Hi Aidee,
Yay! At least we're on the right track since these are definitely
vertical tabs. Vertical tabs, by the way, are an ancient print command
that originated back in the days when programmers had to tell a printer
the size of a washing machine how to move different mechanical
components around to print out a page. Programs like Word display them
on a screen the same way that they display line breaks, but they
actually do something a little different than a line break. I'm dating
myself, but I haven't seen a vertical tab used since the late 1970s!
If you'd like, send me a few pages of the altered document attached to
an email as a rtf, and also send me a few pages of the original document
as a rtf the same way. I'll look at the codes and tell you if replacing
the vertical tabs biffed the formatting for the document. My email
address is: cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Judy s.
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On 6/29/2016 5:31 PM, Aidee Campa wrote:
Hello Judy:
It seems that they were, in fact, vertical tabs, because when I did a find and replace for ^11, Word tells me it replaced over seven thousand of them with a space. I did this in a different file than the one I started proofreading, and the original is still in tact. When I asked JAWS to look for ^13, it just showed me blank lines, so I’m pretty sure they were/are vertical tabs. The manual doesn’t say if the conversion process does anything to vertical tabs, although it does say it removes extra blank lines and spaces.
Since I can’t see the screen, I don’t know what a vertical tab does, although the person who scanned the book tells me that the example I showed him of a vertical tab in the text is a line break in the book.
All that to say, I can remove the vertical tabs, but I’m worried of messing with the original formatting of the book and I’m unsure of whether or not said formatting would be preserved after the conversion process.
Thank you for pointing me towards the ^11.
Any advice on whether I should remove them in the file I check in to BookShare? (hope that made sense)
Thank you so much for all your time and help.