Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks Monica. I assume from your message that "kt" is the stripper's real name, and all this time I thought it was sweetie pie.
Actually, that brings up a question I was trying to formulate and ask to this list: what can volunteers do to enhance the navigational capabilities of books.
I wish there were a sandbox that we could use to run our books through the stripper (uh kt) without sending it to the collection. Then we could see the final result of our books without submitting them first.
Lots of good info here Monica, and lots to think about. Thanks. Bob----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 9:09 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing chapter headings
Bob, we'd be miserable if they took away the stripper. It does a lot of things for us that would make reading even more uncomfortable if we didn't have it. It doesn't only strip headers. Did you all know that if you putchapter headings or story titles in a larger font than the normal text, thenew stripper will recognize them as chapter or story titles and will make them sections that can be navigated in the daisy files? It makes moving by chapter or finding something in the table of contents much easier. The newstripper also recognizes the word "chapter" on the first line of text and iscoded so that it won't strip that line. So you don't have to use a line of asterisks or write the word chapter and then write chapter 1 on the next line. You can just write chapter one on the top line. The stripper removes excessive spaces between words in our books, strips out extra blank lines, numbers pages for daisy navigation, and converts the odd quote marks thatOpenbook makes into standard quotation marks. I agree with Mayrie that it's a pain to work with when you have a book with page numbers at the bottoms ofpages or where the first page of a story has no number. That's why theability to recognize a larger font or the word "chapter" was put in place. Igenerally go ahead and number the page in question to make sure it's processed correctly since the stripper would just number it anyway. If allof our proofreaders were as careful and thorough as Mayrie, Jill, and others we wouldn't really need a stripper. Without Braille access, there's no way aproofreader using speech could remove the extra spaces, lines, and other formatting scannos by hand. Even using Braille, it takes forever. Kt's not perfect, but it's much better than the tool we had before. The staff are open to input too if there is a way to make the stripper better. Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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