[bksvol-discuss] Re: clearing out line breaks
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 12:34:59 -0500
I wish I had more time at this moment so I could think about the sequence of
find and replace commands you would need to use to do automatic cleanup of
these problems, but it isn't simple. You absolutely must read through the
book after not before you do the find and replace, because a few problems
will be caused, although a great number of problems would be fixed, so the
work involved in fixing afterwards is much easier. I know that Kellie has
become a near expert in fixing those kind of scanned messes, so maybe she
could help. I'll write my suggestions tomorrow or Monday if you still need
them.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
curious entity at earthlink dot net
----- Original Message -----
From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 1:48 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: clearing out line breaks
> Cindy I need a set of find and replace commands which get rid of hypens
and
> end of line breaks without getting rid of those which follow periods. So
> far I have not been able to do a find and replace for say ". end of line
> break" or ". followed by space and end of line break" They simply do not
> show up in the search. I am sure this was formatted for braill output or
a
> display by the number of linebreaks and hyphens which appear in the middle
> of sentences. I cannot go through the book and delete them by hand. It
> will take much too long.
>
>
> At 12:41 PM 8/13/2004, you wrote:
> >E,
> >
> >I'm not sure what you're working in -- if it's
> >something like Kurzweill that I know nothing about. In
> >Word or rtf, I simply delete th hyphen and the word
> >closes and either stays on the first line or goes to
> >the second line. If the word is hyphenated at the
> >bottom of the page I either move or write in the last
> >half to the page the first half is on or vice versa
> >(remembering to delete the half that remains if I've
> >written the half instead of moving it).
> >
> >With misplaced page breaks (and I've come across them
> >often, in tis book and others), I blacken and delete
> >them just as I would a word or character -- and put in
> >the break where it belongs.
> >
> >I hope I've been clear and not confusing.
> >
> >Cindy
> >
> >--- "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a file here which has unnecessary line breaks
> > > and breaks of -
> > > linebreak. It seems to have been formatted for a
> > > printout or something
> > > with necessary hard line lengths imposed. Is there
> > > some easy way to get
> > > rid of the line breaks without removing them from
> > > the ends of
> > > paragraphs. (They show up as ed sign p on
> > > braillenote). Anyway to get rid
> > > of the apparently end of line hyphens which break up
> > > words. The hyphens
> > > have linebreaks with them too.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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