[bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing chapter headings
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:56:03 -0700 (PDT)
Monica, I did not know any of tha--but I hanent yet had a chance to read the
latest newsletter. Henceforth I'll but chapter titles in large font--how large?
14 or 16when text is 12?
Cindy
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--- On Sat, 3/28/09, Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing chapter headings
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 8:08 AM
> 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 put
> > chapter headings or story titles in a larger font than
> the normal text, the
> > new 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 new
> > stripper also recognizes the word "chapter" on the
> first line of text and is
> > coded 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 that
> > Openbook 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 of
> > pages or where the first page of a story has no
> number. That's why the
> > ability to recognize a larger font or the word
> "chapter" was put in place. I
> > generally go ahead and number the page in question to
> make sure it's
> > processed correctly since the stripper would just
> number it anyway. If all
> > of 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 a
> > proofreader 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
> >
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