[bksvol-discuss] Re: eliminating line breaks
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 17:30:04 -0700
Hi Cindy,
I guess since this is coming up twice now, I'll tell you how I deal
with those pesky line breaks where they don't belong, in the middle of
paragraphs. But first, to answer your direct question, yes, the bookshare
tools will get rid of the extra space between words if there are two spaces
instead of one. That's one thing the stripper is good for!
I know that you, like I, prefer to read your books in order to
validate them. However, I will admit to being a bit lazy. Not that I don't
want to do work, but if I can sit back and read without removing those pesky
paragraph marks in the middle of paragraphs, I will and do. I use the find
and replace dialogue to do this, which takes at most five minutes, then the
grand majority of inappropriate paragraph marks are gone before I ever start
reading. Here is what I do. Since I know that you personally use Word,
I'll tell you how I'd do it using word.
I know I'm stating the obvious here, but paragraphs generally begin
with a capital letter or a quotation mark. I have never seen a paragraph
begin with a lower case letter, so, what I look for are paragraphs beginning
with lower case letters and join them to the word before them with a space.
Does that make sense?
In the find box I would type ^pa
In the replace box I would type a (that is hit the spacebar followed by the
lower case letter a)
Then I replace all.
I do this with every lower case letter of the alphabet.
And yippee! Most of the extraneous line breaks are gone!
Now I can sit back and read without fixing each of those occurrences by hand
as they appear in my reading! Much smoother reading!
For those using Kurzweil 1000 the paragraph mark is represented in the find
box by typing \n (that is backslash followed by the letter n) then you type
the lower case letter you want to find.
Have I made sense, or just confused the masses? I love making
things easier on myself and allowing myself, however I can to sit back and
read with as few corrections during the reading process as possible.
Okay, I'm stopping now.
Mayrie
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 4:44 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] eliminating line breaks
It is what either submitter or validator needs to do. Depending on my mood,
since I read while I validate I either delete each line break manually or
blacken the paragraph, being careful to leave the break at the end of the
paragraph, and replace with a space, so two words don't run together.
Sometimes this leaves two spaces between words instead of one, but then
generally, at the end, replace two spaces with one; does the bookshare
conversion do that automatically, perhaps?
I've discovered, however, that with the first paragraph (each time one comes
back to the file) one has to eliminate the lines spaces by using just
"replace," not "replace all," or it makes the whole document one
paragraph--and unfortunately a couple of times I validated books where that
apparently had been done. After the first paragraph is done, "replace all"
will work with each new paragraph and you're safe as long as you don't hit
continue or whatever.
Cindy
--- On Sat, 10/4/08, Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Lord of the Rose
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4:15 PM
> Hi E.
>
> Guess what, I have a solution for this one too! I get rid
> of
> exactly what you're talking about in every book that I
> submit or validate
> because I find the extraneous line breaks annoying too! Do
> you want to hear
> it, or should I leave you alone?
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> E.
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 2:30 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Lord of the Rose
>
> The situation with Lord of the Rose does not involve
> multiple line
> breaks. it involves single line breaks as in
>
> He
> walked across
> the room.
> In the above sentence the only line break which ought to be
> there
> comes after the period.
> These linebreaks are obnoxious on a braille display.
>
> E.
>
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