Hi Rafael:
Well, the ellipsis was wrong in the first place :-)
If it HAD been ".... " the search would have found the ". " part and
replaced it with ". " (two spaces).
Which is why I allow Word to replace an ellipsis with the Unicode
ellipsis,
which is a single character.
But Gracie is correct: this is stuff authors leave to people who can't
think
of books to write :-) Any publisher worth dealing with has a Proofing
Editor somewhere who will fire a macro on your manuscript as a matter of
course, probably before even looking at it, to put all this kind of thing
right.
I certainly do :-)
Cheers
On 13/05/08 3:20 AM, in article C44DCA5B.75F4%rmnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Rafael
Montserrat" <rmnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I found something that got messed up. At the end of a sentence where
four
> periods (.... ) indicate a full sentence (not a partial, cut off in the
> middle) with the end period ending the sentence, the .%% procedure
turned
> this.... into this. ...
>
> I can probably figure out from Johns input how to fix it, but if
someone's
> there, would you mind just telling me? And if you can think of anything
> else that might have gotten messed up.
>
> Thanks, Rafael
>
>
> I just did a lot of "? ", "?spacespace" and the same with "! " and
> they're all fine.
>
> John, I absolutely do remember now when you helped me with this ".%%".
>
>
> On 5/12/08 10:06 AM, in article C44DC71C.7078%rmnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Rafael
> Montserrat" <rmnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> I just did John's .%% and did change (6000+) all.
>>
>> I know I haven't reviewed the whole ms yet, but have I messed up any
other
>> types of end punctuation as per what Bob Jones said, "However, you'll
have
>> to repeat substituting the period with other end punctuation." I
don't
>> quite understand. Could any of you explain?
>>
>> Also, "...the little left jellybean in the lower left corner of the F&R
>> dialog & check the settings to make sure they aren't interfering with
the
>> process." I know that lower half jellybean section and use it a lot,
but I
>> don't know what Bob is referring to in this case.
>>
>> Rafael
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Gracie,
>>
>> I appreciate your saying that.
>>
>> I'm too much the perfectionist, and I really do have a deadline.
>>
>> Rafael
>>
>>
>>> Hi Rafael,
>>>
>>> I'm a published author, and while publishers DO care about
double-spaced
>>> manuscripts, you don't have to worry about getting ellipses correct or
>>> spacing
>>> properly between sentences because the copy editor will take care of
that.
>>>
>>> I'm not saying don't try to be grammatically correct, but don't let
worrying
>>> about protocol keep you from your deadline.
>>>
>>> gracie
>>>
>>>> OS 10.4.11
>>>> Ibook G4
>>>> 1.5 GB Ram
>>>> Word 2004
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> My grammar settings are for 2 spaces required between sentences. I am
>>>> running the spell and grammar check on a long do***ent which is full
of one
>>>> space between sentences. The Grammar checker points each one out and
I
>>>> change it. It's time consuming and boring.
>>>>
>>>> My question is: how can I do a Find & Replace, and change those
errors all
>>>> at once? I've tried various combinations in F&R, but I can't get it
right.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Rafael
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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