[bksvol-discuss] Re: Got feedback and need help to follow suggestions
- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:42:05 -0400
Hi Kim.
Well, here goes. I proofread in Word, like you, and I use Jaws. Don't
know what you use.
>Important:
>1. Chapter 12 begins on page 118. Chapter 14 begins on page 140.
>But there's no chapter that is marked Chapter 13.
You could only tell this by either reading the whole book, or by searching
for the word Chapter and making sure they are all present and correct.
>2. Font sizes
In Jaws (and NVDA), insert-f will tell you the font. I usually spot-check
a few. If a font is wrong, select the text, hit alt-o for the format
menu. Font is the first dialog. Hit enter, tab twice to size, and adjust
it to what you think it should be.
You could select the entire document and change the font size, but then
you lose the differences in font size between the headers and the body of
the text.
>Trivial (as in: don't worry about it!)
>1. the 3rd page of the file is still an upper case Roman numeral "III".
So?
>2. no page number on p. 34.
Page through the whole book and make sure all pages in the body of the
text have numbers. Title pages, contents, dedication, and such often do
not have numbers, and I leave them like that. It's not my place as a
proofreader to add numbers that aren't there, except where they're omitted
on the first page of a chapter.
>3. there are several tab characters in the file.
In Word, you can find and replace on tab characters. Find ^t, and
manually delete it, or:
Do control-h to open find and replace. Tab to More and hit enter. Tab to
Special and arrow down until you find the character you're interested in.
Hit enter. Then you can tab to the replace box and either put in a space
or leave it blank. Then, if you're bold, you can choose Replace All!
This statement isn't actually true though, I think. Some tables are
delimited by tabs, and removing all tabs, as Rick suggests, would make a
mess.
>4. a number of the chapter headings have numbers whose "Position" has
been "lowered", rather than having "normal" positioning. The numbers
appear as if
they are subscript, but they are not subscript. One must go to the
"Character Spacing" tab of the Font dialog to see this. Examples of this
are for the
chapter headings of chapters 2, 5, 6 and 12.
Beats me, and I don't care.
>5. also for many of the chapter headings, the word "Chapter" is in
"Small Caps", which we do not want.
Hitting insert-numpad 5 in Jaws twice quickly will spell any word, and
will raise pitch of any capital letter. Or you could go to the Find
dialog, tab to more, hit enter, and check the box to search for specific
case, then search for lower-case chapter.
>6. don't do any indenting, of any kind, ever. Said another way, always
remove all indenting from the scan. On p. 164, the chapter heading has a
"First
line indent". Don?t remove individual instances of indenting. Instead,
select the entire document and uncheck various indenting settings in the
Paragraph
dialog.
Don't much know, don't much care.
7. as you probably know, the first lines at the beginning of each chapter
often have paragraph marks that shouldn't be there. This is often because
the
very first letter of the very first word of a new chapter is a "drop cap",
or a huge letter. After the text of Chapter 11 begins, the first 3
paragraph
marks should not be there.
Don't much know, don't much care. Though I do try to make those first
letters match up with the rest of the text, and delete extraneous blank
lines above the first sentence.
>8. There are several garbage characters in the first sentence of page 20,
immediately after the words "three nights ago".
Try searching for the usual suspects, like @ ~ \ etc.
These last several are not big deals though.
HTH.
Tracy
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