[bksvol-discuss] Re: extra aspces between words; was Missing chapter headings

From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:47:35 -0700 (PDT)
I sidn't know the stripper removed extra spaces. I remove them globally, i.e. I 
copy them, paste them into the replace space an put one space in the replace 
with space. I use Wordto proofread and thus to do this

Cindy
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--- On Sat, 3/28/09, Alyssa <LyssasSong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Alyssa <LyssasSong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing chapter headings
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 10:55 AM
> Monica, this is very interesting. I
> have been removing extra spaces by hand
> because they annoy me. I've also seen places where spaces
> are at the
> beginnings of lines of text. Will the stripper also remove
> them? As for page
> numbers, I have some books here with them at the bottoms of
> pages. I'm just
> going to leave them that way to see what happens when I
> submit them.
> Granted, the proofer may move them, but we shall see. I'll
> also watch a book
> when it has them at the bottoms of pages when I am proofing
> instead of
> scanning.
> 
> 
>  
> -Alyssa
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Monica Willyard
> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 10:10 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing chapter headings
> 
> Bob, we'd be miserable if they took away the stripper. It
> does a lot of
> things for us that would make reading even more
> uncomfortable if we didn't
> have it. It doesn't only strip headers. Did you all know
> that if you put
> chapter headings or story titles in a larger font than the
> normal text, the
> new stripper will recognize them as chapter or story titles
> and will make
> them sections that can be navigated in the daisy files? It
> makes moving by
> chapter or finding something in the table of contents much
> easier. The new
> stripper also recognizes the word "chapter" on the first
> line of text and is
> coded so that it won't strip that line. So you don't have
> to use a line of
> asterisks or write the word chapter and then write chapter
> 1 on the next
> line. You can just write chapter one on the top line. The
> stripper removes
> excessive spaces between words in our books, strips out
> extra blank lines,
> numbers pages for daisy navigation, and converts the odd
> quote marks that
> Openbook makes into standard quotation marks. I agree with
> Mayrie that it's
> a pain to work with when you have a book with page numbers
> at the bottoms of
> pages or where the first page of a story has no number.
> That's why the
> ability to recognize a larger font or the word "chapter"
> was put in place. I
> generally go ahead and number the page in question to make
> sure it's
> processed correctly since the stripper would just number it
> anyway. If all
> of our proofreaders were as careful and thorough as Mayrie,
> Jill, and others
> we wouldn't really need a stripper. Without Braille access,
> there's no way a
> proofreader using speech could remove the extra spaces,
> lines, and other
> formatting scannos by hand. Even using Braille, it takes
> forever. Kt's not
> perfect, but it's much better than the tool we had before.
> The staff are
> open to input too if there is a way to make the stripper
> better.
> 
> Monica Willyard
> "The best way to predict the future is to create it." --
> Peter Drucker
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