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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Like I said, the   should have been . That is fixed in my version. The fact that an is placed, is because a lot of readers/reading programs will ignore, and thus not display, empty paragraphs. So, the only way to mimic this, is by either making the paragraphs only seem empty or by removing them and set a margin. The first option is the most simple and closest to the original situation.
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I should add that I would never normally have an empty paragraph in the source document, it was remiss of me to have them in my test document, and I should have mentioned that earlier.
I did write somewhere (maybe elsewhere than here tho') that I never have empty paragraphs and tabs in a document, indeed I have a search and destroy macro that I use in my final clean up. Patently I didn't apply my own rules in that small caps test document.
Peccāvī, peccāvī on all counts Your Grace
Re Search and Replace Settings
In the list on the left - should the up/down pointers move rows in the rules document Table 1, it didn't when I tried it. But I edited Table 1 in the rules and got the result I wanted.
Could the line items have a check boxes for
whole words only and
find all word forms
I'm finding the S&R really useful for dealing with transcriber abbreviations; different transcribers use different abbreviations <sigh>
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Originally Posted by Toxaris
I have halved the number of pop-ups. There is still mention on what quote pair will be checked next. Otherwise you would not know what is being checked at the moment in case you need a manual adjustment.
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You seem to be saying that users must remember what was in the last pop-up box they clicked through when they get the next Correction pop up. IMO that's an unrealistic expectation. They might have picked up a ringing phone, answered a call of nature, serviced their caffeine addiction, dealt with an attention seeking cat. Or perhaps they suffer short term memory loss because of their age
Would it not be better to have the 'Correction pop up' inform the user of the current Dialogue Checker phase - see attachment.
I'm getting "Paragraph mark found between opening and closing mark!" errors around some dialogue paragraphs that have no leading or trailing attribution, in passages such as this:
Mary swept into the room looking like the cat that got the cream.
"It's beautiful day."
After a glance outside Fred said glumly, "But I think it will rain later."
But it appears to be inconsistent, i.e. its not all unattributed dialogue paragraphs.
Does the presence or absence of dialogue attribution play any role in the Dialogue Checking? I think it may depend on whether the following paragraph contains dialogue. And it may only happen when the search direction is Up. If I can find a consistent pattern I'll report back.
BR