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BetterRed · 09-10-2014, 10:51 PM

@Toxaris - regarding expectations - I expect a tool to be of assistance in getting a job done but I don't expect it to do the job in its entirety - otherwise I'd have nothing to do

I am going to stick with the Calibre DOCX conversion, it already does what I want, I've used it to convert ~50,000 'books', all of which use a common template, which I've probably unwittingly fashioned around the capabilities of the DOCXInput PI.

Regarding the placement of closing quotes in multi para speech. Many of my 'books' are transcripts, they're full of 'soliloquies', there are currently over 6000 of them each styled following Chicago guidelines which on this issue is as per the Authors Blog post. It's also how they are 'presented' by the transcribers, many of whom are former court reporters. So I won't be changing the grammatical/punctuation style from what I already use. On matters of consistency I am somewhat OCD.

But... I think I have a way to use what there is without any significant changes!

When an anomaly is found, I can put a 'mark' on the para via a 'small adjustment', and click No. Then when the dialogue checker finishes I can review the anomalies via Word's Find 'mark' - at my leisure

This will suit my work patterns much, much better.

How will I know what the anomaly is about, by reading what's there, and maybe by having different 'marks' for different types of anomalies.

But I would like to have a way of suppressing all those popups, long documents can take a while to dialogue check, and I prefer to do something other than click 24 OK's whilst I'm waiting

BR

09-10-2014, 10:51 PM	#139
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,811 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Toxaris - regarding expectations - I expect a tool to be of assistance in getting a job done but I don't expect it to do the job in its entirety - otherwise I'd have nothing to do I am going to stick with the Calibre DOCX conversion, it already does what I want, I've used it to convert ~50,000 'books', all of which use a common template, which I've probably unwittingly fashioned around the capabilities of the DOCXInput PI. Regarding the placement of closing quotes in multi para speech. Many of my 'books' are transcripts, they're full of 'soliloquies', there are currently over 6000 of them each styled following Chicago guidelines which on this issue is as per the Authors Blog post. It's also how they are 'presented' by the transcribers, many of whom are former court reporters. So I won't be changing the grammatical/punctuation style from what I already use. On matters of consistency I am somewhat OCD. But... I think I have a way to use what there is without any significant changes! When an anomaly is found, I can put a 'mark' on the para via a 'small adjustment', and click No. Then when the dialogue checker finishes I can review the anomalies via Word's Find 'mark' - at my leisure This will suit my work patterns much, much better. How will I know what the anomaly is about, by reading what's there, and maybe by having different 'marks' for different types of anomalies. But I would like to have a way of suppressing all those popups, long documents can take a while to dialogue check, and I prefer to do something other than click 24 OK's whilst I'm waiting BR Last edited by BetterRed; 09-11-2014 at 01:24 AM.