[bksvol-discuss] Re: Cookbook question

  • From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 23:24:12 -0500

Hi, Kim!

Neither numbers or tags, just a dot between steps.  I have decided to be 
grateful for her time consuming work of placing each on its own line and put a 
single asterisk between paragraphs.

Hopefully it will read well this way!

Valerie


On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:18 PM, Kim Friedman wrote:

> Hi, Valerie, in the paragraphs giving instructions, are there numbered
> steps or are there little tags like: Adding Wet Ingredients: Frying the
> chicken: that sort of thing? The red dots wouldn't mean anything to me
> but numbered steps would provided they're in the printed text. Regards,
> Kim Friedman.
> 
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> 
> I am proof reading Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution from an off list
> volunteer and have a question.  It appears to be an exceptional scan,
> especially for a cookbook.  I think the scanner is totally blind, but
> she did something amazing, if so, that I think is very helpful, but
> different from the print.  In the print, the directions are in a
> paragraph with red dots between each direction, upwards to ten or more
> in a paragraph.  Anyway, it appears at least as far as I have looked,
> that she put a paragraph break in place of each dot, making it more
> readable.  I am highly inclined to retain that since it is visually MUCH
> easier to follow.  If I do, though, how to indicate the print
> paragraphs, a single asterisk?
> 
> Also, there are tons of gorgeous pictures, but will everyone be
> heartbroken if I stick to the cookbook part since it is like 372 very
> large pages?  Or, if we split credit, does someone want to do picture
> descriptions?  I would love to get this up before Nichole has her
> surgery and pictures would be out of the question in that time frame.
> 
> Thanks for any help and guidance!
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