[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 Karen,
Uh, your idea would probably work, but truth is, I like efficient
and that sounds like more work than I'm doing already. Think I'll stick
with effective and less work. Just my opinion.
Mayrie
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Karen Harshfield
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 6:45 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: eliminating line breaks
Maybe I haven't thought this out the whole way, but why don't you look for
paragraphs that don't end with a period, question mark, exclamation point,
or quotation marks?
Perhaps because it's difficult to look for something that's not there
instead of something that is there.
You could use replace and find and change the good paragraph marks to
something else, and then go through and eliminate all the bad paragraph
marks, then go put the good paragraph marks back.
Sounds kind of goofy, and maybe error-prone. Whatever.
- Karen
At 05:30 PM 10/4/2008, you wrote:
>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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