[bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:24:36 -0800 (PST)
Guido,
You must have wonderful scanner!!!! There's no way I
can scan a book that quickly, since I have to scan a
page at a time, and can convert 8 - 12 pages at a
time.
Anyway, since so many other people are happier
scanning, I'm leaving that to them -- but unless
everybody submits in rtf format, that still leaves the
problem of hard page breaks in txt books, which
apparently some of you and put in and others of us
cannot. My solution, as things stand now, is to
download a txt file, reject it, and re-submit it as an
rtf file -- which means someone else will then have to
validate it.
But you bring up something I've been wondering about:
Should a book that is spell-checked only, and garbage
removed, be approved as being in excellent condition,
or good? What about scanning errors that pass the
spell-check, like "be" for "he," the number one for
capital I, lie for the, etc. And words that are
missing completely from sentences. I know the
excellent rating allows for some errors, but how many
before it becomes Good instead of Excellent? I
recently worked in a book that had a lot of missing
words. I would suspect that the omissions wouldn't
have made much difference to the reader, and I suppose
that in the cases of the other examples I gave any
reader could make changes as he/she read, but I wonder
if it wouldn't be better for books that haven't been
read and corrected by the validator to have a Good
rating and leave the Excellent for books that have
been done more carefully.
Cindy
--- Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I know this will sound so dreadfully heartless, no
> Charitable Seasonal
> spirit and all the rest. But It takes a grand total
> of just 1 hour and 5
> minutes to scan an entire 450 page paperback book,
> page breaks, font
> info, and all the rest. Than it takes about 90
> minutes to do some basic
> cleanup, and finally an average of a couple of hours
> to spellcheck it.
>
> I really do not understand why we are even bothering
> to discuss salvage
> operations for DOA submissions, when the culling ax
> and a quick rescan is
> the only merciful course of action for most of these
> runts.
>
> Guido Dante Corona
> IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> Research Division,
> Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
> Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
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> Hi Cindy,
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> We're still working on it. (Gotta love consensus,
> huh?) Look for a
> message from me by the end of the week.
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> Did everyone have a good Christmas?
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> Marissa
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Behalf Of Cindy
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 9:21 PM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] txt page breaks redux
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> Hi, Marissa,
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> Thanks for the new list.
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> Is there any word yet on what to do with txt files
> or
> if they will be accepted without hard breaks, with
> spaces and page numbers instead? That doesn't
> prevent
> the breaks Word puts in in the wrong places, but by
> adding line spaces or changing font the file can
> probably be made to coincide with the book.
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> When I finish Johnny Tremain I'm thinking of fixing
> one of those troublesome romances, since I found a
> copy. As things stand now, I think the best thing
> for
> me to do is to reject the txt file and submit a new
> rtf file with page breaks.
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> Cindy
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