[bksvol-discuss] Re: taking out headers which repeat

  • From: "Gerald Hovas" <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:09:35 -0600

George,

No, Bookshare accepts Fair books and will continue to do so for the
foreseeable future.  Of course, Fair means different things to different
people, and what many people would mark as Fair, others, especially on this
list, would consider too poor a quality to bother with.

Gerald

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Marshall
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:30 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: taking out headers which repeat

Gerald:
I noticed one of the books added yesterday had a rating of "fair", I thought

Bookshare wasn't accepting ratings below good.

George R. Marshall
geom4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerald Hovas" <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:17 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: taking out headers which repeat


> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 8:00 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: taking out headers which repeat
>
> 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.
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 412-544-8177
>
> "If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you are right."
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