[bksvol-discuss] Re: editing books you are not necessarily interested in reading
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:30:44 -0500
These are the ones I wrote for myself and forgot about when I took an
extended vacation until I accidentally found them. Remember that I use
K1000.
1. Check for space and punctuation marks except period, open parenthesis,
quotes and
apostrophe.
2. Check for quote space quote, or, if English, apostrophe space apostrophe.
Fix as needed.
3. Check for dash and longdash followed or preceded by space.
4. Check for tabs. These can show you where there might be problem pages or
line problems in K1000. Line 1 doesn't count.
5. Check for new-line followed or preceded by apostrophe. (Same reason as
above).
6. Check for bar, carat, vertical bar, pound sign, percent, dollar.
7. Check for quote space quote by hand. Will let you know where paragraphs
have been joined.
8. Check chapter beginnings.
9. Change spaces to space.
10. Change pairs of periods to periods with a space between.
11. Check page numbering, especially for 1-11 and roman numeral pages.
12. Check for 1's that should be I's (usually surrounded by spaces or
newlines).
13. Do rank spelling.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amber Wallenstein" <amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:05 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] editing books you are not necessarily interested
in reading
How do those of you who scan books for the wish list for example, but you
might not be interested in reading yourself, how do you make the copy as
good as you possibly can? So far, I have been removing page headers, and
protecting chapter and page headings, but since I want a really good copy,
should I just read through the books even if they don't necessarily interest
me? If this helps, I have access to Kurzweil, and MS word as well as a
Braille display for reading. I am also running windows XP Home.
Thanks.
Amber
Book blog:
http://community.livejournal.com/book_cuddler/
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consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I
give
you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
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