[bookport] Re: Paginations
- From: Dorothea Martin <dotty-martin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:05:12 -0400
Ah, Rob, a man after my own heart! Lose Word! Good advice in any case, no
matter what? I have been considering taking it right off my machine. Thanks
for the tip about the form feed characters for page breaks in a text
editor. Didn't know that one.
Dotty MartinAt 08:25 AM 7/27/04 -0400, you wrote:
>Nolan:
>
>Book Port does not recognize Word's page breaks. In my oppinion, the best =
>thing you can do is lose Word and just use a text editor. Then, you can =
>insert Form Feed characters (Ctrl+L) for as many page breaks as you wish.
>
>Rob Meredith
>
>>>> ncrabb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 07/26/04 05:54PM >>>
>Hi, Everyone,
>
>I've scanned a number of titles which I will eventually upload to Book=20
>Share, but I want to read them first. I've stripped errors and inserted=20=
>
>manual page breaks in MS Word at the point where the pages break. Does=20
>Book Port recognize the manual page break symbol in MS Word as a=20
>marker? Well, obviously it does, so let me try the question differently:
>
>Let's assume that I copied the symbol for the manual page break from MS=20
>Word. Now I want to put it in the list of markers for Book Port to =
>find=20
>when I'm using it. Does that symbol faithfully copy to the transport=20
>software's list of markers? I know the manual page break symbol, done =
>by=20
>doing a Control-Enter keystroke combination, is apparently different =
>from=20
>the page break symbol that occurs in Word when you reach the end of a=20
>page. I've created custom-sized pages such that the manual page breaks=20
>resulting from the scan of the book are always closer together than the=20
>paper size, thereby preventing Word from inserting its own automatic =
>page=20
>breaks. I hope I've not confused and bored everyone utterly to the=20
>brink. Please someone who has worked with the insertion of markers in =
>that=20
>list, let me know whether the manual page break in Word will faithfully=20
>copy into the Book Port transfer software list. For some reason, I =
>can't=20
>get Book Port to recognize new pages when I'm reading one of my scanned=20
>books and tap the 9 or the 7 keys to go forward or backward through a =
>book=20
>a page at a time. It works great with web-braille books and with =
>braille=20
>magazines from NLS. I just can't seem to get it to recognize the MS =
>Word=20
>manual page break thing.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Nolan Crabb
>
>
>
>
>
>
Other related posts:
