[bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?

  • From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:23:03 -0500

It came up in one of our perennial discussion about how to protect chapter titles from being deleted by the infamous Stripper. Some of us advocated using page numbers, as the cleanest and most elegant method. Others mentioned putting stars or other junk characters above the chapter titles. I'll have to look at the archives to see how many it was, but I seem to recall some people saying that they typed the word "Chapter" above the chapter title to do the job. 


Evan
----- Original Message ----- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx> 
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I didn't know that people added the word Chapter to headings. (Shrug)
Apparently, there's much I don't know.

Shannon
Who can heal, but one who has healed herself?
Who can know, but one who has asked and sought?
Who can lead, but one who has traveled the way?
--ancient French proverb
----- Original Message ----- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Although I do not do this, people add the word "Chapter" above chapter
headings to protect them from the Stripper, so I don't see why adding the
word "page" in front of page numbers would be a problem in principle.
But there is another problem. If the page number is at the top, I'll bet the 
Stripper would remove the word "page", thinking of it as a header. Or, as
likely as not, given that the stripper doesn't always seem to be consistent, it would remove it in some places and leave it in others, making it useless. 

Evan
----- Original Message ----- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 2:59 PM
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I don't know that we're allowed to do that actually. I think we're required 
to leave the text as it was written, not adding or deleting or changing
anything.

Shannon
Who can heal, but one who has healed herself?
Who can know, but one who has asked and sought?
Who can lead, but one who has traveled the way?
--ancient French proverb
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 11:30 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?


Okay, here is an extra and keep in mind that this is an extra and I am
not actually requesting that anyone do this. When I am reading a book
with a synthetic voice I notice that there are occasional numbers
sprinkled throughout the text. There may be only a few in the case of
a novel when a character asks the price of an item for sale or
mentions how many miles it is to the next town or there may be a lot
in the case of a cookbook or most especially in the case of a math
textbook. In all cases, though, it is not necessarily always clear
when a page number is being read. To make this clear the validator who
wants to do something extra could add the word page before each page
number and then a phrase at the end of a page like, "how many miles is
it to the next town?" page 82 "About four," he answered, can be clear.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:45 AM, My Nickels Worth <lavendar@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Ok, I am wondering if we can put together a list of things a validater
can/should do to make a book a really good one for the collection…  This
is
a sort of companion thread for the older one about being a black belt
submitter.. What are some things which a validater should always do, what 
are things which are extras, according to bookshare's requirements, but
which could really improve the book for the collection?
Maybe an experienced validater could give an example of what they do with 
a
book from downloading it off step one to uploading it for publication..

Thanks,
Caitlyn

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