[bksvol-discuss] Re: Empire Falls, and a validating practice question

  • From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:16:23 -0600

If you rescan the table you should probably convert it to simple text instead 
of leaving it as a table because it is very likely that it will not come out 
correctly in the final bookshare files.  I unfortunately don't have a good 
suggestion for what to do to make a table work, since tabs and multiple spaces 
have never appeared in anything I have examined.  I heard that tables would be 
functional at some point, but I haven't heard that the fix was implemented yet.

As for the extra pages in the book.  I wonder if the validator put the book in 
Word to validate and had it add page breaks because it thought some of the 
pages were too long.  Losing blank pages was common with Kurzweil in the past, 
but adding is a little more strange.  I do find it very annoying when they get 
messed up, but I don't think it is the bookshare system that is doing it.  I am 
certain it is usually caused by the validator.

Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kenneth A. Cross 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:11 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Empire Falls, and a validating practice question


  Do you want me to try to get the table?The book, I think, was the collected
  short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It wasn't that the contents were
  messed up; it was that in changing the page numbers the number of pages was
  greatly increased; accordingly, the contents were no longer correct; in a
  short story book, that doesn't make the book very easy to use.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:03 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Empire Falls, and a validating practice
  question


  > I have validated a lot of your books Kenneth Cross and wonder which book
  > ended up with a messed up table of contents etc.
  > By the way, I was just double checking on that copyright issue with Daily
  > Life in Chaucer's England since copyright verification is not my thing.
  >
  > It is a great scan.  The only thing which did not come out quite right is
  a
  > small table.  It is interesting I am sure since it talks about the price
  of
  > everyday goods and how much various folks in society obtained as income.
  >
  > E.
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