[bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
- From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 10:11:45 -0500
I'm seeing I can'gt type in this message. Oh, well.
Well, I think what happens is people read these again and again
messages that cause confusion. If I don't need to know right now, I
don't read them anymore. <Giggle>
Cindy Lou
Cindy Lou Ray. Each day is a new adventure.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 10:02 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
Hi Cindy!
You're awesome too. The stripper is just a pain. It can
only remove headers if they are exactly uniform, that includes amount
of white space on the line containing headers. I'd vote for doing
away with the stripper altogether, but if I remember and understand
properly, it is necessary for creating the ncx file in the daisy
books which is the part of the file that tells the daisy reader how
to number the pages of a book. My guess is that is why it hasn't
been done away with before now.
I'd be thrilled if the volunteer manual would contain a
section entitled something like "How To Preserve Formatting of Your
Book, Where Possible." This section would include instructions as to
how and why foiling the stripper is desirable.
You're right, things oughtn't be so complicated. But, alas, they are
sometimes. It certainly is frustrating when the same ground has to
be covered again and again, and confusion caused again and again.
Just commiserating.
Peace,
Mayrie
At 06:37 AM 5/3/2008, you wrote:
>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
>
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