I follow the same procedure that you describe here. I just put a page number above the chapter title. If the other page numbers are at the bottoms of pages, I tend to just leave them there. I believe it works pretty well to protect the titles at the beginnings of chapters or stories. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 9:37 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles > OK, here's what I'm seeing. I'm seeing boolks with garbage at the top > of each page, page numbers, headers, you name it. I don't think the > stripper is all it's cut out to be. I have not looked at anything I > ever validated; maybe I should. I used to take numbers out at the > bottoms and put them all at the tops, I don't anymore because they are > at the bottom in the print. If the first page of the chapter has the > number at the bottom, then I do take it out and put at the top of the > page if the rest of the pages are that way. If my books are not coming > out right, then maybe I should rethink it, but it has sure caused me a > lot less stress. The book I am validating right now, "The Source", has > blank lines at the top of the pages and then the numbers. I'm leaving > it alone. I don't see where it has to be this difficult. > > Cindy Lou > > Cindy Lou Ray. Each day is a new adventure. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Devorah Greenstein" <DGreenstein@xxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 8:31 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles > > > Ouch ouch. Like Bob, I am more confused now. Plus I don't have the > benefit of ever experiencing what these books are like after I > validate > them because I'm sighted. So it's like dropping many hours of work > into > a black hole and hoping for the best. And I, like many of you guys, am > a > perfectionist. So I go over every word, check spellings in weird > foreign > names, check everything, make it as perfect as I can, and upload it. > > But then what is happening to my work? > > I always do the wonderful ^p^m^p thing so that there are blank lines > on > either side of the page breaks. But I have NOT been re-typing each > page > number on the top of a page if the page numbers are at the bottom. > > I have left page numbers at the bottom of the page. Am I now correct > in > my understanding that they all get wiped out? Even if there is a blank > line between the page number and the following page break? > > I do put a page number on the top of the first page of a chapter. It > just makes sense to do that. But is it mandatory put all other page > numbers at the top of each page? > > If the mysterious stripper is so smart can't it tell numeric > characters > from alphabetic characters and leave numeric page numbers at the > bottom > of the page? > > Devorah > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 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. > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 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. > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 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.