Yes, I copied from a message I read here this morning. It read slash so I typed slash. Gee, why does it have to be so hard. Rose Combs rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jake Brownell Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 9:12 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Hi Rose, In Kurzweil the escape key sequence is the backslash (\) not the slash (/) that you wrote in your messages, could that be causing it not to work for you? Or did you just mistype them here on the list... HTH, Jake ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 11:07 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating > I have tried searching for -/n and -/t and replacing with nothing but > every time I get zero corrections are made, but I can still find this > -/nl and I cannot get a rank spelling to work because so many word > endings are floating around. I am not into doing this all manually on a > 900 page document, not even with tomorrow off. > > > Rose Combs > rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx > > -----Original Message----- > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rose Combs > Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:38 PM > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating > > > Thanks. I did not intend to start out big , I did not know the file was > going to be big, it turned out to be more than I'd bargained for but > since I have it I might as well do it. > > Thanks for the K1000 hints, I have used it most for reading and scanning > and have not done a lot of the rank spelling or editing yet. I have a > feeling that is about to change. Now, if it will quit locking up on me > today. > > > > Rose Combs > rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx > > -----Original Message----- > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kellie > Hartmann > Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:16 PM > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating > > > Hi Rose, > Wow, you're brave to take on a gigantic project like this for your first > validation effort. Your experience with medical terminology is a great > asset > for the Bookshare collection. Just make sure you do other more fun > validations too so you don't get Bookshare burnout. <grin> > Here are some instructions/suggestions for your situation. > > First, it may be that the tabs following the hyphens are throwing off > Kurzweil's auto-correction feature. Try replacing hyphen followed by tab > with just hyphen, then run the autocorrect again and see if it helps. > The > way to make a tab in the find/replace box is \t > If that doesn't work, what you might want to do is replace hyphen > followed > by newline, or hyphen followed by tab newline, whichever is occurring, > with > nothing. To do this in Kurzweil all you have to know is that the way to > make > a tab in the find/replace dialogue is \t and the newline character is \n > So to fix a hyphen followed by tab and linebreak you would hit ctrl-h to > enter the find/replace box, then type -\t\n and put nothing in the > replace > with field. After you've done a mass f/r such as this, it's always good > to > check around and make sure it didn't have any unintended consequences. > So I > would save any other changes you made before starting this so you won't > lose > any other changes you may have made if something goes funky with the > f/r. > > I'm sorry if this message is a bit scrambled, I've been dealing with a > three-day-long migraine, and between that and the unfortunately not as > effective as I'd like medicine I may not be running on all eight > cyllinders. > Kellie > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.8/37 - Release Date: 7/1/2005 > >