Well put, Judy
And the part bout the font used was interesting and new to me. I have
always changed the font to Times New Roman even when the file I've
downloaded has been in something else (I think, a a matter of fact,
Arial; and I've changed the text to 12 point when it's been in 13
point; so I can leav e the text 13 point as long as I remember to make
the chapter titles 15 point and any subtitles within the chapter, 11
point, I guess.
Thanks.
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Folks, there has been a lot of confusing information regarding this,
including what Madeleine just posted. That's because it's all guidelines,
not a standard.
Here's the guideline that's been used for the last several years, posted
many times by staff, that will always work with the bookshare conversion
tools and give correct navigation:
Title is bolded and 20 points
Section headings (if the book has them) are bolded and 18 points
Chapter headings are bolded and 16 points
Subsection headings are bolded and 14 points
Text of book is 12 points.
Regardless of what size fonts are used throughout the book for other
elements, we have been asked to always put the title in 20 points and
bolded, and have the text of the book at 12 points.
You can do the rest of the font sizes in the book several other ways as long
as you do the following:
1. The title is 20 points and bolded.
2. There is a consistent minimum of two point difference between fonts in
this hierarchy throughout the book. That's needed for the daisy conversion
tools to work properly to create navigation points. Also, the difference
between font sizes should be in even numbers that are divisible by two--
don't make the text 12 points and make the chapter headings 15 points. It
just makes life easier.
3. The text of the book is always 12 points.
You can have the chapter headings bolded and only 14 points, as long as you
don't have any subsection headings to worry about, but that is not the
preferred guideline. The preferred guideline is 16 points for chapter
headings. But in a book that doesn't have any subsection headings you can
have the following and still have everything work for daisy conversion:
Title bolded and 20 points
Chapter headings bolded and 14 points
Text of book is 12 points
As to the type of font used (Arial, times new roman, tahoma, or whatever) it
doesn't matter. The files Bookshare creates from the rtf file that's
submitted change the font type universally to Arial.
I hope this helps make things clearer. smile.
Judy s.
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