I'm currently working on a book that has over 100 pages of appendices that are all 2 columns of addresses. This would have been a big chore for the proofer, so I wanted to get them as clean as possible. Here is what I did, which has worked as far as I can tell so far. It also appears to have worked for the index, based on spot checking. I'm using K1000 V11.
1. I scanned the book just using some pretty basic settings.2. I started a new file for the appendices and index, and changed the following settings. A. under the conversion setting for opening text documents, I selected to preserve line endings. B. Under the reading settings, I selected not to have tables identified, and to respect line endings.
C. Under recognition settings, I enabled column identification.3. After scanning the appendix and index, while still in K1000, I did a find and replace to eliminate all spaces at the beginning of lines. You accomplish this by putting \n (that is backslash n space) and replacing with \n (that's backslash n). replace all, and repeat until there are 0 replacements. You may wonder why I did this final step. Well, that is because after saving the .rtf, and opening it in MS Word, which is what I do my proofing in, some of the line endings weren't preserved as they were in K1000. After examining the lines that weren't represented correctly, character by character, I realized that the lines that didn't display correctly had leading spaces. After removing the leading spaces, the line endings truly were respected.
I hope this may be of help to someone in the future. -- Melissa Smith To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
