[bksvol-discuss] Re: one more question on symbols
- From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:56:52 -0500
I just have to agree with Evan here. I never do globals on things like
that. I do replace on strings like corn when I am doing it with
OpenBook, but I have it ask me about each occurrence of a string after
I've seen it several times. I would do that in .rtf, too, but I tend
to mostly read the book. Most of the Mdash I've seen have been legit.
Cindy Lou Ray. Each day is a new adventure.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 8:53 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: one more question on symbols
Those particular characters could well be correct, and intended in the
book.
I wouldn't replace them with nothing unless I was very sure they were
not
intended. You should find the context in which they occur and try to
determine whether they are just junk, or are there because the author
meant
for them to be there. Em dashes are used often in many books. I am
less sure
of the usage of the en dash, but it, too, is a legitimate character.
Be
careful about removing them. You certainly don't want to put them in a
global replace field and replace them with nothing all through the
book! It
may be safer to do that with many of the characters in the list that
was
just sent up, although I would still look at the context. You never
know for
sure what might be in any given book for perfectly legitimate reasons.
For
instance, if I had replaced the Registered mark, ASCII 174, in the
last
book I scanned, it would have created a mess. I also scanned one book
with
quite a few bullets in it. Global find and replace should be used with
great
caution.
All of which means ultimately, inefficient as it is, there's no real
substitute for reading the book. That's the best way of ensuring that
you
know what is intentional and what is junk.
Good luck.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terra Syslo" <tlsyslo@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:15 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: one more question on symbols
> It sounds like em dash and en dash.
>
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> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 8:05 PM
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> What does your screen reader say they are?
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> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 4:44 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] one more question on symbols
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>
>> Okay, hopefully after this I'll be done for questions for a while.
>> Here
>> are
>> a couple symbols I see a lot, and I don't know what they are and
>> how to
>> handle them.
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