[bksvol-discuss] Re: Pesky hyphens
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:25:03 -0800 (PST)
I'm in the midst of validating a long but interesting
book right now with the same problem. I'm closing up
the words as I go, but if I weren't reading the book I
would miss half of them. A final spell-check with
Word, maybe with K1000, too, will find some of them if
half of the word isn't a word by itself;
unfortunately, in your examples both halves are words
and would not be caught in a spell-check, but but
inter esting would probably be caught because of the
esting.
I just checked the hyphens in a book file I'm working
on. One at the end of the line does not have a space
after it, so my guess is that perhaps whoever globally
replaced the hyphen absent-mindedly replaced it with a
space instead of replacing it with nothing. Or it may
be that if there is a space after the hyphen one would
have to select not just the hyphen but hyphen and
space at the end of lines to get the word properly
closed. I read a book as I validate and so close the
hyphenated words as I go along.
G.Cindy
--- Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am currently reading "No Birds Sing" by Jo
> Bannister from the collection.
> Can you imagine that validators actually read books
> for pleasure after
> slaving over a hot text editor for hours at a time?
> I'm sure you can.
>
> However, one cannot help but bring the skills
> acquired as a validator to the
> books one reads for pleasure. Henceforth, my
> tongue-in-cheek mantra shall be
> "The unexamined book is not worth reading", with
> appropriate apologies to
> Mr. Socrates.
>
> Firstly, this particular book is a really good
> scan/validation, and my
> comments are not meant as criticism to those who
> worked on it. Instead, I
> want to offer thanks to this unknown team and to
> Bookshare for making it
> available.
>
> However, (you knew that was going to happen, didn't
> you?) throughout the
> book I observed a number of occurrences of words
> split without hyphens,
> where hyphens used to be.
>
> read
> able
> and
>
> pass
> able, for examples.
>
> I suspect what happened was that a tool was applied
> which took the hyphens
> off of the end of lines. Unfortunately, this tool
> did not join the
> hyphenated word's parts as it should have. It merely
> got rid of the hyphen.
>
> I don't really have a solution to this problem. I
> use Kurzweil, and it's
> apply corrections tool takes care of this handily.
>
> Does anyone have a solution using Microsoft word? If
> so, this solution could
> be applied while we are changing section breaks to
> page breaks. I looked on
> the tips section of Jake's site and there was a tip
> for fixing the problem
> in Kurzweil, but not Ms Word.
>
> I tried a small experiment in word splitting a word
> "happi-
> ly"
> And did a find on "-^l" for a hyphen followed by a
> new line character.
> Unfortunately, word did not find my little
> experiment. I'm not sure what's
> going on there.
>
> Does anyone know how hyphens at the end of the line
> might be found and
> fixed?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
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> is
> the only thing that ever has."--Margaret Mead
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