[bksvol-discuss] Re: A few questions about circumventing the stripper, entering descriptive text, and handling tables

  • From: "Maria Kristic" <maria6289@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:13:22 -0500

Hi Cindy,

Thanks so much. About the brackets, I didn't actually use them when
numbering the pages; I was simply using them in my message to indicate my
example formatting, and the numbers are by themselves on the line (though I
didn't put a space before them; should I?), but I see where that could have
been ambiguous, so I apologize for the confusion. Regarding the page numbers
themselves, the actual text (i.e., the Prologue and after) are numbered with
Arabic numerals, so I'm just using Roman numerals to help differentiate
between preliminary text and the text of the book itself. When there are
blank pages in the book text itself, I've numbered those sequentially using
Arabic numerals. Again, sorry about the confusion. One question about your
message, besides the spacing before page numbers: When you say line break,
are you referring to a manual line break (i.e., typed in a Find/Replace
operation in Word with ^l or ^11, and produced on the keyboard with
SHIFT+ENTER) or a paragraph marker (i.e., typed in a Find/Replace operation
in Word with ^p or ^13, and produced on the keyboard with just ENTER), or
does it not matter? Thanks again.

Regards,
Maria
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Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 7:32 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A few questions about circumventing the
stripper, entering descriptive text, and handling tables

Hi, Maria,

1. Yes, you're formatting correctly. No, you don't
have too man blank lines.

2. I do number blank lines if they're in sequence, so
peopple won't thinbk they're missing anything.
Sometimes I've numbered the beginning pages if the
first chapter does not begin with page 1. I've gone
back from whatever the number wasn, e.g., seven, and
numbered each previous page accordingly, but with
arabic, not roman numverals--unles the pages
themselves, like an introduction or something, have
roman numberals.  (I wonder why we say arabic numbers
but roman  numerals--hmmm.) With the last book I did,
though, I just put a note in the long synopsis that
the main text began with page 8.

I put line break, space, the page number (by
itself--no bracket or anything--I used to, and even
put "blank pge," but as Gerald pointed out, then the
page is no longer blank--and people objected to having
to heard "bracket") space and page break.

3. I do what you did re front and back covers and the
flaps, but I don't bother with the word "text"

4. I think what you've done with the table is
fine--more than enough. It nicely puts the books in
the series under the series title. I don't think you
need the chronology of the different series. It's the
order of books in a series that's important. I think
you did a wonderful job that will help people who want
to read the author's books.

You are certainly a valuable volunteer and we are m
ost grateful.

Cindy

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