Hello Judy:
Wow, that's cool, and also a bit odd that this is appearing in this
particular book, because it was published in 2015.
Thank you, I'll take you up on that offer.
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Hi Aidee,
Yay! At least we're on the right track since these are definitely vertical
tabs. Vertical tabs, by the way, are an ancient print command that
originated back in the days when programmers had to tell a printer the size
of a washing machine how to move different mechanical components around to
print out a page. Programs like Word display them on a screen the same way
that they display line breaks, but they actually do something a little
different than a line break. I'm dating myself, but I haven't seen a
vertical tab used since the late 1970s!
If you'd like, send me a few pages of the altered document attached to an
email as a rtf, and also send me a few pages of the original document as a
rtf the same way. I'll look at the codes and tell you if replacing the
vertical tabs biffed the formatting for the document. My email address is:
cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Judy s.
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On 6/29/2016 5:31 PM, Aidee Campa wrote:
Hello Judy:
It seems that they were, in fact, vertical tabs, because when I did a find
and replace for ^11, Word tells me it replaced over seven thousand of them
with a space. I did this in a different file than the one I started
proofreading, and the original is still in tact. When I asked JAWS to look
for ^13, it just showed me blank lines, so I'm pretty sure they were/are
vertical tabs. The manual doesn't say if the conversion process does
anything to vertical tabs, although it does say it removes extra blank lines
and spaces.
Since I can't see the screen, I don't know what a vertical tab does,
although the person who scanned the book tells me that the example I showed
him of a vertical tab in the text is a line break in the book.
All that to say, I can remove the vertical tabs, but I'm worried of messing
with the original formatting of the book and I'm unsure of whether or not
said formatting would be preserved after the conversion process.
Thank you for pointing me towards the ^11.
Any advice on whether I should remove them in the file I check in to
BookShare? (hope that made sense)
Thank you so much for all your time and help.
