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

  • From: "Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:03:59 -0500

Don't forget to send me the page number or approximate location of the table.  
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sarah Van Oosterwijck 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 12:16 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Empire Falls, and a validating practice question


  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
  http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Kenneth A. Cross 
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    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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