[bksvol-discuss] Re: question please and thank you.
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:34:19 -0700
Hi Gwen and Lori,
First, Gwen, to answer your question which was the note that Lori
replied to. There are instructions for how to use Kurzweil for scanning and
proofreading in the scanning and proofreading manual which can be accessed
from the volunteer page on the bookshare web site. Those might be worth
looking at, but don't let the amount of information in the documents daunt
you. Slow and steady wins the race, and one task at a time is often the
best way to go about learning. I'll write to you more off list, Gwen.
Lori, as to your question about whether Word or Kurzweil 1000 is better,
it's really a matter of preference, mostly. I don't like Word as well. It
feels sluggish to me. The dialogues don't feel as intuitive, but it does
work, and predictably, even if some of its controls seem stupid to me. For
instance, control+page down will take you to the next page break, which is
great, until you've engaged the "find" or "find and replace" dialogue, and
then that keystroke finds the next occurrence of the last thing you searched
for. That bugs me.
Kurzweil does have ranked spelling as an option, which is sometimes
preferable to the standard spell checker. But Word has the ability to
search for section breaks and em dashes where Kurzweil doesn't without some
tweeking for the em dashes and not at all for section breaks.
It's really a matter of preference. That's all.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lori
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 8:08 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question please and thank you.
Are there advantages or disadvantages to either? Just curious...
Lori
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From: gwen tweedy <mailto:gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:20 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question please and thank you.
Oh good then thank you
then I would like to know all I can about how you set things up in Kurzweil
thank you.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mayrie <mailto:mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> ReNae
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 8:30 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question please and thank you.
Hi Gwen,
Yes, you can proofread using Kurzweil. I, in fact, do very little
proofreading with Microsoft Word, though I can use that software for
proofreading as well. I just prefer using Kurzweil.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of gwen tweedy
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 5:49 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] question please and thank you.
Can a person proof read in Kurzweil?
I know most here, use other things that is why I was wondering.
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