[bksvol-discuss] Re: Chapter Headings
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:51:25 -0800
Hi Reggie,
Unfortunately, no. Most OCR software creates files with wildly varying font
sizes. Let me see if I can still find the instructions that I once saved
telling how to deal with fonts in Word.
First, if you want JAWS to tell you information about selected text, first
select the text, then press the JAWS insert key and the letter f and JAWS
will tell you all of the font attributes of the text that you have
highlighted. So, for example, to know what a chapter heading looks like
that reads something like "Chapter 1" place your cursor at the beginning of
the line of text, press shift plus end which will highlight the entire line
of text, then use the JAWS insert plus the letter f to hear all of the font
attributes including whether or not the text is normal, bolded, italicized,
and the size of said text.
I'm going to paste below, if I can find it on my hard drive the section of a
document created by Judy a while back about how to standardize font in a
book, and then how to enlarge the size and bold the chapter titles.
See below.
Happy proofreading! And please ask any question if you stall have them.
Mayrie
6.
Standardize font.
Standardize font to Times New Roman size 12 with title and chapter headings
at 16 and bolded. Then set scale, spacing and position of font to normal by
doing the following.
Select/highlight the entire font by pressing control plus a
Open the font formatting menu by typing the following key sequence: alt o f
(the alt key, followed by the lower-case o key, followed by the lower-case f
key)
On the tab for Character spacing, set the Scale to 100%, the spacing to
normal, and the position to normal. Special note: You don't have to use
Times New Roman as the specific font. Other common straightforward fonts,
like Georgia, Arial, Verdana and Garamond are fine. Special note: because
your Chapter headings will lose their formatting, if they had any, they will
be optimized in the next step for best conversion by Bookshare's tools.
7.
Format book title.
On the book's title page, reformat the book title by selecting the text of
the title, bolding it and changing the font size to 20
8.
Protect and format chapter headings
Protect all chapter headings by placing the page number followed by a blank
line above the chapter heading and a blank line between the chapter heading
and the text on the page. You do not need to move all page numbers to the
tops of pages, but doing this on the pages that has chapter headings helps
to protect the chapter headings from being accidentally removed by a
software tool used by Bookshare to process the book after it has been
proofread. When you do need to move a page number from the bottom of a page
to the top to protect the chapter heading, make sure that only one page
number exists on each page.
Format each chapter heading by selecting the text of the chapter heading,
bolding it and changing the font size to 16.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of regina alvarado
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 12:04 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Chapter Headings
Mary, using jaws and word. Venture most scanners do this automatically?
Reggie
-----Original Message-----
From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 11:48 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Chapter Headings
Hi Regina,
If you don't make the font on chapter headings larger than the text of the
body of the book, anyone using the daisy book won't be able to jump from
chapter to chapter in the book. If you tell us what screen reader you're
using, we can give better instructions for how you can do the enlarging, or
see if it has been done already by the scanner of the book.
Happy proofreading!
Mayrie
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of regina alvarado
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 8:29 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Chapter Headings
Question, is it imperative that i change the font on chapter headings and
how do i know if it needs to be done? Using word with braille display. Have
no vision at all. Thanks for any help!
Reggie
-----Original Message-----
From: Grace Pires <silvara@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 9:59 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Chapter Headings
Hi Everyone:
I was reviewing the proof reading manual and it says that it's not necessary
to protect chapter headings with page numbers? Is this correct? Just want to
be clear.
In the past I put astarecks if the page number was at the bottom.
Thanks.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob W
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 2:26 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Chapter Headings
Thinking back, I believe you are right Mike. And your solution is the best.
If you will send me the name of a book you've done this with, I'll check it
out and let you know the results.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 7:07 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Chapter Headings
> Some time ago, when the use of font size for indicating navigation
> points was started, I asked a similar question. What happens when you
> change the
> font for two lines of text with no blank lines between them? In my
> case, the chapter title was two lines long. The answer I got was that
> if two lines without blank lines between them have the same font then
> bold and change the font size to say 16 for both lines, the bookshare
> software will
> make that into one navigation point. So, if you had a line with
> "Chapter 1" and after it a line with "First chapter title" and you
> bold and raise the font size to 16, the reader should be able to
> navigate by a line that says "Chapter 1 First chapter title." So, that is
what I have been doing.
> Unfortunately, I am not a member, so I cant' check if that's how my
> submissions actually turn out.
>
> Misha
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Martha Rafter <mailto:mlhr@xxxxxxx>
>> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, January 13, 2011 7:08 PM
>> *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Chapter Headings
>>
>> Hi Gang,
>>
>> I have a question about the chapter and chapter names on the book
>> I'm working on right now.For each chapter, there is a line such as
>> "Chapter one," and then 2 lines later there is a chapter name such
>> as "Loving The Living God."Is this second line considered a
>> chapter subheading or is it part of the chapter heading?I'm
>> confused as to whether it should be in 14 or 16 point.Thanks!
>>
>> Marty R
>>
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>>
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