 at a view of a
20 font end up on this programs with print sizes ranging from 10, with an
occasional 8 or 9, all the way to 20 plus. Some of the time the corrections
take,, often they do not although I may have found a solution to that. I had
Openbook for a while but in the long run it took so long to catch on to some of
the oddities I was out of time.
Even simple things, like the fact that suddenly both Word Perfect and Word pad
showed up with a blue background, with no movement by me, and I could not
figure out how to go back to black on white.Half of the time when I try to fix
something it gets weird on me and I end up having to say "no" to the question
of saving the changes. Which means everything I spent hours trying to do had
to be erased because of something that happened in the last half hour.
Somewhere along the line, before I gave up on Genji, someone offered to talk me
through the formatting of one of the programs above. I would gladly accept
such help as I ow have no other program with which to validate the rtf files I
created from the K1000 scans. I still have one book of poetry which I had begun
to "scan" in the sense of puting the lines in the forms they should be so that
those with sight would see the lines with the indentations and lengths which
the poet intended. I was warned that the Bookshare computers would ignore my
work but I am hoping that whomsoever makes such decisions and programs those
computers will understand the importance of the visiual image as well as the
sound.
Few people read poetry well, even the poets themselves. Vachel Lindsay read
his with a nasal Tennessee Twang similar to the sound of Tennyson's
Linconshire accent at least as recorded by Edison on his wax scrolls. Both
wrote poetry best spoken by a bass-baritone. And they galloped their way
thrrough the lines as though they were racing to see how quickly they could
finish. I have listened to the artificial voice and have been delighted at how
well they read but it seems to me, or it my be my prejudiced ear, that they do
better with poetry that is in the correct line form. In poetry in the html
books I have downloaded the reader tries to go by punctuation but seems to be
confused even there with the line length of the standard prose length.
I would like to finish validating this book and putting the lines the way they
are in the book itself. I have it and was following page by page, checking all
the lines though I could fix most of them withoug having to check more than
once or twice per poem unless there was an internal change. It was going very
quickly when I could work with a scan large enough for me to see. If someone
can help me I would be greatful and could then look forward to validating books
from the list which I have already planned on doing.
With hope and gratitude,
Amy
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