Hi, Melissa, thanks for your message about making sure the font scale of
the text was standardized. I hadn't done that before. I thought if I had
the body text in normal style and my headings correct, that would be
okay. I've written your procedure down in my BrailleNote so the next
time I start proofreading, I'll check the font scale so characters are
set correctly. There's nothing like having one more trick in the stuff
to do for the file to look great. I suspect if you're a picky submitter,
you might do this sort of thing, but if other folk don't tend to do
this, then I've got another step to check off the list before the
reading. I take it those are the three main things with regard to scale
I need concern myself with. What do I do if I get fields in a file?
Should I get rid of those and how do I go about that? Regards, Kim
Friedman.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Melissa Smith
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 2:09 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: M dashes and fonts
Cindy, below are instructions for standardizing the font, if you aren't
sure about anything just ask again.
6) Standardize the "Font Style" and the "Font Size" of text and
headings Font Style:> all text in the body of the book:
set to Times New Roman
Font Size:
> all text in the body of the book:
- set to 12 point
> all chapter sub headings (if any exist):
- set to 14 point, and
- add bolding
> all chapter headings:
- set to 16 point, and
- add bolding
> all larger section headings (if any exist, such as "Part I" or
"Section A"):
- set to 18 point, and
- add bolding
Then set scale, spacing and position of Font to "normal" by doing the
following.
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 the Font Size of the book Title and Author
On the book's Title page:
> select the text of the Title and:
- set the Font Size to 20 point, and
- add bolding
> select the text of the Author and:
- set the Font Size to 18 point, and
- add bolding
Melissa Smith
On 1/23/2011 3:42 PM, Cindy Ray wrote:
Ugh, I have proofread before, but there are things I should remember.
If I have to do a training book, not sure I will cause I'm not sure I
have the time.
First of all, if the book has m dashes, do we take those out, or do
they translate into double hyphens. Or should they be changed to --.
Second, am I supposed to go through this book and find fonts to
change. Some of these say 11 point, not greater than 14.
Metyhinks these are my only questions about the book.
Cindy
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