[bksvol-discuss] Re: words split across pages

  • From: "Julie & Miss Mercy" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:18:48 -0400

This is just my opinion, but I don't believe we should be making every page 
end in a complete sentence. I do believe it can be important to bring 
sentences together if they're interrupted by boxes, picture captions, 
footnotes or whatever, but if the sentence is interrupted just by going over 
to the next page, I believe we should leave those alone. If the header 
interrupts it, chances are, the stripper will remove that, anyway. Those are 
just some thoughts I had in reading this message. Take care.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 12:52 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: words split across pages


Thanks for mentioning this, E.

I think it really does make a big difference not to have the sentences
interrupted by the headers and page numbers.  I too have been adjusting to
see that the ends of  pages end in complete sentences. I figure if I have to
look for the hyphenated words at the end of pages, I may as well make the
page end with a complete sentence.   And as you say, this is ESPECIALLY
important when there are footnotes at the bottom of the page.  A reader can
really get lost when the text of the page gets interrupted by a bunch of
sentences in footnotes.

Although this is something we can do when validating, it would make me happy
as a clam if the person who scanned the book and submitted it took the time
and care to do this.

I am beginning to feel that scanning in batch mode creates a heck of a lot
more work down the road than just doing the scan a page at a time, or 2 at a
time in 2 page mode with most books. And to at least spot check each
paragraph of each page.  Then if the scan is bad, you can just delete the
page right then and there and do a re-scan.  Happy as a clam all over again.
Time for a clam bake.  Put on your Elvis Presley record, and pull out that
old 1960's Elvis movie Clambake, .  (smile)   But who the heck really knows
how happy a clam is anyway?  (That could be a topic for Andy Rooney, huh?

Rik



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elizabeth and
Burton
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 6:36 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: words split across pages

As a validator, I move words and sentence fragments so that sentences end
on one page or begin on another.  This is taking some liberty with the
positioning of text though not with the text itself.  I do this to make
reading go more smoothly for both braille users and voice users.  I find it
particularly necessary to do this in cases where footnotes at the bottom of
pages break up the flow.

Hope this helps.

E.

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