[bksvol-discuss] Re: Finished validating a TXT file havea question
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 18:49:50 -0700 (PDT)
Yes, the book probably should be returned in plain
text. You might try one of the others and see if
bookshare takes it. I was told with an earlier book
that text with line breaks and the others I have
really louse up the formatting.
What I did with the page numbers is put them at the
bottom of the page, leaving a line space before and
after page number, thus letting the page number stand
alone. My book had the numbers at the bottom. I put
them in when they were missing. I also added a comment
to the long synopsis (does your Delinsky book have any
synopses?Mine just said "Romance by known romance
author" or something like that. I put in my own). that
the page numbers were at the bottom. But since you
didn't do that,I wouldn't try to do it now. As you
say, being fiction it probably doesn't matter that
much, and you did be sure, since you read it, that all
the pages are there.
I agree about the challenge of putting fragmented
sentence together. It's like doing a jigsaw puzzle.
The word your spell-check couldn't figure out perhaps
is a fragmented one, or a hyphenated one, that you
missed. I had one of those, too, and I couIdn't figure
it out from the context. I'd already returned the book
to the library, so I couldn't check with the book
itself. I went back to the original file I'd
downloaded and fortunately found the rest of the word.
But one word isn't going to keep your book from being
Excellent.
Cindy
--- shannon work <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cindy,
>
> Yes the delinsky book I validated was in pretty
> rought shape. I took my time
> and put the fragmented piecees back together. There
> were a bunch of junk
> punctuation and extra I's also but I believe I got
> nearly all of them. I
> ran spell check and I did come across a word that
> spell check didn't like
> but for the life of me I couldn't tell what it
> should have been. You can
> tell by context what she id driving at but I don't
> know what the actual word
> is. It mabe on that the spell check just doesn't
> know.
> Now should I just return it in plane text? I have
> the other choices I
> mentioned but I also discussed this that this book
> dosn't have page numbers
> as allot were missing and I got rid of the others. I
> know page numbers are
> important in some cases but since this is only a
> story to be enjoyed not
> necessarly for research I didn't think that they
> were all that important.
> All in all this was a pretty good story as romance
> novels go.
>
> I kind of liked the challenge of peicing the
> fragments back together.
> However I don't want to do that all of the time.
> Smile
> It kind of gave me a mental workout, in Sherlock
> homes type of mental
> calistentics.
> Shannon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 8:35 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Finished validating a
> TXT file havea question
>
>
> > Shannon, I had the same problem the first time I
> > downloaded a txt file for validation and used Word
> to
> > validate it. I didn't know which of the txt
> choices to
> > use. This time, however, when I downloaded
> Delinsky's
> > A Woman Betrayed I noted that it was Plain Text.,
> or
> > Text Only. I kept it in that as I valdiated, i.e.,
> I
> > made the changes in Word but saved each time I
> > finished as txt. I suspect your Delinsky book also
> is
> > Text Only.
> >
> > I wonder if your book was in as vad shape as mine.
> Did
> > you find a lot of fragments of sentences out of
> place?
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> > --- shannon <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello list,
> > > I have just finished validating "The Real Thing"
> by
> > > Barbra Delinsky and it
> > > was a .txt file when I downloaded it.
> > >
> > > I know that I have to return it as a txt file
> but I
> > > have a whole bunch of
> > > choices of txt files. plain txt one with line
> brakes
> > > .... There are bunch of
> > > them to save as in MS office Word 2000.
> > >
> > > Which one should I use? Just the plain one or
> one of
> > > the others. they would
> > > all end in TXT.
> > > Thanks for the help.
> > > I know this took me a long time to do but there
> were
> > > a bunch of scanos and
> > > lines that were chopped up and scattered around
> the
> > > pages. I had to find
> > > them and put them back together.
> > > As soon as I know wich txt to save it as I'll
> submit
> > > it for final aproval.
> > > Thanks again for the help.
> > > Shannon
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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