Speaking of dashes, I have a bit of a problem with them myself. I am scanning books with Open Book 6. Every time there is a dash it fails to recognize it and the two words it replaces are run together as if they are one word. I correct the problem by preproofing every two pages before scanning the next two pages and I run a spell check and seperate the words and place a double hyphen between them one at a time. This is, of course, a bit time consuming and tedious, so it sure would be nice if I could prevent Open Book from doing that in the first place. Does anyone know if it is possible to prevent it?
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To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 8:58 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: replacing long dashes in books
HI Monica, It's absolutely all right to replace long dashes with two hyphens! If youdon't do that, Bookshare's conversion tools do it anyway. But I completelyunderstand how much more effective listening is with this replacement. You can do a find and replace to replace them though using Kurzweil 1000 version 12. I do this all the time. Find a long dash in your book. Sit your cursor on it, then press shift right arrow to select that character. Now press control plus c to copy that character to the clipboard. Go to the top of your document by pressing control plus home. Open the find and replace dialogue by pressing control plus h In the "find" box paste that long dash by pressing control plus vIn the replace box type two hyphens or dashes, the thing to the right of the0 on the number row. Tab to "replace all" and press enter.This process should replace all of the long dashes in the document with two hyphens. If you don't start at the top of the document, not all of the longdashes will be replaced, in case the one you found to use as a "find" character wasn't the first in the book. Hope that helps. And I have no idea why synthesized speech seems to pause properly with two hyphens instead of the long dash or em dash. Go figure, but it's true. It does read better that way. Happy scanning and proofreading! Mayrie _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica Svopa Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 4:28 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] replacing long dashes in booksHello to everyone. I am reading a 300 page book for school which I scannedmyself. I am using Jaws 12 and Kurzweil 12. I like listening to my bookwith Kurzweil to catch anything odd Jaws says. I'm finding that when thereare 2 words connected with a long dash, Jaws cannot speak them separately. So, what I have been doing is manually replacing where it says long dashwith two dashes using the key next to the 0. Jaws reads better this way, atleast is sounds easier to understand for me. My question is, is this okay to do? If so, are there steps to do it in a faster way. I tried using find and replace but was unsuccessful. thanks for any assistance or suggestions. Blessings, Monica Svopa
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