[bksvol-discuss] Re: unique format, any suggestions?

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:42:32 -0700 (PDT)

How awful. The book itself did that? I've never seen
such a thing. I wonder if it was self-published as
opposed to being published by a professional
publication house. Who was the publisher?

Cindy

--- Katie Star <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> HI Lissi and all, 
> 
> I've been doing some scanning here this weekend. I
> scanned a book call The
> Wild Island which is a British book. Gees, I thought
> I had lost my touch on
> scanning.... Well, when I got some sighted help to
> make some corrections I
> made a big discovery. 
> It seems to make all the lines the same link there
> were a large number of
> lines that had words run together to make them fit
> and other lines that put
> extra dashes and spaces between the last word of a
> sentence and the
> punctuation. 
> For example: AS I walked down the street I saw a
> large black cat . 
> Or: As iwalkeddownthestareet-I saw a largeblackcat .
> 
> 
> The strangest thing I have seen since I started
> scanning. 
> 
> Katie Hill 
> Miracles happen not in opposition to Nature, but in
> opposition to
> 
> what we know of Nature.
> 
> -St. Augustine
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Estelnalissi
> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 5:40 PM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] unique format, any
> suggestions?
> 
> Dear Readers,
> 
> I'm validating a memoir with a format I'm not sure
> how to adapt in an RTF 
> file Using Microsoft Word.
> 
> Paragraphs are deeply indented, but that's not
> anything difficult to deal 
> with. What's unique is the dialogue. It is always
> preceeded by a double dash
> 
> and indented way far in. This makes the first line
> of dialogue short and the
> 
> second line is more indented than the paragraphs.
> 
> It's as if the dialogue is short little paragraphs
> within paragraphs. Most 
> of the time the dialogue is short bursts of only a
> few words on a single 
> line.
> 
> If I understand correctly Bookshare tools ignore
> tabs. Does this mean I 
> should indent using the space bar? Will these
> indents disappear on portable 
> braille reading devices? I'm asking so I can avoid
> too much empty space or 
> confusing the reader. The Dashes before each quote
> are a good indicator, so 
> maybe the deep indent isn't needed and I could
> indent dialogue like any 
> paragraph and the double dashes will alert the
> reader. Oh, and to add to the
> 
> mix, there are no quotation marks or apostrophes
> bracketing the quotes.
> 
> I read the author has theater background and the
> almost centered bursts of 
> spoken words remind me a little of some script
> formats.
> 
> To follow the book's print format exactly I'd need
> to indent 4 spaces for 
> paragraphs, 6 spaces for the second and subsequent
> lines of dialogue and 8 
> for the first lines of dialogue.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance. While I wait for your ideas, I
> have a second book to 
> upload in as many days. The last one was only 139
> pages long and an easy 
> one. I'm making headway on my validation queue.
> 
> Always with love,
> 
> Lissi. 
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