[bksvol-discuss] Re: proofreading questions
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 07:30:22 -0400
Hi all,
John, I'll try to answer your questions. Perhaps others more wiser
than I will do better.
Original message:
I have several questions about the book that I am currently proofing.
First off, words that are followed by an "'s" have the apostrsphe over
the penultimate letter (e.g. Martin̓s).
This depends on how the term is used. If it is a possessive, referring
to something belonging to Martin, e.g. Martin's book, Martin's car,
etc. Then leave the apostrophe where it is. Some people when
referring to a family named Martin might write Martin's as in The
Martin's and I went to the theater. I'd tend to leave these
apostrophes too. Also if there is a character called Martin in the
book the text may refer to him as: Martin's coming. Or: Martin's
leaving at 10:00 you better catch him before he goes. These are all
legitimate reasons for using an apostrophe, and you have to know why
the apostrophe is there before you summarily nuke it.
Secondly, I have gone to books.google.com to take a look at this book.
My question here is whether Google has a fair representation of the
book. I know that all but one page are present, but within the first
several chapters, the page breaks in the scanned version .rtf are not
in the same place as they are in Google's copy. I certainly don't want
to have to go through the entire book changing pagination based on
Google. I do have a hold at my local library for the print copy that
will help answer this question. Any other advice would be greatly appreciated.
If the page breaks are in your text, go with them, so long as the
numbering sequence is right.
The third question is that in the scanned version that I have from
BookShare there are frequent instances of two spaces, rather than one.
The sense of the book is that there should be a comma where the first
space is. However, when looking at the Google version, this separator
is an m dash surrounded by spaces. All of these dashes have been
removed. Again, my question is whether this is a function of the scan
volunteer the scanner hardware or the OCR software.
John, the M-dash needed to be removed from the text because it doesn't
transfer well into the Braille files for Bookshare. What should have
happened is that the scanner replace the M-dash with two hyphens, like
this --. I'd do a global find and replace and replace the two spaces
with two hyphens. You will probably find a couple of occasions where
you've replaced these chars wrongly, but fixing five mal-replacements
is better than trying to manually replace all these instances.
Hope I've been helpful? If I knew more about your apostrophe problem,
I could probably help better. I'd need to see the whole sentence to
get the context in which the apostrophe was used.
Ann P.
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