In the books I have scanned, the page headings and/or page numbers are often in
italics in the original book. I try to get rid of that, but is tedious because
global remove italics obviously cannot be used. I also often have changed the
page number size from 10 to 12, but did not realize the size 10 was a MS Word
problem. I thought it came from the Omnipage OCR program I use.
Misha
On May 19, 2021, 22:36 -0600, Judy <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, wrote:
Hi Lissi,
I too have noticed that page breaks and blank lines around them are often in
italics. I don't change them as the Bookshare conversion tool deletes the
blank lines and doesn't care if the formatting is on the page break itself is
italic--it will ignore that.
Judy s.
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On 5/19/2021 11:10 PM, Lissi wrote:
Dear Judy and Roger,
Roger, I move the page numbers just because I like them there for myself
enough that I don’t mind taking the extra time. And, Kennedy’s Ghost is
checked in. I wouldn’t have seen myself reading that kind of book but it
was gripping and as a newbie in espionage and political fiction, it was
actually fascinating though the ruthlessness gave me scared quivers. It was
meticulously written. Evan and plenty of other readers will find it
engrossing.
Judy, I’ll try your suggestions and let you know my results. You’ve helped
me tremendously before.
Have you also noticed that sometimes the page breaks and the lines around
them are in italics? I expect this when the text before or after or the
page numbers are italicized but I’m finding it %100 of the time in some
books even the text and/or numbers aren’t italicized. I try and remember to
highlight them and turn itillics off but I might miss some. I guess I was
hoping the tools wouldn’t mind italicized blank lines and page breaks.
Oh, and obviously I don’t know how to work the spell check in my new
windows mail.
Always with love,
Lissi
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
From: Judy
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 11:05 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: font and quote control
Hi Lissi,
You have Word 2010 now or Word 2019? The method I have below will work in
either.
The ariel 10 is in the file itself, and is a common fonting problem from
scanning. I run into this all of the time.
What has happened is that the hard page break has been assigned a font size
10 arial by Word. For some weird reason, I find this frequently when a book
was scanned by Kurzweil. Selecting an entire file and changing it to font
size 12 in Kurzweil, before doing any other font size correction, may or
may not correct this problem in or for Word. It's a bug that's in Word, not
Kurzweil, that kicks in when Word reads in and interprets RTF files.
When you add a page number at the top of the page, the font size Word
matches is the most recent previous font size--which is the arial 10
assigned to the hard page break code. That's why you are getting Arial 10.
I use a search and replace to fix this. In the search and replace box, I
leave the search box completely empty but use the drop down box to add the
font attributes of font size 10 and font arial. Then I do the same in the
replace box, but use the font attributes of font size 12 and font tahoma.
You can then search and replace each instance.
I'm going to defer to others for the quotes problems. My thought is that
you may have autocorrect for smart quotations turned on in Word, and that's
what's messing stuff up. There's a section in the appendix of the
Proofreading Manual on how to turn that autocorrect feature off, if that's
the case.
Judy s.
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On 5/19/2021 9:49 PM, Lissi wrote:
Dear Booksharian Friends,
Now that I have Word 2010 I’ve had all kinds of problems. Tonight I’m
writing to ask if anyone has an idea of how I can tell Word what kind of
font I want to type and what to do about mixed right, left and regular
quotes.
Here’s an example of the kind of difficulty I’m having.
Preferring page numbers to be at the tops of pages I remove the number at
the bottom of the previous page and type the number of the page at the
top right before the first word of text if it is in 12 point Tahoma. Last
night when I did this the page came out in 10 point. There are two ways
of enlarging it. I was just bumping it up but on a whim used control d
and discovered that not only was the number ten point but it was always
ariel. I don’t know why my computer is deciding for me to type in ariel
size ten.
The work session before that anything I keyed into a proofreading
document was coming out bold and the only way I could to think to stop
that was to reboot which was when I got the ariel 10s.
My word is also confusing quotation marks. Some files are coming to me
with regular quotes but others have a mixture of right, left and regular.
I tried to replace them to standardize them but I was only allowed to
replace with left quotes which ruined over half of the quotes. I had to
scrap that effort and download the file again. Anyway I don’t know how to
even tell the computer how to make a right or left quote. Also proofing
by ear it is harder for me to hear the punctuation before a right quote
so to be sure I have to listen to one character at a time which slows me
down. Evan showed me how to make the quotes by typing 0 and a number but
that is also quite slow.
Any thoughts about either of these problems would be very much
appreciated.
Always with love,
Lissi who is proofreading like a tortoise with Word 10.
