[bksvol-discuss] S O S from Amy
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 02:43:50 -0400
Dear Volunteer Friends,
Amy wrote to me off list asking if I would forward her request for help. It
follows my signature. I won't even attempt to advise her because I'm mostly
computer illiterate. Your conversations about Open Book and Kurzweil sound so
ominous. The glitches you experience would discourage me. If I ever hope to
scan, I'll have to tackle learning them someday,but meanwhile validating keeps
me more than busy. As long as it works, I'll hang on to Microsoft Word, for
dear life. The only new skill I'm motivated to learn is editing an RTF file in
braille on the Braille Note for special projects where my ears, searches and
spell checks aren't enough.
Amy has struggled trying to prepare the mega project, Genji. I hope someone
here can help her decide how to continue or help her find a Bookshare project
that will be a doable match for the programs she has.
Thanks in advance on Amy's behalf.
Always with love,
Lissi
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Help. I am temporarily out of the
bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
because I had hoped to work on Genji and finish it before I ran out of openbook
and I had been doing well until today when I saw that most of the corrections
from the last two days, even ones that had been there when I last worked on the
file yesterday, were not there. I was not surprised when I saw that the
paragraph indentations were gone, even in the Oprenbook file as I had it before
but other corrections as well. 2pages which had been missing and which
I replaced were gone again. In my quest for an answer I found in the
"properties" description that my "rtf" file had become a "read only" file and
although
I had been and still am working on it in Openbook it was listed as a "WordPad"
file. I had had a copy in WordPad but it was not the one I was working
on in Openbook. Now all of them are listed in Openbook but as read only which
does me no good.
To make a long story short, As far as I can tell the corrections from before
September are still there although I am half afraid to look but the ones
from The 1st and 2nd are not. How can I fix this? Most of the pages of the
Story itself are good if not perfect - most are exact but I have only validated
the first 50 or so pp of the tale itself . The intro, which is vital to the
understanding of the tale, did have a lot of corrections and I will double
check them. If this is going to continue I either need to know how to covert
this back to a file that is not "read only" but still in openbook or some
other program (WordPerfect or WordPad and I need to learn them better) or have
someone else validate the book as you once suggested. I still want to read
it so it would make sense for me to validate it but . . . .
I do not know who is whom in the hierchary of Bookshare but somebody among
those of you who decide what is acceptable or not and those who know these
programs
better than I do is better able to tell me what to do and decide what I should
be doing as a bookshare volunteer with my poor skills. Could you please
pass this along to whomever it was you wrote to (I cannot find the note)
suggesting just this point and find out from him/her what you all figure out.
Meanwhile I wll try to find someway, when I leave/close out the program
tonight to save the corrections but I have not yet figured it out.
I am available at 305-326-1354 or at my home address :
agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
There is one advantage to my working on Genji in that I do know it well enough
now to fix a few of the regular errors ( like tj for g or ,- for ; without
having to check them all the time with the book. Should it be decided that
someone else could better validate it I can send the loose pages that comprise
the original source of the scanning to the person in question. If that someone
has K1000 the original scan which has the page #s that match the book
(blanks and "preliminary pages" included) will be on that scan as I did keep a
copy of the original .kes file.
Looking forward to hearing from you or whomever.
Sincerly,
Amy
omst
"My story is finally out there in the ether, a self-sufficient organism beyond
my control, changing shape in every new mind that absorbs it."
From The Night Listener, a novel by
Armistead Maupin
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 1:12 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: blank pages
You are getting extra pages, while I almost lost all of mine this morning. I
saved an rtf copy of the kes file I just finished rank spelling on. I closed
the rtf file, and was apparently back in the kes version, but I found that when
I wanted to check something in the book, it said that the maximum page number
was five. It didn't lie, because I couldn't go past page five. The original
book has 556 pages. I decided to close the file and see what Windows
Properties would say, and when it asked me if I wanted to save the changes to
the file, I said no. When I opened the file in K1000 again, the file was back
to its original size. If I had just saved the file without thinking, I would
have lost nearly all the kes version of the book.
I wonder if anyone has ever had that happen. A little scary.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kellie Hartmann
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 9:18 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: blank pages
Hi Jill,
This is a known Kurzweil bug, though I think they've fixed it so it doesn't
happen too often anymore. What I would do is go to the top of the bunch of
blank pages and press control-m. This makes a marker for Kurzweil which will
allow you to select all these blank pages at once and get rid of them. After
you make the marker with control-m, find the place where the text starts up
again. When you get there, just press control-x at the top of the page where
the text starts back up. This will cut out all those unwanted blank pages at
once. After that you can save the file and hopefully they won't come back.
Hth,
Kellie
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