From: Martha Rafter <mlhr@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: proofreading questions
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, July 28, 2012, 12:57 PM
Hi John,
You're very welcome, John; that's what we're here
for. Enjoying reading a really good book is the reward
we get when we volunteer for this job. Oh, also the
$2.50 toward our membership. Have a great day!
Marty
-----Original Message----- From: John Simpson
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 1:41 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: proofreading questions
Thanks all for the many helpful suggestions. Here are the
strategies that I have adopted.
For the apostrophe issue, I am doing a 'find and replace'
putting the letter with the superscript apostrophe and it's
following letter in the 'find' and then the letter followed
by an apostrophe followed by the final letter in the
'replace' and then doing a global replace. I figure I will
have to do that at most 26 times (smile).
The page break difference between book.google.com and
BookShare can certainly be explained by different editions
of the same book, so I am going with the BookShare .rtf. So
this is essentially a non-issue.
I am solving the missing m-dash problem by doing a find on
two spaces and then replacing it with a -- where the context
indicates that was what was in the original. Having looked
at the books.google.com version, it is clear to me that the
author made liberal use of dashes in her writing style.
Unfortunately, there are a number of double spaces that
clearly do not need to be replaced with dashes, so this is a
one-at-a-time process.
I have also appreciated previous discussions on ellipses,
which the author also uses with some frequency.
It appears that this book is going to take some time to get
corrected. It's a good thing I'm enjoying the book itself.
Once again, thanks ever so much for all the help and
suggestions. You are truly an awesome group.
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 9:51 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: proofreading questions
But Anne, the apostrophe belongs between the last two
letters.
On 7/28/2012 7:30 AM, Ann Parsons wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> John, I'll try to answer your questions. Perhaps
others more wiser
> than I will do better.
>
>
> Original message:
>
>> I have several questions about the book that I am
currently proofing.
>> First off, words that are followed by an "'s" have
the apostrsphe
>> over the penultimate letter (e.g. Martin̓s).
>
> This depends on how the term is used. If it is a
possessive,
> referring to something belonging to Martin, e.g.
Martin's book,
> Martin's car, etc. Then leave the apostrophe
where it is. Some
> people when referring to a family named Martin might
write Martin's
> as in The Martin's and I went to the theater. I'd
tend to leave these
> apostrophes too. Also if there is a character
called Martin in the
> book the text may refer to him as: Martin's
coming. Or: Martin's
> leaving at 10:00 you better catch him before he
goes. These are all
> legitimate reasons for using an apostrophe, and you
have to know why
> the apostrophe is there before you summarily nuke it.
>
>
>> Secondly, I have gone to books.google.com to take a
look at this
>> book. My question here is whether Google has a fair
representation of
>> the book. I know that all but one page are present,
but within the
>> first several chapters, the page breaks in the
scanned version .rtf
>> are not in the same place as they are in Google's
copy. I certainly
>> don't want to have to go through the entire book
changing pagination
>> based on Google. I do have a hold at my local
library for the print
>> copy that will help answer this question. Any other
advice would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>
> If the page breaks are in your text, go with them, so
long as the
> numbering sequence is right.
>
>> The third question is that in the scanned version
that I have from
>> BookShare there are frequent instances of two
spaces, rather than
>> one. The sense of the book is that there should be
a comma where the
>> first space is. However, when looking at the Google
version, this
>> separator is an m dash surrounded by spaces. All of
these dashes have
>> been removed. Again, my question is whether this is
a function of the
>> scan volunteer the scanner hardware or the OCR
software.
>
> John, the M-dash needed to be removed from the text
because it doesn't
> transfer well into the Braille files for
Bookshare. What should have
> happened is that the scanner replace the M-dash with
two hyphens, like
> this --. I'd do a global find and replace and
replace the two spaces
> with two hyphens. You will probably find a couple
of occasions where
> you've replaced these chars wrongly, but fixing five
mal-replacements
> is better than trying to manually replace all these
instances.
>
> Hope I've been helpful? If I knew more about your
apostrophe problem,
> I could probably help better. I'd need to see the
whole sentence to
> get the context in which the apostrophe was used.
>
> Ann P.
>
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