Text books can be a real pain in the butt can't they? Sometimes you can put the text in order, but other times I have found material that just couldn't be put together to make sense because there are just too many boxes and toppic threads woven together. Putting in a note to say where the current toppic continues is a great help. I think although it is annoying, text book readers are going to have to put up with the mess until and if text book creators decide that spreading everything arround isn't cool anymore. :-) Why not just use bullets for bullets? Stars are a somewhat acceptable substitute, but they are usually footnotes and might not be great if they are used for bullets in a book that has footnotes. Sarah Van Oosterwijck http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity ----- Original Message ----- From: "Merrill Louise" <STARBASEWILDGOOSE@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:50 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Conventions The bullets are used in lists of instructions so I'm replacing them with asterisks--at least for now. I've run into another formatting question though: The book is formatted in three columns per page. It begins with background information. So far, so good. Somewhere in the third column there's a box that starts the instructions. Turn to page 2. The background information continues and when it's done, the instructions continue. If I clump the background material together, I've violated page breaks. Likewise with the instructions. I personally find it disquieting when I break off in the middle of a sentence to find different material and then the thought is picked up several paragraphs later. I suppose I could put (continued on page 2) or whatever the correct page number is, but that's an insertion in the text and not part of the text. Opinions? Suggestions? Merrill Louise, Pastor The Judson Fellowship Jamestown, New York cell/office 716.969.2840 "With all my heart I praise the Lord, and I am glad because of God my Savior. (Luke 1:46-47) ----- Original Message ----- From: Jana Jackson To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:45 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Conventions Hi, Merrill! you might want to replace the bullets with an asterisk if they are used to denote something important. Or if they aren't in the way of anything, you can just leave them as is. One page at a time... What a project! <Smile> Jana ----- Original Message ----- From: Merrill Louise To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 1:29 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Conventions I'm scanning a book for a class which I hope will end up on bookshare when I'm done. It makes great use of bullets which turn up as zeros or other strange scanner interpretations. My question is: what should they be replaced with or not replaced at all? Secondly, this book has handouts -- the kind that are supposed to be photocopied for a class. I would think I would just present the text for the print disabled user and not worry if they could be recreated as handouts for sighted people. You could buy the print book for that purpose. It's still in print. Oh yes, and the book is big and has to be scanned one page at a time. Yuck! Merrill Louise, Pastor The Judson Fellowship Jamestown, New York cell/office 716.969.2840 "With all my heart I praise the Lord, and I am glad because of God my Savior. (Luke 1:46-47)