Hi Lissi, Well lets take this from the top and hope I cover it all for you.
First Globally in this case, means to use the "control-h" and after choosing
the find string and the replace string you hit alt-a. Forinstance in the
case of a doc file we might want to replace all of the section-breaks with
hard-page-breaks. So Word uses the lower case "b" preceeded by the carrot,
to identify the section-break, and the carrot with a lower case m to
identify the hard-page-break. Hitting the control-h and inserting the
carrot b into the find part of the routine, hitting the tab and inserting
the carrot m, into the "replace-with", then hitting the alt a, which Word
uses to tell the routine to do it to the entire document, or replace all,
which can be directional, "down" meaning from the starting point to the end
of the document, or "up" which goes the other direction. The find routine
will always ask if you want the other end of the file searched after a
directional search, this can be very useful. I should also point out that
if you continue tabbing after inserting your replace string, you will find
the additional choices to modify the search and replace routine. If you
select "more" in the routine your choices can be very helpful to removing
headers and such. It is under the "more" selection that you will find the
direction choice and the case sensitivity choice. As to the carrot lower
case w, you are searching for all white space characters, which includes tab
characters and spaces and such. Replacing with a "space character", holds
things apart for lack of a better way of saying it, otherwise everything
gets run together, and what a mess that would be! while tightenning up the
file and allowing you to then search for things like the out of place
apostriphes. Another very usefulreplacement, which I do on every fileis to
"fine", carrot-p, carrot-p, that's two of them and replace with a carrot-p.
You do this repeatedly until the routines, responce is zero or one
replacement, made . The carrot p is the end of parragraph symbol.
You shouldn't have to cut and paste to fix this crazy format, although I
know some will disagree with me, If you can't see it, and I don't think it's
going to screw up a brf file type, why not.Saving and giving your file a
different name preserves your original file. To do this, with the file open,
not all high-lighted, probbably wouldn't hert anything, but un-necessary and
could cause some accidents which are to horrible to contemplate,choose the
"Save-as" and control -arrow through the file to some point where you might
insert a character such as a number one or two, be sure to do this in front
of the period, not behind it, as you don't want to change the file type.
So forinstance our file name is great book.doc, I might change it to great
book1.doc, or anything that has meaning for you.Just don't change the file
type, which in this case is a .doc file. And if you do just change it back.
----- OriginAfter changing the file name hit the enter key. Lissi if it
doesn't work this way for you you can call me or send me your phone number
if you like as I have free long distance and I'll call you just give me a
good time to reach you. I'm in california, any time after 9 a m is ok here.
Off-line e-mail at tjhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx HTH and good luck, Tom
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From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:49 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: unique format, any suggestions?
Dear Tom,
Thank you for taking the time to address my question. I'm afraid I don't understand the concept or method of replacing globally. I don't understand what replacing a w with an empty space would do.
As for saving as, I'm not sure if I do that with the name of the file in my validation in progress folder, do it at the top of the file when it's opened or highlight the contents of the file and then trying the save as. I also unsuccessfully tried cutting and pasting.
I did experiment with copying my files, but failed. I always got the message to choose whether I wanted to substitute the new file for the old one. I'll try again, attempting to change the name of the new copy...but I'm not on solid ground.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message ----- From: "tom hawkins" <tjhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 12:59 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: unique format, any suggestions?
Hi Lissi, Have you tried replacing globally a carrot w with a single space? Then "saving as" giving the file a new name, that way you preserve the original file, just in case you don't like the result. Tom
----- Original Message ----- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 5:39 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] unique format, any suggestions?
Dear Readers,
I'm validating a memoir with a format I'm not sure how to adapt in an RTF file Using Microsoft Word.
Paragraphs are deeply indented, but that's not anything difficult to deal with. What's unique is the dialogue. It is always preceeded by a double dash and indented way far in. This makes the first line of dialogue short and the second line is more indented than the paragraphs.
It's as if the dialogue is short little paragraphs within paragraphs. Most of the time the dialogue is short bursts of only a few words on a single line.
If I understand correctly Bookshare tools ignore tabs. Does this mean I should indent using the space bar? Will these indents disappear on portable braille reading devices? I'm asking so I can avoid too much empty space or confusing the reader. The Dashes before each quote are a good indicator, so maybe the deep indent isn't needed and I could indent dialogue like any paragraph and the double dashes will alert the reader. Oh, and to add to the mix, there are no quotation marks or apostrophes bracketing the quotes.
I read the author has theater background and the almost centered bursts of spoken words remind me a little of some script formats.
To follow the book's print format exactly I'd need to indent 4 spaces for paragraphs, 6 spaces for the second and subsequent lines of dialogue and 8 for the first lines of dialogue.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance. While I wait for your ideas, I have a second book to upload in as many days. The last one was only 139 pages long and an easy one. I'm making headway on my validation queue.
Always with love,
Lissi.
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