[bksvol-discuss] Re: removing hyphens at the end of a line
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:40:02 -0700 (PDT)
Yes, that makes sense. But when I validate a book, I
usually have the print book, so I make it match. More
modern books make compound words where older books
hyphenated. I suppose it wold be easier on our reading
members if I used common compound words instead of the
hyphenated words, but we're supposed to be as true to
the book as possible, and I figure the individual
reader can eliminate what they don't want. :-)I find
it rather interesting to see the changes that have
occurred in our written language over the decades,
stylistically as well as word use. One of the books
I'm working on makes compound words out of normally
separate words to an extent I've never seen before.
Cindy
P.S. Thanks for letting me know that's an optional
hyphen. I have that choice in my replace and will be
able to eliminate it and save myself some time.
--- Jamie Yates <jamieyates@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Grandma Cindy, that hyphen with the little line on
> it, is that "optional" hyphen is what I call it.
> It's the one that was in the Best-Kept Secret book
> that I scanned and was causing the funny problem
> for the validator.
>
> For me it happens in the OCR process, where in the
> print book there really is a hyphen, but when it is
> scanned and OCR'd, the OCR program says I know there
> is a hyphen in print, but when I OCR it, there
> doesn't HAVE to be a hyphen unless you're trying to
> match print. Once in a while it places this optional
> hyphen where there really should be one, like if
> there was the word phrase soon-to-be but "be" was
> bumped to the next line, rather than the word
> bumblebee where it would be bumble-bee with "bee"
> bumped to the next line. So sometimes you can put
> nothing in for the optional hyphen and sometimes you
> need to put in a real hyphen.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
>
> Jamie in Michigan
> Currently Reading - Guarding the Secrets:
> Palestinian Terrorism and a Father�s Murder of His
> Too-American Daughter - Ellen Harris
>
>
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