Hi Judy,
I’d be interested in that wild card if you find it.
I have some Word macros of my own. If somebody wants them and can tell me how
to share them I could do that.
One converts footnote numbers which I number with asterisks to account for them
and check them for accuracy to superscripts without the asterisk as required by
the manual. Some of the Oxford University books have up to 1600 footnotes so
this macro, even though I have to press it once for each footnote, still
reduces the number of operations tremendously.
Another macro takes a scanned index which usually runs on without proper
linebreaks to have mostly proper linebreaks. You still have to read the index
but it’s mostly fixed in that one regard.
A third macro takes a title which I’ve preceded with a number sign and changes
its attributes to bold and 16 point. I don’t have one for subentries at 14 and
bold so have to do those manually. I should make one for that but I’m too
computer phobic to do it.
While one can do these things manually as you go through the book I prefer to
have this process which I do at the end. It’s more accurate than if I expect my
brain to jump from one thing to another as I’m working on the book.
Does anyone else have macros you’d like to tell us about?
I bet there are some internally within Bookshare to make the work easier.
I’ve thought of making one to do some other automated operations but global
replacements are risky.
I use qz to mark my place in a book. I was quite surprised recently when I
encountered a web site with the URL qz.com.
I use qq to mark things I want a sighted volunteer to check with me. That
letter combinations I found is used in some Arab languages.
Well, life and proofing are both interesting!
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Judy
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2022 3:23 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Italic page numbers
Hi Terry,
I'm pretty sure, but not 100 percent positive, that the Bookshare converter
changes italicized page numbers to ordinary. However, I think it's best to ask
Amanda this one.
If it doesn't, I have a Word wildcard search around somewhere in my archive of
Bookshare proofreading notes that I can look for that makes it easier to do
this.
Judy
