[bksvol-discuss] Re: taking out headers which repeat
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 08:17:57 -0600
Jim,
Bookshare prefers that you don't work in TXT because of the loss of text
attributes and the possibility of stripping page breaks. They even removed
TXT from the list for file formats that they would accept back in September
to prevent people from submitting in TXT and to discourage people from
working in TXT.
You mentioned that a book you were working on didn't have any page breaks.
That's probably because Word can strip page breaks when converting to TXT.
BTW, Word's capable of doing the things you mentioned below.
HTH
Gerald
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Hi,
I am having some success using a program called NoteTab. The free version
will work for these purposes. Here is how I do things. It worked on my
first book and I am using it on the Python one.
After downloading an RTF or Doc file, I use Word to save it as a text file.
Next I bring it into Notetab.
I defined the page break character to a JAWS dictionary entry so that it
speaks when I land on it.
Next, I select the whole document with Control+A.
After that, I go to the Modify menu and select trim blanks. This gets rid
of trailing spaces.
To find page breaks, I use Control+F and type ^b, then Enter. The default
is to search down toward the bottom of the document.
F3 searches in the same direction. Shift+F3 reverses the direction of the
search.
I make sure that section headers are directly to the right of lines that
contain page breaks.
The first time I find a section header, I copy it to the clipboard and make
sure I include the page break character.
I then move the cursor below the first occurrence of a section header and
use Control+R for the search and replace dialog.
I paste into the Find What field.
Then I tab to the Replace With field and paste again.
Then, I delete everything but the page break character from the Replace
With field.
Then I press Alt+A for Replace all.
I also get rid of occurrences of more than two line breaks and multiple
spaces.
Notetab is at http://www.notetab.com.
After I have gone through the file, I bring the text version back into Word
and save it as an RTF.
Thanks.
Jim
James D Homme,
Usability Engineering
Highmark Inc.
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