I have found that when converting from ARK to RTF there is a tendency to find that a lower case d has been inserted at the beginning of each and every line with a triple d at paragraph breaks. I wonder if this is related. "I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world." Eugene V. Debs The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html _ table with 2 columns and 6 rows Subj: [bksvol-discuss] Re: dis dis dis Date: 11/22/2009 3:34:22 AM Eastern Standard Time From: popularplace@xxxxxxxxx Reply-to: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from the Internet (Details) table end Hmmm. I have no idea what that could be or what caused it--something couls have bled in fron the next page, but 3 "did" in a row? Looks as isf your scanner is trying to "dis" you. smile Cindy Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites below Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List Books Being Scanned List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List --- On Sat, 11/21/09, Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] dis dis dis > To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 10:37 PM > Hi everyone! > > Every once in a while in the book I'm proofing, there is > "dis" in all lowercase letters. It is not part of a > word, because it doesn't make any sense when trying to fit > it with any word. > > One example was a sentence something like, > > When I returned to the office I disfound > > blah blah, blah, (whatever the rest of the sentence was). > > Hey, could "disfound" mean lost? (chuckle)? > > Sometimes the dis will be three times in succession as this > line that I just came across: > > sure knows her detective novels. I wonder dis dis dis > > I'm just curious. Has anyone come across this curious > thing? Is there something about some OCR software that > would incert such a thing when it couldn't recognize > characters or could it be junk characters? > > It's certainly not a big deal. It's just an odd > little thing. > > Debby > > > -- > Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't > have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless; it is > like chasing the wind.--Ecclesiastes 6:9 NLT > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. To get a list of available commands, put the > word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.