[bksvol-discuss] Re: Tudoor England
- From: socly@xxxxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:02:34 -0500
Sue, I think you'll have to convert it back to ASCIi text, or plain text, to
upload it -- or have you tried that already? Books downloaded in txt, which are
identified on my computer as plain text when I've done it, have to be uploaded
like that.
Cindy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sue Stevens" <jmu1942@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Tudoor England
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:28:32 -0500
>
> Hi Kenneth,
> On the download page it said the file is ASCII text. i.e., for Tudor
> England. You say you have kes, and Julie put a note on that says they have
> to be converted. So did you convert the file to ASCII? I can't seem to
> upload it. I get the message: problem copying the file. I have been
> reading it with Wordpad,, but it seems I can read either text files or RTF
> with wordpad. I want to get it up there for youuu, but I do not have
> Kurzweill or any other type oof reader like that. I use Jaws with a Braille
> display, but it does read what is on the screen. So, hmm. If you have a
> copy with page numbers on it, maybe that one would be better. (smile) Had
> I known it was a kes file before download, I would probably not have chosen
> it for my first go, but it did say ASCII text. So what do I need to do to
> get it to upload? When you are new at something you can get into the
> darndest messes. (smile)
>
> Sue
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 3:45 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Tudoor England
>
>
> The page numbers are at the top. Also, it would be easy to submit the book
> in rtf if that is desired. I stopped submitting long books in rtf because
> the kes files were generating some blank pages. Let me know your
> preference.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <socly@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 2:19 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Tudoor England
>
>
> > Sue, Unfortunately txt files have to be uploaded (i.e., returned after
> being validated) as txt files. the first
> > one I did I converted to Word to work on and found it couldn't be uploaded
> as rtf. When I converted back to
> > txt all the special fonts, e.g. italics, were gone and the page breaks
> were gone.
> >
> > What I do now when I validate a txt file is not worry about the page
> breaks that appear automatically, but I
> > put a line space before and after the page number, and a note in the long
> synopsis that the page number
> > is at the top or the bottom of the page, as the case might be. Has
> Kenneth told you where the page
> > numbers appear in the book?
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sue Stevens" <jmu1942@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Tudoor England
> > Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:12:13 -0500
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Kenneth,
> > >
> > > I have not converted this book, just downloaded and unzipped it. It was
> > > listed as a text file and I have not changed that. It had an excellent
> > > rating before download and as far as I can determine thus far the rating
> is
> > > deserved... The only thing is that I only see page numbers at the
> beginning
> > > of each section, and these numbers agree with the Table of Contents in
> the
> > > front.
> > >
> > > All that said, you have obviously done a great deal of work on it so I
> would
> > > like your opinion on what I should do. You have no doubt submitted
> other
> > > books and would know if I should convert it to RTF, give it to a more
> > > experienced validator to edit and insert pagination, or if the
> publishing
> > > equipment at Bookshare will insert page numbers.
> > >
> > > I am new at vallidating for Bookshare, but your book caught my interest.
> So
> > > please tell me what you would like done and I will not be offended.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > Sue Stevens
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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