[bksvol-discuss] Re: Help with Software, Please!

  • From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 16:55:43 -0500

Thanks, Mayrie! I knew you could help her with the ASCII replacement.

The odd thing is it isn't all paragraphing missing, but every page has some 
problem and some pages have no paragraphs. In this particular case, I have 
little reason to believe it is the book since it is a clear, high quality print.

When paragraphing is present, there is a blank line between paragraphs, 
something I think routine in Open Book and easily stripped.

Valerie


On Aug 6, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Mayrie ReNae wrote:

> Hi Valerie and Sandi,
>  
> Thanks, Valerie, for clarifying exactly what you're seeing.  All right quotes 
> is very weird, but is consistent with what I used to see when proofreading 
> scans done with OpenBook.  I have no idea why OpenBook does that particular 
> odd thing.
>  
> Here is the find and replace sequence for replacing smart quotes with regular 
> quotes, Sandi.  I should have included it in my last note.  Just in case 
> turning off the autoformatting doesn't fix the problem completely.
>  
> I'm including instructions for removing both opening and closing quotes just 
> for the sake of thoroughness.  I suggest running both steps, just in case it 
> helps, and because it only takes about five extra seconds to do the extra 
> step.
>  
> I hope it helps and that you can figure out why all of your paragraph marks 
> disappeared.  I've never seen that before except with Kurzweil 3000.  Good 
> luck, and happy scanning and proofreading!
>  
> See below for the instructions for find and replace in Word to replace smart 
> quotes with regular quotes.
>  
> Mayrie
>  
> Convert smart quotes to standard quotes
> To Remove Smart Quotes Using Find And Replace:
> In the find box type: ^0147
> In the replace box type: ^0034
> Replace all.
> In the find box type: ^0148
> In the replace box type: ^0034
> Replace all.
> 
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> 
> And just for everyone's information, aside from many (not all) pages missing 
> many or all paragraph breaks and the only right quotes appearing so grammar 
> check told her to eliminate the preceding space, Sadi did an amazing job for 
> first projects, including being a real sweetheart and moving pagination to 
> the top to help me navigate easier.
> 
> So glad to have another enthusiastic scanner, so hope someone can help her 
> determine if there is a setting to better retain paragraphing in particular.  
> also, if someone (Mayrie?) can give Sandi the ASCII code for right curly to 
> be substituted with straight quotes in a global find and replace before she 
> edits, that would be helpful.  Odd that they all appeared to be right quotes…
> 
> Thanks, folks!
> 
> Valerie
> 
> 
> On Aug 6, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Sandi Ryan wrote:
> 
>> Hi Group,
>>  
>> I have received excellent feedback from my first two scanned books, and they 
>> contained a problem I'd rather not perpetuate.
>>  
>> Somewhere in the process, my document was stripped of paragraph breaks.  I 
>> promise I did not do this with keystrokes or menus.  Also, the quotation 
>> marks are curly rather than straight.
>>  
>> I use Word 2007 and OpenBook 8 at this point for scanning and correction.  I 
>> scanned in RTF, and the text came out really well.
>>  
>> What is happening to cause this problem?
>>  
>> If you can help, please either reply to this message or e-mail me off-list 
>> atsjryan2@xxxxxxxxxx
>>  
>> Thanks much.
>>  
>> Sandi
>>  
>

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