[bksvol-discuss] Re: Where are those contrarians?

  • From: Pam Quinn <quinn.family@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:11:26 -0500

But stripper or no stripper, I've seen books from bookshare with
garbage at the tops of pages. It isn't always removed because the same
garbage isn't repeated, so it isn't recognized as headers.

Pam



>Actually removing headers for someone not used to using find and replace is 
>not so simple particularly as many may contain junk characters.  Also, 
>though a print book reader would find headers at the top of pages the 
>reader would also find pictures.  We are eliminating them for reasons which 
>are obvious and removing headers from a verbally text seems a reasonable 
>request by a reader.
>
>Esthetically, I personally thing garble at the tops of pages makes a book 
>seem sloppy.
>
>E.
>
>
>At 11:59 PM 7/22/2005, you wrote:
>
>>And as has been said before, those who want the headers stripped can
>>easily do it for themselves. If you bought the regular print book the
>>headers would be there so by stripping them we're changing the book
>>anyway. I think a good many of us validators strip the unwanted
>>headers as it is and leave page numbers intact.
>>
>>But all that be3ing said, there are superior programs out there that
>>carefully strip headers, like the one in K1000, and the obvious answer
>>that would satisfy everyone is to upgrade the program that bookshare
>>uses.
>>
>>Pam
>


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