[bksvol-discuss] Re: formatting ASCII text
- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 10:34:30 -0400 (EDT)
> There were many hyphenated words. I assume that the hyphens should be
> taken out...
Correct.
>I now have lines of irregular lengths. Is
> this a problem? Should I have instead moved the end of the word up or
> moved the whole word down to the next line?
Sometimes I try to fix that problem, and sometimes not. Sometimes, it
seems like more trouble than it's worth. Gerald has a whole set of
instructions for fixing line breaks, but, when I used them, I caused other
bigger problems. But that was a book with footnotes, and perhaps you
don't have those in your book.
>
> There are page numbers but no other way to discern page breaks. Would it
> help to add form feed characters where there should be a page break?
Yes, you must. Bookshare no longer accepts books without page breaks. ^m
is the page break character in Word, if that helps.
>
> There is usually a single dash whether there is a compound word or a long
> dash. I've been adding a second dash where I think there should be a long
> dash, but is this appropriate?
I do that, too. The long dash in Word is called MDash.
Good on you for taking the trouble to fix up the book.
HTH.
Tracy
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