Hi Misha,
Ah. Sorry about that. The Omnipage OCR program makes the font size 10. The
problem isn't that. The bug is that if you globally change that font size to 12
in Omnipage, and save the file as an RTF, Word will still interpret the hard
page break codes in the RTF as having a font size 10. If you then start typing
anything immediately below or above a hard page break, it will automatically be
font size 10.
Judy
On May 20, 2021 9:39:14 AM CDT, Misha <mishatronics@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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,often in italics. I don't change them as the Bookshare conversion tool
I too have noticed that page breaks and blank lines around them are
deletes the blank lines and doesn't care if the formatting is on the
page break itself is italic--it will ignore that.
myself enough that I don’t mind taking the extra time. And, Kennedy’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
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.
helped me tremendously before.
Judy, I’ll try your suggestions and let you know my results. You’ve
around them are in italics? I expect this when the text before or after
Have you also noticed that sometimes the page breaks and the lines
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.
new windows mail.
Oh, and obviously I don’t know how to work the spell check in my
work in either.
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
from scanning. I run into this all of the time.
The ariel 10 is in the file itself, and is a common fonting problem
font size 10 arial by Word. For some weird reason, I find this
What has happened is that the hard page break has been assigned a
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.
Word matches is the most recent previous font size--which is the arial
When you add a page number at the top of the page, the font size
10 assigned to the hard page break code. That's why you are getting
Arial 10.
box, I leave the search box completely empty but use the drop down box
I use a search and replace to fix this. In the search and replace
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.
that you may have autocorrect for smart quotations turned on in Word,
I'm going to defer to others for the quotes problems. My thought is
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.
I’m writing to ask if anyone has an idea of how I can tell Word what
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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
kind of font I want to type and what to do about mixed right, left and
regular quotes.
number at the bottom of the previous page and type the number of the
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
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.
document was coming out bold and the only way I could to think to stop
The work session before that anything I keyed into a proofreading
that was to reboot which was when I got the ariel 10s.
to me with regular quotes but others have a mixture of right, left and
My word is also confusing quotation marks. Some files are coming
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.
appreciated.
Any thoughts about either of these problems would be very much
Always with love,
Lissi who is proofreading like a tortoise with Word 10.
