[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question re caps

Very often too, the beginning of a new chapter will have the first letter in very large type, often causing a scanning error.
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NO, SOME BOOKS CAPITALIZE THE FIRST LINE OF THE PAGE, AND THE FIRST SENT-
ence is longer than a single line, so you end up with something like this
when they allow hyphenated words at the end of lines.

I don't understand why publishers think this is a good practice, but I've
seen this several times, so some publishers must like it.

As I said, I compromise by putting the word SENTence back together, then
changing it to SENTENCE so that it looks like the following.
NO, SOME BOOKS CAPITALIZE THE FIRST LINE OF THE PAGE, AND THE FIRST SENTENCE
is longer than a single line, so you end up with something like this.

Still looks a bit odd, but its better than leaving the split word there, and
it attempts to preserve what the publisher wants the text to look like.

Gerald

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E.
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:57 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question re caps

Are you telling me that the original print would have a sentence where the
first few words are in solid caps and the rest of the sentence is
not?  Example below.

THIS IS A SAMple sentence.

Isn't this a scanning error?


E.
At 11:47 AM 4/21/2006, you wrote:

Bud,

Taking out the spaces is fine.  Spaces in between letters is an OCR error
and not a factor of the original print.

Thanks.

Pratik

Pratik Patel
Director, CUNY Assistive technology Services (CATS)
The City University of New York
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bud Schwab
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:32 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question re caps

Hi,
   I leave the caps the way they are also except I take out the
spaces between letters which so often appear so it reads
better.  Hope that's ok.

BudAt 10:17 PM 4/20/2006, you wrote:

>Hi Cindy,
>
>A lot of books I have downloaded from the collection to read in brf
format
>have part or all of the first sentence in caps, and when I validate a
book 
I
>leave them that way.
>
>HTH,
>
>Sue S.
>
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>From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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>Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:04 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question re caps
>
>
> > The books I'm validating now has the first sentence of
> > every chapter in capital letters. In the past, if the
> > file I downloaded did not put them in caps, I didn't
> > either, since when I proofed for PG the rule was not
> > to. In fact, I might have change them to normal
> > sentence case. The last book I validated that had the
> > first words in caps,I did leave them rather than
> > change them, but now I'm wondering--especially for
> > those of you who listen to the books--I seem to
> > remember someone saying, at least as far as e-mails
> > go, that caps are louder and/or indicae emphasis. Is
> > this true in books? Shall I change the first lines of
> > the chapters to ordinary sentence case?
> >
> > Cindy
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