[bksvol-discuss] Re: paragraph spacing
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:21:23 -0800 (PST)
Sarah,
Thank you for the information. We can now validate and
upload txt files as rtf--one of the major improvements
bookshare has made.
I do use Word, and have figured out out to set the
indentations of paragraphs in the document as a whole,
but how would I set it for skipping lines between
paragraphs? Where would I find that? Not that I want
to any more, after your explanation of what happens to
the skipped lines--although Braille readers were the
ones, as I recall, who said they preferred that--but I
am curious to know, in case I do want to. SOme of the
books I validate already have skipped linesw betwween
paragraphs and then I don't change them, of course.
Cindy
--- Sarah Van Oosterwijck
<curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It doesn't matter too much how you format
> paragraphs, because most people either read with
> speech or braille, in which case they don't
> experience your formatting, or they can adjust the
> paragraph formatting to suit their needs once they
> download the book from bookshare. What is very
> important is that you let your software do the
> formatting--meaning that you use Word's paragraph
> formatting menu to set how paragraphs are displayed,
> because that will let the conversion software handle
> paragraphs in whatever way makes sense for the
> format used. Besides, that method really is a lot
> easier and faster than manipulating every paragraph
> by hand.
> Really I believe bookshare's software only looks for
> paragraphs, but doesn't actually preserve or care
> about how they were formatted in the original.
> Deciding how to display paragraphs is a matter for
> the software being used by the reader and totally
> depends on the format being used.
> DAISY seems to suppress blank lines for paragraphs,
> HTML double spaces paragraphs, and BRF uses a single
> new line character followed by a two space indent.
>
> The only exception I would give to this rule is for
> TXT files. If you submit the TXT file back to
> bookshare as an RTF everything is fine, but if you
> upload as TXT then paragraphing you have done in
> your Word processor may very well be lost, so double
> returns may be the only way to allow any
> paragraphing to survive the conversion process.
> Unfortunately the hole paragraphing issue with TXT
> files is something I haven't completely figured out,
> so I can't write anything more informative or clear.
> I'd just suggest that you avoid uploading TXT
> files.
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> Assistive Technology Trainer
> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
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