[bksvol-discuss] Re: eliminating line breaks
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 20:58:46 -0700
Hi Robert!
Oh, those sound cool! Please, once you've ironed out all the
difficulties, please, do share what you learn! Folks may cringe, as I do at
learning new things that they think they might find difficult or confusing,
but they'll thank you soundly for the quick fixes later! So glad I'm not
the only one experiencing sluggish Word. I have the same ram as you, so am
comforted.
Good luck figuring out all that complicated sounding Word stuff! I
think folks will be really excited to learn the things that you've talked
about.
Mayrie
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Riddle
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 6:56 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: eliminating line breaks
Yeah, I know what you mean. There are some steps you can do to speed word
up, such as eliminating the office assistant and other items, but word still
is rather memory intensive. I've got a nice fast computer here with a gig
of ram and I still get word being as slow as molasses going uphill in a
blizard sometimes.
However, word does have some useful things for quick proofing fixes, such as
the ability to use regular expressions. As far as I know, k1000 and O B.
don't offer those. Some cool things you can do with regular expressions, or
regex, include:
1. Header elimination
2. Fixing line breaks and joining hyphenated words that result from same
3. Fixing extra paragraph marks.
I'm just learning about all this myself, so I don't know how to use them
properly, but I'm working on it. Once I get my macros made, I'll offer them
up for general use by the community, if sufficient interest is shown.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 8:19 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: eliminating line breaks
> Hi Robert,
>
> You're right. Unfortunately, I do my work in Kurzweil 1000 because
> it is much less resource intensive on my computer. I think my computer is
> allergic to Word. Laugh. If there is a word more ponderous than sluggish,
> perhaps glacier-like, it would describe how well I can do things in Word.
> I
> use it as little as possible! But you are right. A macro would be
> faster.
> I just avoid Word like the plague, probably more than the plague as I
> think
> about avoiding Word actively and never think about the plague. Laugh.
>
> Shutting up.
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Riddle
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 5:49 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: eliminating line breaks
>
> You should make a macro to do that. It'd make your life easier.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 7:30 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: eliminating line breaks
>
>
>> 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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