[stylist] Modifying background, was Checking Format

Thu Mar 15 01:23:03 UTC 2012

Donna,
    It seems to be working very well for me. I am having one issue, though, 
in that one document is saying, near the end of the doc,  that my background 
is "Ivory2". I cannot seem to find how to modify this. Can anyone give me 
some direction?

Marion


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Checking Format


> Marion,
> Thanks for the heads-up about the Jaws setting. I have to call them 
> anyway,
> so I'm going to ask about that.
> Donna
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Marion Gwizdala
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 2:42 PM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Checking Format
>
> Donna,
>    Thanks for replying to me with this information. I called Freedom
> Scientific and they helped me set up a proofreading setting that will be
> very helpful; however, I couldn't tell you how we did it! (grin) As I 
> arrow
> down the lines, it reads the font, size, and characteristics. When it
> encounters a difference, it alerts to that change. It doesn't do this,
> though, when doing a "read all". I think this is exactly what I was 
> looking
> for!
>
> Peace!
> Marion
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
> To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Checking Format
>
>
>> Marion,
>> I find that I need to go paragraph by paragraph with format checking.
>> Theoretically, if you go down to the body of the article and select all,
>> you
>> should be able to get the formatting info with Jaws key+ f. In MS Word,
>> that
>> gives you the font face, style and size, paragraph type and line spacing.
>>
>> The problem is that it often says "mixed font, mixed style" when it 
>> isn't.
>> That's why I go one paragraph at a time. That also gives me a chance to
>> check the space between paragraphs. If you're in a block format (no
>> indents
>> for paragraphs) where you need a blank line between paragraphs, you go to
>> the beginning of the next paragraph (control + down-arrow) and up arrow.
>> Hopefully, it will say "blank." If there are two blank lines, you can
>> delete
>> one.
>>
>> The problems come when you are copying and pasting material from other
>> files
>> or the internet where the formatting is different than you wish, or when
>> you
>> italicize or boldface something. The copy and paste is fairly easy, if 
>> you
>> remember to double-check it.
>>
>> If I'm copying from the internet, I use the "paste as special/unformatted
>> Unicode" option in the edit menu to paste the material into a separate
>> document than the one I'm writing in. That way, I can fix the formatting
>> to
>> what I'm using in my article before I paste it in and forget about it.
>>
>> With the command "control + down-arrow, you are supposed to get to the
>> beginning of the next paragraph. If the next paragraph sounds like the
>> sentence is already in progress, you unfortunately have line breaks that
>> need to be removed. I usually just go through the material line by line 
>> to
>> see where the unwanted line breaks are and delete them. You often have to
>> add a space so words don't run together. If you're on the first line, go
>> to
>> the end of the line and check the last character. Then right arrow to see
>> if
>> there's a line break or a space. It's a bit tedious, but it works and 
>> does
>> get faster with practice. You also have to make sure that you don't 
>> remove
>> line breaks that really belong.
>>
>> When you italicize, boldface, underline or center something, don't rely 
>> on
>> the select by line command. It often chooses more than you really want. I
>> select and then deselect character by character till I deselect the last
>> character that I wanted selected. Then, I re select just that character,
>> so
>> I know I'm getting only the text I want to change. After it's done, I
>> check
>> the formatting on the characters before and after the selection to make
>> sure
>> they haven't been changed.
>>
>> Spelling is another problem. Sometimes, you can hear that you've used the
>> wrong word. For instance, I can hear that "there" is different than
>> "they're" and I know which one is appropriate for which situation. Also,
>> in
>> context I can hear that "This is going to far," is wrong. It's "this is
>> going too far."
>>
>> This doesn't always work, however. Suppose you don't know that there are
>> two
>> separate words like grizzly and grisly. The bottom line is that no one is
>> ever perfectly correct all the time. We're limited by our own knowledge
>> and
>> by our habits. We expect that we've chosen the right form (who's or
>> whose),
>> and even though we were tired and in a hurry when we wrote something, we
>> assume that we didn't get that wrong. Your proofreaders are also limited
>> by
>> what they know and what they expect to see.
>> HTH,
>> Donna
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Marion Gwizdala
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:47 PM
>> To: Stylist List
>> Subject: [stylist] Checking Format
>>
>> Dear All,
>>    whenever I write something for submission, I always have a sighted
>> person take a look at the document to ensure that there are no formatting
>> issues, e.g., page or line breaks where they should not be, font changes,
>> or
>> changes in print color or shading, that spell check or screen reading
>> software does not pick up. Is there a way such things can be proofed
>> independently by a blind writer? Any input is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> fraternally yours,
>> Marion Gwizdala
>>
>>
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