Hi Y'all,
Guess that's about it for "2 Spaces..." unless anyone's got anything else.
I learned a lot. Thanks
Rafael
On 5/13/08 4:05 AM, in article C44FAC19.14CEB%john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"John
McGhie" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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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