[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating
- From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:01:50 -0700
Right, I followed Kelly's message and between our two headaches I guess
we got our wires crossed.
Rose Combs
rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jana Jackson
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 9:31 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating
Hi, Rose! You want to search for hyphen, backslash T or hyphen,
backslash
N. I think you've been using the forward slash. You want the
backslash,
right below the backspace key. Hopefully, this will help. Happy 4th!
Jana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 11:14 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating
> Message is not scrambled, but my brains are, and I know the headache
> thing.
>
> It sits here and keeps showing me a -nl in for example me-chanical and
I
> have tried searching for -/n -/t -/t/n and it says there are none but
I
> am sitting here looking at one and more in the same paragraph. I have
> been reading the manual, following your suggestions, and either I am
> going to have to submit it the way it is because from reading I am not
> finding spelling errors, missing pages or anything or I am going to
have
> to release it.
>
> I cannot devote a whole week to doing this task manually, it just
won't
> work that way.
>
>
>
> 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
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