[bksvol-discuss] Re: Need more help, please.
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:11:32 -0700
Hi Tim,
Please don't remove any pages. It is very likely that the long synopsis
comes from the back cover. You said that, didn't you? Please label this
page [From The Back Cover]. Many times readers like to see this upon
opening a book so that they can know what they're going to read about, much
as you might while scanning your own personal bookshelves for a book to
read, if you're like me, and you have scads of books that you have acquired
and haven't read yet, but forgot exactly what they were about since the time
they came into your hands.
I'll give you instructions for standardizing your paragraphing format,
making all of your lines left justified. Have you standardized the font so
that all of the body is of one size and font type, and then enlarged and
bolded the appropriate headings such as title, parts, and chapters? If you
have already done the enlarging and bolding, standardizing the font will get
rid of that and I don't want to make you go to more work. Let me know if
you'd like instructions for standardizing the font, usually done before
doing anything else to a book, and before putting in heading bolding and
enlargement so as not to have that get messed up by standardizing font after
that has been done.
Oh, I'm so sorry. This is not my most intelligent e-mail ever. Please ask
questions if you have any, whenever you have them. We're all very willing
to help you however and whenever we can.
It's great to have you with us!
Here's how to make all of your document left-justified:
Standardize paragraph format (this step is for books that do not contains
tables).
Select all text with a control a (hold down the control key while tapping
the a key once)
Under your version of Word's paragraph formatting menu, set the indents and
spacing as follows:
Alignment: left or justified (either choice is acceptable)
Indentation left: zero
Indentation right: zero
First line indent: by: 0.2 (chose a number from 0.2 to 0.5. for best
results.)
Spacing before paragraphs: zero
Spacing after paragraphs: zero
Line spacing: at least 12 point
Hope that helps!
Mayrie
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Need more help, please.
Milissa,
On the first scanned page, the long synopsis from the back cover is
reproduced here (it is also at the end of the back matter). It's followed by
the short synopsis in the front matter. That is followed by other books by
the author (page iii). The title and author appear on page iv.
Should I delete the first long synopsis? What about the two pages before the
title page? The copyright and dedication pages follow. No ToC in this book.
Also, quite a few lines and blocks of lines are center or right justified.
Will your instructions take care of those?
I do not see any manual line breaks or paragraph marks. After your reply, I
will execute your very detailed instructions (greatly appreciated).
It is a sci-fi book: "Dark Is The Sun" by Phillip Jose Farmer; no poetry. I
love sci-fi, anybody scanning them (hint)? I also like New Age/Metaphysical.
I hope you have a lot of patience with me.
Tim
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