[stylist] punctuation

Ashley Bramlett bookwormahb at earthlink.net
Thu Nov 11 03:23:27 UTC 2010


Text analysis?  I am installing the new jaws soon, jaws 12. What does it 
tell you other than multiple spaces?  Interesting.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] punctuation


>I set something and at the beginning of every paragraph it says, "Normal." 
>This is not what I had in mind.  How can I turn it off?  Thanks, Judith
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brad Dunse" <lists at braddunsemusic.com>
> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] punctuation
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>> This is what the new Text Analysis does in Jaws. Picks up missing items, 
>> multiple spaces and etc. I haven't messed with tweaking it much but it is 
>> helpful. I also found that in older versions of Jaws if you set your 
>> scheme to Classic with Quotes and set the quote voice to a lower pitch,, 
>> if a beginning or closing quote is missing it will continue to ramble in 
>> the lower voice where it ought not and so you know something is up.
>>
>>
>> Brad
>>
>>
>> On 11/10/2010  06:32 PM Judith Bron said...
>>>I just dfound another missing quote in a 395 page document.  You have to 
>>>keep your ears tuned to the document and you pick up errors like this.
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" 
>>><bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
>>>To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>>Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 6:39 PM
>>>Subject: [stylist] punctuation
>>>
>>>
>>>>Judith,
>>>>
>>>>JAWS tells me if quotes are missing.  I have to pay attention to it, but
>>>>if there is not a quote where one should be, the absence of quotes is
>>>>noticeable because JAWS will not say it.  Like with dialogue.
>>>>
>>>>Bridgit
>>>>
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