[bksvol-discuss] Re: Good-looking quotation marks
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:22:37 -0700
Hi Kim,
When you see that quotation marks are not what you want them to be, select
the closing quote by placing your cursor immedietly to the left of it, and
press shift plus right arrow to select that character. Copy that character
to your clipboard by pressing control plus c.
Move to the top of your document by pressing control plus home (this makes
sure that you will replace all unwanted marks from the document by starting
at the beginning and going all the way to the end).
Open the find and replace dialogue by pressing control plus h
In the find box, paste the mark you want to replace by pressing control plus
v
In the replace box type a quotation mark as you normally would
Tab to replace all and press enter.
Word will tell you how many replacements it's made.
Do the same with the opening quotation mark because if the end one is not
what you want, even if the opening quote looks like what you want, it's
probably just appearing so in braille.
Hope that helps.
Mayrie
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kim Friedman
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:59 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Good-looking quotation marks
Hi, can anyone tell me how to make sure that regular quotations are correct?
Here's what I want. I wish opening quote marks to look like they're supposed
to look at the beginning of a conversation and closing quotes to appear at
the end. Sometimes when I'd be proofreading, I'd see on my Braille display a
mark at the end of a conversation that looks exactly like the opening
quotation mark in Braille. Is there any way I can correct this? Keep in mind
that before I start reading I've gotten rid of all smart quotes. Thanks for
the help. Regards, Kim Friedman.
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Melissa Smith
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:14 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Issue
I've not come across your situation, so I don't know if this will work or
not. I'd probably try this on a test file first. There is a character
for whitespace, which is ^w which might get rid of the blank lines after
the page breaks.
Melissa Smith
On 4/18/2011 1:25 PM, Alyssa wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> Well, I have determined that some of the hard page breaks have two
> paragraph markers after them. Those I deleted in word by byping ^k^p^p
> into the find and replace box. Others have the page break followed by
> a blank line and then 2 paragraph markers. Unfortunately, I have no
> clue what the character is for deleting the blank lines.
>
> Still others are actually soft page breaks. LOL. I discovered this the
> more I got into the book last night. I changed the paper size but to
> no avail.
>
> Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks for your help!
>
>
> -Alyssa
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran
> Bailey
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:09 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Issue
>
> I had a case in which I had proofread a book in Open Book and when I
> converted it to RTF extra page breaks were inserted. I did not have
> Word and
>
> I was about to give up on it because I thought that I would have to
> proof it
>
> again line by line removing each extraneous page break. I finally hit
> on a solution. I was able to remove them in Wordpad. First, the most
> recent versions of JAWS will not read page breaks in Wordpad. I had to
> go back to an earlier version of JAWS that would. I think it was
> version 9. Then, noting that the extraneous page breaks were each
> right up against a character while the page breaks I wanted to keep
> had a blank line before and
>
> after them, I did a find and replace for each letter of the alphabet
> and every punctuation mark I could think of. I used the find function
> to find the character with a page break right affter it with no space.
> I replaced it
>
> with just the character and all the unwanted page breaks vanished. It
> took twenty-six operations for each letter of the alphabet and then
> more for the punctuation marks, but it was a lot easier than proofing
> the whole thing again.
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alyssa"<lyssassong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:<bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:44 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Issue
>
>
>> Okay, so JAWS was being flaky. Apparently these are hard page breaks
>> after all! Not sure why it wasn't seeing them in that manner at
>> first, unless it had to do with blank lines I was able to get rid of.
>> Anyway, is there a method for removing blank pages in Kurzweil or MS
>> Word? I'm about to look for myself but wanted to ask here in case I
>> do not find anything. I realize that Bookshare wants them to be
>> there, but I believe it would be easier to insert them where
>> appropriate rather than arrowing through a file line by line in
>> search of the ones that do not belong.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -Alyssa
>>
>>
>>
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alyssa
>> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 11:29 PM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Page Issue
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I cannot tell what is going on with a book I am proofing at the
>> moment. The book appears to have double the amount of pages it
>> should. When I checked, it seems that before each hard page break,
>> there is something else which appears to be another type of break. I
>> am guessing that this may be a soft page break but do not know for
>> certain. If anyone else has seen this and knows more about what I am
>> referring to, please help me get rid of these in one swoop.
>> Otherwise, this is going to be a very tedious process.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -Alyssa
>>
>>
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