[bksvol-discuss] Re: More Questions about proofreading.
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:08:03 -0800
Interesting; all this time I've been replacing section breaks with manual
page breaks; guess i won't bother any more
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Madeleine Linares <Madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Illustrations should be removed. We unfortunately cannot process books
> with images at this time, though it is something we are working towards.
> You should delete them. If any have captions included in the image itself,
> the captions should be retyped and placed in brackets.
>
> Section breaks are fine, and our converter handles them exactly the same
> as page breaks. You do not need to worry about converting them to page
> breaks.
>
> Please let me know if you still have questions about this book. To post to
> the discussion list, simply send an email to
> bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> As for Poet, we are currently not giving out book ID numbers to
> individuals. We're actually restructuring the volunteer process at the
> moment in order to get entire books completed with the highest quality
> image descriptions. Right now we're only working with groups of people, but
> I'll let you know when we've figured how to manage the individual
> volunteers and their work. I apologize that this is taking so long. We are
> working hard to make sure that this new structure is the most productive
> and sustainable, so it is taking some time to hash that out.
>
> Best,
>
> Madeleine
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Siewert [mailto:jesiewert@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 12:41 PM
> To: Madeleine Linares
> Subject: More Questions about proofreading.
>
> Hello again. I hope I'm not seeming too out of touch. I have started
> looking at a book to proof read.
> I decided, since I don't have any pre-ordained preferences, to work on the
> books which have been on the list the longest.
>
> The book I chose was:
>
> Dental Computing and Applications: Advanced Techniques for Clinical
> Dentistry
> By Andriani Daskalaki.
>
> Two items popped out immediately.
>
> First, in general , I noticed, since Word 2003 initially brings the book
> up in Print view, that there are a large number of illustrations, mostly
> drawings and photos in this case. My first question is how do I handle
> these? The drawings don't show in 'normal' mode, but the captions
> generally do.
>
> Second, the book has no page breaks, only various section breaks.
>
> Near the top of the book is this sequence:
> -----------------------
> Section break (Next Page)
>
> 6 lines of text
>
> Column break
>
> Multiple lines of text one letter at a time
>
> Section break (continuous)
>
>
> --------
> If I look at it in print mode, the 6 lines of text is a column and the
> multiple lines of text resolve themselves into a second column aligned with
> the 6 lines.
>
> When I change the section breaks to page breaks and remove the column
> break and try to re-arrange the text from the two columns, I can't save the
> document successfully. Word gives me a warning about breaking up columns
> and the resulting saved document is corrupt.
>
> Does this make the book rejectable?
>
> Should I put this question out the the discussion group? How exactly do I
> do that? I've been getting the digest, but I'm not sure how to submit.
>
> Also, I still do not see anything on the POET website which allows me to
> find books to work on.
>
> Jim Siewert
>
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