Bob, I do exactly that - just put the page number of the pages where a story or chapter begins at the top of the page, and leave the rest of the page numbers at the bottom. And then I take out my little effigy of the stripper program, and stick pins into it.
Judy s. Bob wrote:
You are probably right Mayrie.Could I just put the page number of the pages where a story begins at the top of the page?Frankly, each of these books have about 400 pages, and I refuse to manually move numbers from the bottom of the page to the top just to satisfy a computer program. I can't think of anything more tortuous than forcing someone to do that: this is probably in the same league with water boarding. (But I won't discuss whether that's torture or not.)Anyway, I absolutely refuse to do that. Anyone else who wants to manually move about 1200 numbers from the bottom of the page to the top can be my guest. I think I'd rather grow a beard.Now, if I can only put the page number at the top of pages on which a story begins, I'd be willing to do that, though it would be time consuming.Bob (back to being a curmudgeon.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 2:44 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titlesHi Carrie, Bob, and Everyone,Hasn't it been agreed upon long ago that simply placing the page number, separated by a blank line, above the chapter heading or story title will protect the chapter heading or story title and keep it from being stripped? I thought this was the agreed upon reliable practice.Peace, Mayrie At 11:02 PM 5/15/2008, you wrote:Hi Bob,I hate to say this, but I checked the first Sturgeon book, saw the several blank lines before each story title, approved the book, downloaded the DAISY version, and the story titles are gone. This is just flat wrong. I'll talk to Engineering about it tomorrow. I'll leave the other Sturgeon books in the approval queue until this gets sorted out.Sorry! It will get fixed, sooner or later (hopefully sooner!) Carrie ----- Original Message ---- From: Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: bookshare volunteer discussion <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:03:07 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titlesI just wanted to give you kind folks a follow-up on the missing story titlesin the Theodore Sturgeon collections.Originally, I noticed that just about all the titles of the stories in oneof these collections was missing. My first thought was to blame thevalidator for not noticing this obvious error and fixing it. It turned outthat Misha was the hapless recipient of my anger, and I know that he's acareful validator and wouldn't let something like that go. So then I thought of the scannor, which was Carrie. Carrie is also an excellent scannor and wouldn't let something like that get by. I was beginning to think of thingslike divine intervention and demon posession.I asked Carrie to send me the original document which was submitted by the validator, which she did, and "ah ha!" those ppesky titles were in place. In fact, they seemed to be grinning up at me as if to say... but, I digress.It turns out that the infamous stripper was doing the dirty to this collection.A short check of the bookshare collection shows that there are three other collections of Mr. Sturgeon's stories missing story titles in the booksharecollection.I have just uploaded those three books with, I hope, story titles in tact.It turns out thatthe solution is quite simple: I simply put a paragraph mark before and after all page breaks, and that damned stripper is fooled into leaving my titlesalone. Just wanted to give a follow-up to this pesky problem. Bob "Strippers belong in bars, not libraries."--Author unknown. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis Delzer" <<mailto:curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>curtis@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <<mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 10:34 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles> hmm, makes me wonder if the "stripper," should be used at all? Aren't > we> sophisticated enough by this time to handle the vagaries of what is > needed? > Or, maybe not? > > Curtis Delzer > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Devorah Greenstein" <<mailto:DGreenstein@xxxxxxx>DGreenstein@xxxxxxx>> To: <<mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>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. 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