[bksvol-discuss] Re: formatting question

Hi, Valerie.

Yes, those end-of-line paragraph makers need to be eliminated,with only the one 
that truly is for the end of the paragraph left.

There are two ways that can be done that I've found: the slow,removing them one 
at a time as you read--be careful to replace it with a space so that two words 
aren't together (unless they're supposed to be.

Also, member (I think it's the ones who use Braille, but I'm, not sure) prefer 
text to be flush left and not justified. I Make the change before I start 
proofing.

I'll explain how to globally replace the end-of-line paragraph marks with a 
space in a few minutes

I'm back.

If you use microsoft Word, and are careful. The quicckest way to remove those 
end-of-line paragraph  marks is to highlight a paragraph except for the last 
paragraph mark; you can stop the highlightjust before the last sentence or in 
the middle of the last sentence. The first paragaph that you do this with, you 
have to replace the paragraph hymbol with a space not replace all). But for 
each paragraph after that first time you can replace all
QHWn you're asked if you want to go to the beginning, say no. you have to do 
this paragraph by paragraph If for some reason they all disappear, I'm not sure 
why this happens sometimes. May I agreed to continue rest of dovumrnt or held 
the replace all too long or forgot to the first paragraph with just a replace. 
Anyway, ith a long document I've someritiems done something rong and they all 
disappeared, but you can always clock on the file and say undo replace all and 
start over.

I'vde done this lots of times, most recently with the malcolm x book for Roger. 
When I've done Mayrie's pagesnd prrofed a book or two I'll do it for Workinf 
Class. Appently hata's all that needs to be done with that book.
Cindy

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--- On Fri, 9/18/09, Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] formatting question
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, September 18, 2009, 7:47 PM
> I am working on a book right now that
> has needed a lot of formatting work.
> One of the things I noticed in trying to remove all the
> soft page breaks
> after determining the pagination that every single line has
> a paragraph
> marker after it. I typically only see that at the end of
> the paragraph. Is
> it okay to remove it or are they simply being used as line
> breaks? It leads
> to a very choppy right margin and peculiar spacing if you
> use full
> justification. It seems it would be better off to remove
> them so the text
> flowed more naturally or could be managed better by people
> who might magnify
> it. I am sure I did not fully describe this and it may be
> an annoying
> question to people who do not utilize visual context for
> reading, but I find
> it very hard to proofread, so I can imagine it would be
> equally awkward to
> read the text in its current format. It most certainly does
> not actually
> resemble the actual book in its current state.  Any
> thoughts?
> 
> Thanks as always for your help!
> 
> Valerie
> 
> 
> 
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