[bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Breaks in txt files
- From: Pam Quinn <quinns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:29:22 -0600
I wonder if it has to do with what you are using to edit them? Because
even if I save .txt files and convert them to .rtf, the page breaks
are still there. In the .txt format, they look like this:
Pam
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:11:56 -0500, you wrote:
>Unfortunately, txt files, I've found, don't retain hard page breaks. What I do
>is leave a line space
>before and after the page number and indicate in the long synopsis, for the
>reader, that the page
>number is at the top or bottom of the page, as the case may be.( Maybe I leave
>a double space
>between the page number and the new page -- I can't remember -- or maybe I
>don't but I
>should.)
>
>Cindy
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Breaks
>Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:36:17 -0600
>
>>
>> Will bookshare soon not accept txt files? I ask this because many programs
>> don't deal with
>pagebreaks in text files properly even though txt files are usually capable of
>holding page
>breaks.
>> I also wonder if a validator can introduce artificial page breaks that did
>> not exist in the original
>just to make files that are in perfect condition other than missing page
>breaks acceptable, or
>must the pagebreaks be where they would be if the original submitter had kept
>the pagebreaks
>cause by actual print page size?
>> Thanks for the clarification the the issue.
>>
>> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
>>
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