[bksvol-discuss] Justified re flush left formatting
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:25:20 -0700 (PDT)
I was waiting to see if anyone answered Jill before I
wrote, and you did, Jim. I'll just add that someone
posted some time ago that they preferred flush left
margins to justified format (the perfect square),
which most print books are, for the very reason that
Jill pointed out. Apparently it makes reading, whether
in Braille or Daisy or both I don't remember, more
annoying. Since that was posted, I've been
reformatting every book I validate so the margins are
flush left. Even then, depending on how long some
words are would come at the end of the line, there are
some longer spaces between words, but nothing like
when the format is justified. It does look lovely, but
if you can't see it, it doesn't matter.
OT: One of my many jobs in my life was as a
proofreader. One thing we couldn't allow was having
identical words or phrases be at the end of two
consecutive lines. Apparently it's confusing to the
eye, when the format is justified, which it usually is
in magazines, too, and the eye tends to skip to the
wrong next line.
Cindy
--- jnuttallphd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Jill:
> Bill Clinton's book Giving used the type of text
> font where they make the page be square. This is
> done by adding spaces between words. This is the way
> the book was published. This can be fixed by simply
> highlighting all text and doing a left justification
> for the text. If you are not able to do that, I can
> do it for you. Other books submitted look like to
> book being scanned. Others have not reported any
> problems. As I say if you want help reformating the
> "Giving" just let me know.
>
> Jim Nuttall
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 12:40:48 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Submitted: The Healing
> Energy Experiments
>
>
> I am using this reply to tell you of a problem I am
> having while validating Giving... The words in the
> book are all separated by wide spaces and there are
> a lot of hyphenated words. Can you tell me what
> method you used to scan this book; do you know
> whether your other scans look like this as well? I
> don't want to reject this book if I can avoid it but
> probably need Bookshare staff to take a look at it.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jnuttallphd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 1:05 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted: The Healing
> Energy Experiments
>
>
> Submitted for Validation:
> The Healing Energy Experiments by Gary Schwartz
> (2007)
> (Headers removed, blank pages identified and
> numbered, carefully spell checked so no spell check
> required)
> Summary:
> Over the past three decades, an impressive body of
> scientific evidence has
> emerged that points to consciousness and its
> capacity to mediate healing.
> Are energy fields real? And if so, can they be used
> for healing and health? Yes, according to Schwartz,
> a professor at the University of Arizona. He tells
> marvelous stories of such healings and uses
> experiments to confirm that the human body is a
> bundle of energy that can be healed by another such
> bundle of energy. Through experiments with EEGs and
> EKGs, Schwartz says, he and others have found that
> our bodies are masses of biochemical energy, that
> such energy connects us to plants and other animals,
> that this energy can be harnessed for healing and
> that some people are in touch with their energy and
> use it to heal others.
>
> Jim Nuttall--Michigan
>
>
>
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