[bksvol-discuss] Re: eliminating line breaks
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 17:40:19 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks, Mayrie. That is certainly a lot easier and quicker than what I do. I
will definitely try it next time it's necessary. And I'm glad to know that
bookshare will delete two spaces between words so I won't have to worry about
them in the future.
This is a good example of why posting on list is good. smile
Cindy
--- On Sat, 10/4/08, Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: eliminating line breaks
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 5:30 PM
> Hi Cindy,
>
> I guess since this is coming up twice now, I'll tell
> you how I deal
> with those pesky line breaks where they don't belong,
> in the middle of
> paragraphs. But first, to answer your direct question, yes,
> the bookshare
> tools will get rid of the extra space between words if
> there are two spaces
> instead of one. That's one thing the stripper is good
> for!
>
> I know that you, like I, prefer to read your books in
> order to
> validate them. However, I will admit to being a bit lazy.
> Not that I don't
> want to do work, but if I can sit back and read without
> removing those pesky
> paragraph marks in the middle of paragraphs, I will and do.
> I use the find
> and replace dialogue to do this, which takes at most five
> minutes, then the
> grand majority of inappropriate paragraph marks are gone
> before I ever start
> reading. Here is what I do. Since I know that you
> personally use Word,
> I'll tell you how I'd do it using word.
>
> I know I'm stating the obvious here, but paragraphs
> generally begin
> with a capital letter or a quotation mark. I have never
> seen a paragraph
> begin with a lower case letter, so, what I look for are
> paragraphs beginning
> with lower case letters and join them to the word before
> them with a space.
> Does that make sense?
>
> In the find box I would type ^pa
> In the replace box I would type a (that is hit the
> spacebar followed by the
> lower case letter a)
> Then I replace all.
> I do this with every lower case letter of the alphabet.
> And yippee! Most of the extraneous line breaks are gone!
> Now I can sit back and read without fixing each of those
> occurrences by hand
> as they appear in my reading! Much smoother reading!
>
> For those using Kurzweil 1000 the paragraph mark is
> represented in the find
> box by typing \n (that is backslash followed by the
> letter n) then you type
> the lower case letter you want to find.
>
> Have I made sense, or just confused the masses? I love
> making
> things easier on myself and allowing myself, however I can
> to sit back and
> read with as few corrections during the reading process as
> possible.
>
> Okay, I'm stopping now.
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Cindy
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 4:44 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] eliminating line breaks
>
> It is what either submitter or validator needs to do.
> Depending on my mood,
> since I read while I validate I either delete each line
> break manually or
> blacken the paragraph, being careful to leave the break at
> the end of the
> paragraph, and replace with a space, so two words don't
> run together.
> Sometimes this leaves two spaces between words instead of
> one, but then
> generally, at the end, replace two spaces with one; does
> the bookshare
> conversion do that automatically, perhaps?
>
> I've discovered, however, that with the first paragraph
> (each time one comes
> back to the file) one has to eliminate the lines spaces by
> using just
> "replace," not "replace all," or it
> makes the whole document one
> paragraph--and unfortunately a couple of times I validated
> books where that
> apparently had been done. After the first paragraph is
> done, "replace all"
> will work with each new paragraph and you're safe as
> long as you don't hit
> continue or whatever.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> --- On Sat, 10/4/08, Mayrie ReNae
> <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Lord of the Rose
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4:15 PM
> > Hi E.
> >
> > Guess what, I have a solution for this one too! I
> get rid
> > of
> > exactly what you're talking about in every book
> that I
> > submit or validate
> > because I find the extraneous line breaks annoying
> too! Do
> > you want to hear
> > it, or should I leave you alone?
> >
> > Mayrie
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> > E.
> > Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 2:30 PM
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Lord of the Rose
> >
> > The situation with Lord of the Rose does not involve
> > multiple line
> > breaks. it involves single line breaks as in
> >
> > He
> > walked across
> > the room.
> > In the above sentence the only line break which ought
> to be
> > there
> > comes after the period.
> > These linebreaks are obnoxious on a braille display.
> >
> > E.
> >
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