[bksvol-discuss] Re: oh dear, I am more confused

  • From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:57:20 -0700

I suggest that if you decide to do that, you state in your comments for the 
validator that none of the formatting is to be changed. That way when the book 
is approved and someone downloads it for you, you will be sure that's the way 
you submitted it. Jill
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Devorah Greenstein 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 6:31 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] oh dear, I am more confused


  So, let me see if I understand. Prefaces and introductions are not core 
content. Tabs disappear. What happens if I type "space, space, space, space, 
space" instead of hitting tab. Does that make any difference to a screen 
reader? To a Braille file?

  Also, I thought that a hard return was how I separate paragraphs, unless the 
scanned book comes to me with an extra blank line between paragraphs, which I 
leave alone.

   

  I think what would help me, as a sighted volunteer, would be to type a sort 
of sampler of different techniques, not copyrighted material, but a text with 
tabs, spaces, extra lines, no extra lines, etc etc., submit the sampler for 
approval, and then get it back from Bookshare to see what it looks like, what 
is lost (unlike G. Cindy, I do want to know what is left and what is removed) 
and what is retained.

   

  Would that be possible? I find myself more confused today. I thought I had 
things sort of figured out. 

   

  Thanks,

  Devorah (in Orlando for a week, having escaped yesterday's eight inches of 
snow in Minneapolis)



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