[bookport] Re: Issues with continuous reading within certain texts
- From: Richard Turner <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:36:43 -0800
For the last two betas I have noticed the same behavior whether in the
notes or in reading standard book files. If reading continuously, the book
port scrambles words which makes me think that the scan was bad, but when
reading just the word or just the sentence, it is fine.
Richard
At 11:21 PM 2/11/2005, you wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>Has anyone else had this with the latest fermware and transfer tool betas?
>I was reading a James Follett book last night and noticed that for some
>reason, under certain cercumstances, the BP misses off words. It seems to
>only happen when continually reading, sentense navigation reveels the text
>to be in tact. Could one of you guys at APH take a look. I've copied a
>small section that should illustrate it. Try to reproduce it for me if
>you can, just copy the passage to the clipboard, paste directly into a
>text file and send that short passage to a BP. Am interested in how it
>works out. For instance, do your units cut off the "you promised" and make
>it sound as if it is a typo? To finnish, the file he sent me was in RTF
>format and was transfered using office XP. Some of his other files seem to
>exhibit this behaviour also using the new betas.
>
>Passage follows:
>
>
> Telson avoided her gaze. `There's a planetary system three
> light-years from Alturn,' he began.
>
> `Telson! You promised!'
>
> `I said that I would consider it, Sharna.'
>
> `Three light-years. That's four years in suspended animation to get
> there that'll take us another three light-years further from Earth.'
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