Tracy, there is a tip on Jake's site about replacing potential problem characters such as the opening and closing quotes that gave you grief in this book.
http://www.jbrownell.com/bks/tip.asp?id=18The tip there covers the opening and closing double quotes, but also contains instructions on looking for and replacing opening and closing single quotes, the special ellipsis character, and a note on making sure that MS Word does not replace the generic characters with it's so-called "smart" ones.
While it is true, as Ann says, that this is not likely to occur often, I do understand how you feel when something you did not know about and therefore were not prepared to even look for in order to correct it, comes out of nowhere to seemingly ruin all your hard work and waste your time. Believe me, from one perfectionist to another, I would feel just as frustrated as you feel now. Luckily for me, I scanned my first books with OpenBook 7, and noticed that the quotes in my scans looked odd on my Pac Mate's braille display; so I did some investigating and found out what was going on. I also found out that my version of MS Word would tell me that it has replaced the smart quotes with straight quotes, but if they were not turned off in the Autocorrect submenu, it put the smart quotes right back again. It was very frustrating at first, because I knew how to get rid of them in Word, but didn't at first know how to keep them gone.
To answer someone else's question here: K1000 does not use the opening and closing quotes, but OpenBook version 7 does insert them into scans. I do not know about version 8.
Don't lose your heart. This really won't be a problem with most books, and it does not take long to find and fix them now that you know how to do it.
Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 12:55 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: smart quotes
OK, I did that. But how the hell was I supposed to know I had to do that? What other weird-ass thing is Daisy doing to the files I've submitted, thinking they're as good as I can make them? Anything else Bookshare can do to make me feel like all my valuable time is being totally wasted? "Ha-ha! Every book you've validated is a complete mess!" Thanks a million. TracyHi Tracy, The problem with smart quotes is that they appear as â characters in the converted DAISY file which appears on Bookshare. This means that, in the RTF file, they will still appear as smart quotes and not as â characters. Smart quotes and generic double quotes differ only in their ASCII values in terms of how a screen reader will announce them and output them to a Braille display, so to replace them, you'll have to do a Find/Replace in Word with ASCII values. The opening smart quote is ASCII 147, the closing is ASCII 148, and the generic one is ASCII 34; to specify ASCII or ANSIcharacters in the Find/Replace dialog, type a caret (^, SHIFT+6), followedby the character code. So, first perform a Find/Replace, typing ^0147 in the Find edit field and ^0034 in the Replace edit field, and Replace All; then, perform another Find/Replace, this time typing ^0148 in the Find field and again ^0034 in the Replace field. If that doesn't work for you, omit the first zero after the carets in all cases (i.e., the sequence in each edit field would then be a caret followed by a three-digit number). This should replace the smart quotes with normal ones. Incidentally, and this is just an aside, though it relates, Word, by default, is set to automatically replace normal quotes with smart quotes when you type a quote (SHIFT+APOSTROPHE). If you want to disable this specific replacement, go to Tools > AutoAutoCorrect Options in Word. You'll land on the AutoCorrect tab, so CTRL+TAB once to land on the AutoFormat As You Type tab You'll land in a list view of options. DOWN ARROW once to land on the Straight Quotes with Smart Quotes check box. Press SPACE to uncheck it, then ENTER to close the dialog/save changes. HTH, Maria ________________________________________ Maria Kristic Skype: MariaKristic AIM: MCKristic E-Mail and MSN: maria6289@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Google Talk: Maria.Kristic@xxxxxxxxx Yahoo Messenger: mariakristic@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Tracy Carcione <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:27 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] smart quotes I can't even find any a circumflex in my rtf file. Either this Bob is making it up, or editing in rtf is totally pointless, and I might as well give up validating altogether, as I appear to be completely wasting my time. I have gotten a lot of pleasure from validating for Bookshare over the last 3 or 4 years, whatever it is, but how the hell can I fix things I can't even find? First I spend a lot of time working on a book that was a duplicatesubmission, and now these stupid smart quotes, whatever that is. I'm veryfrustrated!!!!!! Tracy To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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