[bksvol-discuss] Re: Finding bad pages
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:22:54 -0500
hehehe I chose that because I didn't think even Inuit words had three Q's
in a row, but I didn't know of anything that had two either. :-) Being all
in caps provides extra assurence.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
curious entity at earthlink dot net
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From: "Guido Corona" <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 10:35 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Finding bad pages
> Triple q is fine. Just do not use double q. There exists one single word
> in Italian containing a double q. It is 'soqquadro', which literally
> means
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> 'a disorderly mess of objects or furnishings in a room'
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> Very topical in the case of bad pages.
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> "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I tend to put rescan in parens on the top of the pages that I find really
> bad in books I scan. It is extremely unlikely that that word would ever
> appear in a book. <g> I used to use stars in front of words that were
> badly
> garbled so I could get a sighted assistant to tell me what the mess was
> supposed to be. Of course that only worked if the book didn't have stars
> for footnotes. Now I think I might switch to a carot, because I have
> never
> found one of those in a scan unless it was just part of the garbage. It
> is
> great to find everything that needs fixing just by going through the
> document with f3, and editing doesn't have to distract you from your
> enjoyment of reading while you can't do anything about the mess.
> I also use QQQ for my reading place marker, but of course that isn't
> necessary in kes files, since they retain your place. I am pretty sure i
> have never submitted anything with my editing markup in it, but if anyone
> ever finds such stuff they will know what happened. :-)
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> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> curious entity at earthlink dot net
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> From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 10:45 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Finding bad pages
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> > Or using the Qwerty the same thing. Finding Tab characters would be
> > helpful. By the By this page didn't have them! I couldn't find the one
> > page. sigh, so I put a note in the comments field about it, and
> hopefully
> > the intrepid volunteer has better luck.
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> > I like Mary's idea of putting &&&& or **** in front of pages that cause
> > problems. I am going to do that from now on, as well, sigh, I have way
> too
> > many things to remember right now.
> >
> > Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
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