[bksvol-discuss] Eureka! (was Any easy way in Word to convert book submitted as two-column rtf?)
- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:22:16 -0600
Ding! Lightbulb time! Thank you Jamie and Misha!
I have a licensed copy of wordperfect that runs on my windows
system, even though I don't use it so I fired it up. I had
deleted the original of this book, as I submitted the proofread
copy, but I hadn't emptied out my my protected recycle bin so it
was still usable. I pulled it up in WordPerfect and took a look
at the codes. Thank you, Jamie and Misha, for that thought! smile.
Wordperfect found tons of different kinds of column codes and
page break codes that are unusual, and just about every page has
yet another different one! No wonder it was a nightmare in a Word.
Have I mentioned lately how much I hate Word? grin.
Here's some examples:
1. It has an hcol code (spelled h-c-o-l) which is a "hard column
break." And the hcol codes are different on each different page,
so searching for one doesn't find another
2. It has an THcol code (spelled t-h-c-o-l) which is a "temporary
hard column break." Just like the previous code, the thcol codes
are different on each page, so searching for one doesn't find
another.
4. It has Hcol-Spg codes (spelled h-c-o-l-s-p-g) which I think
are some of the weird section break codes that Word cannot find
when I do a search for section breaks.
5. It has THrt-Scol codes (spelled t-h-r-t-s-c-o-l which are
another type of column section break code that Word isn't finding
when I search for column and section breaks.
and that's just some of it - there is lots of other stuff on top
of the regular Wordperfect codes that I'm used to (I've used
WordPerfect since the early DOS version, and still think it's
heads and shoulders better than Word will ever be).
Next time I have something weird like this, I'm going to throw it
into Wordperfect so I look at the actual codes. If it's as
bizarre as this one, I'll reject it rather than fixing it because
took a lot of time. It would have been faster to have someone
scan the book again. The only saving grace was that I ended up
loving the story, and never would have read it if I hadn't taken
the book on as a challenge. The title, by the way, is "An
Abundance of Katherines." It's a very unusual young adult book,
and highly recommended!
Judy s.
Mike wrote:
That's one of the things I hate about Microsoft Word. Back in the days
of Word Perfect, it had a reveal codes function that would let you see
and modify ALL formatting codes (hm, I wonder if I can go back to Word
Perfect). *sigh*
Misha
Judy s. wrote:
Finally got a chance to check this out, and the column breaks in that
book were not a ^n . So I now have two weird codes that were in it,
the section breaks that weren't found by the section break codes, and
the column breaks, which weren't standard word column breaks. I did
get all the formatting fixed another way, but I'd sure love to know
what all those codes really were.
Judy s.
Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
What I think Judy has, and what I do, is scan two pages in one page
mode. I started doing this because if I scan in two page mode and a
page is very short, like the last page of a chapter, Omnipage tends
to want to just skip that page for some reason. So I started scanning
two pages in one page mode, and then Omnipage puts this nifty little
column break in instead of a page break. This sounds to me like what
Judy is encountering. If it is, then it should be easily replaced by
replacing all ^n (a word column break) with the ^p^m^p (space page
break space).
If not then she's got a different kind of animal.
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