We can determine how to help you best once we determine whether this book should be accepted. From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christine Parsons Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:43 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Book without blank lines at top/bottom of pages Hi all, I'm currently validating a book that was provided by a publisher (so it is an extremely easy validation), but there are no blank lines at the top or bottom of the pages. I am fairly new here and don't yet understand completely how this all works, but I thought that books are supposed to have these blank lines because of something that the stripper does, so I tried inserting them at the top and bottom of each page. However, each time I did this at the bottom of a page, the blank line transferred to the top of the next page. I have tried changing margins, but this makes no difference either. Are these blank lines necessary at the top and bottom of each page, and if so, how can I successfully insert them? This is a really interesting book, and since it came from a publisher, the text is perfect; so I'd hate to accept it as is (without blank lines) and have the stripper eliminate the first and last line on each page. Thanks. Christine