Trove is where all my notes with Emdash come from.
When correcting the OCR there is a place at the top of the page where you can insert a symbol and Emdash is top of the list. I have been inserting the symbol in place of a simple dash if an Emdash is shown on the image of the article. I then do as you do and copy the article into a .txt file (I use Notepad++) and tidy it up before copying and pasting into Legacy. In Legacy v 7.5 there was no problem with the Emdash. As it looks like this is an ongoing problem in Legacy post v 7.5, I will need to go and replace all those '97 instances with a simple dash (if I can find them all) , and remember to just use a dash in the .txt file from Trove before pasting into Legacy. Jennifer Ringwood North, Victoria, Australia From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Friday, 21 April 2017 10:47 AM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Emdash rendered '97 This is probably peripheral to the discussion on Emdash / Endash and Legacy FT's clean-up abilities. One source of information that I use a lot is from digitized (Australian) newspapers, at Trove <http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/> . The OCR text usually requires correction (human recognition) and that includes changing Emdash to hyphen, inserting spaces, concatenating hyphenated words, etc etc. But a simple Copy then Paste into a Notes field in Legacy isn't an option for me. Stripping the HTML doesn't improve the situation - but that's fine by me. Routinely, I paste into a plain-text editor set up in a simple Encoding (for PC of course) - using an Encoding like Unicode BOM is asking for trouble, I have found. Then, I create accurate text but sometimes leave it in newspaper column format - or, make it more readable in continuous-text paragraphs. This process is much lengthier than just changing a few single-symbol bits like an Emdash. But I have seen the 'conversion' by Legacy to '97' which is why I adopted the method described. I find it has a benefit - I read more attentively, and understand better. Some of the articles - and even common-place advertisements - are fascinating. >From Trove, an image or PDF file at a selectable range of resolutions can be saved to disk, so the scanned source imagery is available and can be attached to Legacy as a media file, if warranted. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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