[Nfb-science] question about editing papers with co-authors

[Cheryl Fogle]

Thanks, John, for your suggestions for editing. Actually, 
my question arises because I’m dealing with my committee 
members editing draft chapters for my dissertation.  I 
generalized the question since I figure I’ll encounter 
track changes again in my career.

On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:58:52 -0800
  John Miller <j8miller at soe.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Cheryl,
> I am very proud of you. You are truly doing the work of 
>a scientist when you co-author a many page MS word 
>document.
> The entire engineering community vastly prefers track 
>changes in MS word.
> I feel that JAWS is really poor at this task. It could 
>be my bad training in JAWS, however.
> One idea: have your assistant paste all revisions in to 
>a word document or text document with notation such as 
> Original doc said: ...
>First author proposes ...
> Etc
> You can pretty easily in JAWS learn the page number and 
>line number of where you wish to make your own edit.
> I find it much faster to collect my edits with where I 
>would like to place them and ask my sighted assistant to 
>paste them to the desired location.
> 
> Another thing to check is if vocal-eyes handles this 
>situation any more gracefully.
> Let us know how it goes and have a great weekend!
> Very best,
> John
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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>cheryl fogle
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 6:17 AM
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> Subject: [Nfb-science] question about editing papers 
>with co-authors
> 
>        Hello all,
> 
> I'm looking for tips on productive ways a blind person 
>can edit papers with co-authors.  My sighted colleagues 
>favor using the "track changes" option in word for edits. 
> I have found difficulties where Jaws 11.0 commands don't 
>bring up the list of revisions for me in Word 2003 with 
>Windows XP pro.  I went through the Jaws application help 
>on that topic and have already stumped technical support.
> 
> Can anyone suggest technical or nontechnical ways to do 
>the edits.  I have limited use of an assistant if I 
>choose to do the editing with a reader, but another 
>entity is paying for those hours.  Can anyone give a 
>ball-park estimate for hours of reader time needed to 
>edit about 50 pages with multiple revisions per page? 
> Thanks.
> 
> Cheryl
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