[bksvol-discuss] Re: Page breaks
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:20:20 -0800 (PST)
Jill.
I was going to let others answer your question because
I didn't know how to explain. As Guido and Pratik
said, page breaks are not simply spaces. In Word, it
prints as a single line, as opposed to a double line,
which is a section break. On my Mac, in Word,I create
it by hitting the shft key and the enter key (which is
on the calculater partof my keyboard) simultaneously.
My scanner OCR puts in page breaks automatically. I've
been told that in txt there is a little square that
indicates the page break.
I think Guido explained it's purpose. People have said
here that they don't think breaks are necessary in
fiction but they agree that they're necessary in
nonfiction and textbooks. The page numbers are
important, as Guido says, so that one can get to a
particular page if one leaves off reading, or if one
is in a class and is supposed to read certain pages,
etc.
Hopefully someone else can give you more info about
why they're necessary as long as there are page
numbers and one knows if the number is at the top or
the bottom of the page, and also how to create them in
whatever format or technology you're working.
Cindy
--- Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jill, In other words, very much like in a printed
> book, or in a Braille
> book, the pagebreak in an electronic book allows us
> to advance rapidly
> through the book Or to go back rapidly through the
> book.
>
> Technically, a page break is not even a blank line,
> but a special
> invisible character.
>
> Guido
>
> Guido Dante Corona
> IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> Research Division,
> Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
> Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
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> "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Jill,
>
> Imagine that you are reading a print book. When you
> are ready to turn a
> page, you flip one. In an electronic book, the
> space considered to be the
> page break designates this turning. And divides the
> material into the type
> of sections that a physical book does. It is not
> only a blank line.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Pratik
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> Pratik Patel
> Interim Director
> Office of Special Services
> Queens College
> Director
> CUNY Assistive Technology Services
> The City University of New York
> ppatel@xxxxxx
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jill O'Connell
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 3:48 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page breaks
>
> I need clarification about page breaks. If there is
> no other information
> on
> the line with the page number, why do we need to
> worry about page breaks?
> I
> assume that a page break is simply a blank line; is
> this correct or am I
> over-simplifying?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:49 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page breaks
>
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> > Unless you can see (or hear) page numbers, I think
> you
> > need the book to know where to put the page break.
> If
> > the page numbers are there, you can put the page
> > before or after the number. Without the book you
> > wouldn't know for sure if the numbers are at the
> top
> > or the bottom of the page, but you might be able
> to
> > guess from the first page.
> >
> > Some children's books don't have page numbers,
> When I
> > did one that was like that I put in the long
> synopsis
> > that the book was unpaged. If the book doesn't
> have
> > page numbers and no one in your family can get the
> > book for you, maybe you can make an educated guess
> > from the context where the page break should go.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> > --- awmckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > Could one explain to me in more detail than the
> > > instructions file provides bookshare's stance on
> > > page breaks. What, as a validator, do i need to
> make
> > > sure of or correct in that area? For instance, i
> was
> > > cleaning The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble
> With
> > > Friends and it had been reposted with the
> comment to
> > > check for page breaks. Probably a bad choice for
> a
> > > newby, but there is definitely know page breaks
> in
> > > this file. Thanks a lot for your patience with
> all
> > > my questions!
> > >
> > > Andrew
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