The continuing saga of page breaks gets worse ...
Being an Openbook user, the subject of this thread caught my attention, so
I thought I'd better check out just how my quotes were being rendered.
Well in the book I'm working on now, it does seem to represent quotes as an
ASCII 148, or a closed quote. Similarly, it mucks about with the
apostrophe. While this isn't a major problem, it's just one more annoyance
from Openbook.
I also thought I'd check a couple of the books I've submitted that are in
the library, and a separate problem I found there is a major league
concern. I downloaded 3 daisy versions of my submissions that represent a
broad period of time, and in every case I found that pagination was totally
messed up. Page breaks are being lost, and lines that were, and should be,
separate are being run together. The page integrity is shot, with page
numbers appearing in the middle of pages, and the page count being
short. As I don't usually validate my own scans, I thought I'd better
check something I did validate, and it was just as bad.
After the prolonged discussions we've had over page breaks, it would seem
to make any of our previous points moot, as it seems the program that is
used to convert files to daisy disregards existing page breaks anyhow.
Now, there is a possibility that as I was using Openbook to view the daisy
files, that it is actually the source of the problem, but if it is at the
Bookshare end, this is going to be very, very, disappointing.
If anyone else wishes to check out where the page breaks fall, the
following books were all correct when initially submitted, and are just 3
that I've checked.
The Berets by W. E. B. Griffin
Sharpe's Prey by Bernard Cornwell
Killer's Wake by Bernard Cornwell
The following is the validation I checked that was correct when
resubmitted, but no longer seems to be so.
This Pen For Hire by Laura Levine
What do you all find in regard to your submissions???
