[bksvol-discuss] Re: chapter headings revisited
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:23:09 -0600
I really hate looking at books I have submitted after they are put in the
collection. they always look better when I have just finished with them. I
just looked at Swallows and Amazons for instance. In my KES copy of the
book I can set user defined page numbers and actually use the table of
contents. Of course that isn't very important in a children's fiction book,
but this is only for an example. If I open the daisy version and set page 1
to user defined page 1 and then try to use the table of contents it doesn't
work at all, so page breaks and numbering is totally messed up. The headers
are stripped, so the page numbers are also gone. I noticed that the page
numbers in the table of contents are squashed against the chapter titles,
which makes reading them disgusting. In my KES copy there is a tab after
the chapter title and before the page number.
When I look through the book to find the beginning of chapters I notice
that the chapter number and title are squashed against the text, which looks
sloppy in my opinion. I don't know if that was done automatically or by the
validator. I had carefully put in extra headers to protect my chapter
numbers and titles, and that was my initial reason for looking at the book.
Now i don't know if that actually would work or not.
I guess we really only know how everything works, or doesn't work, if we
scan and validate ourselves and then check the final result.
I really wouldn't like to use a text book messed up this way, so I might
still scan it myself if I could instead of gettting it from bookshare.
Being able to find one's place is just too important.
I am extremely unlikely to reread something I have scanned, so I am unlikely
to find out what else might have happened to it.
If it were up to me I would get rid of the header stripper not the headers
in books. I don't know what would solve the other problems.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
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