[bksvol-discuss] Re: Ariella Papa again
- From: "Shannon A. Reece" <shazza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:20:52 -0700
Okay Gerald thank you for the answers to both my queries. The book I validated
and accepted before getting the Papa was .rtf and had such obvious page breaks
that I sensed something was wrong with the Papa book.
But now I have one more, based on your message below.
You said:
The trick is to open the tXT file with Word then immediately save it as RTF or
a .DOC file. until you're ready to upload. At that time, it should be saved as
an RTF file anyway.
But isn't the book supposed to be uploaded in the original format that it was
downloaded in? So in the case of the troublesome Papa book, doesn't it have to
be in .txt upon upload since it was .txt when I downloaded it?
And also, should I have rejected the book instead of releasing it if I had the
strong sense that the page numbers were not in that file?
The last thing I want to do is give Gustavo, or any validator, grief by doing
something wrong.
Thanks again!
Confusedly yours,
Shannon
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald Hovas
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 6:33 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Ariella Papa again
Hello again,
TXT files are notorious for not having page breaks. If I remember correctly,
Word doesn't handle TXT files properly and removes all the page breaks when you
save the file as TXT. The trick is to open the tXT file with Word then
immediately save it as RTF or a .DOC file. until you're ready to upload. At
that time, it should be saved as an RTF file anyway. The only reason I know of
to convert to a .DOC file instead of to RTF right away is that .DOC allows you
to spell check the document in multiple sessions without losing your progress
and having to start over from the beginning. Most people don't worry about
that, though, and just go ahead and convert to RTF right away.
It sounds like the page breaks were probably missing in the original file
that you downloaded, though, which will mean an automatic rejection unless
someone can find a copy of the book and add them to the file.
HTH
Gerald
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Shannon A. Reece
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 8:21 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Ariella Papa again
Okay, it's me, the pesky newbie full of questions, again!I just released back
to the download pool the book by Ariella Papa, called Bundle of Joy. the
reason I did this was because to my way of thinking, the book did not look like
it had page breaks, but I readily admit to being too much of a newbie at this
to say for sure. So I released it so that someone with more knowledge than me
could look at it. but was this the best way I could have done it, or would it
be better to reject it with my comments? The book I just validated and
accepted had obvious page breaks, but this one looked like most of the
pagebreaks happened when Word, (it's a .txt book I looked at in Word)), had a
full page, not when there would be an actual page. At the beginning and end of
this book, there were quite obvious breaks, which is why I felt most of them
were missing. Any advice on how to handle this kind of thing better in the
future?
Sorry for all the silly questions and any help or suggestions would be highly
appreciated.
Shannon
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