[bksvol-discuss] Re: Chapter Headings

  • From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:33:52 -0800

Good question, Reggie, wouldn't that mean if you have italic type, bold
type, if something is underlined, if there are any bits of text that
have superscripts or subscripts, etc.? Regards, Kim Friedman.

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Regina
Alvarado
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:06 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Chapter Headings


Thank you so much Mary for such a detailed instruction.  I have finished
a book that I was planning to upload.  If I check the first chapter and
Chapter Heading, will the rest be the same or must I go back through the
book?  Reread the volunteer guide some short months back, but so much is
rather over my head as I have no experience with print books, and I am
no user of Word but only to proof.  Since aI am showing ignorance, what
is an attribute? 
Reggie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mayrie ReNae
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 3:51 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Chapter Headings

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.

 

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of regina
alvarado
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 12:04 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
>>
>>     Proud Volunteer with
>>
>>     http://www.bookshare.org
>>
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