[bksvol-discuss] Re: Need more help, please.
- From: "Bob W" <rwiley45@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:40:53 -0500
Tim. As the folks on this list all know, I love sci fi!
It would really help us if we knew what software you are using to proof read
a book.
Bob
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From: "Melissa Smith" <mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:28 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need more help, please.
Tim,
Mayrie gave an good explanation of things, and what she does is what I
do as well. I believe there are several volunteers who also enjoy Si Fi,
but I am not one of them. smile
Melissa Smith
On 6/30/2011 12:11 PM, Mayrie ReNae wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> Please don't remove any pages. It is very likely that the long
> synopsis comes from the back cover. You said that, didn't you?
> Please label this page [From The Back Cover]. Many times readers like
> to see this upon opening a book so that they can know what they're
> going to read about, much as you might while scanning your own
> personal bookshelves for a book to read, if you're like me, and you
> have scads of books that you have acquired and haven't read yet, but
> forgot exactly what they were about since the time they came into your
> hands.
> I'll give you instructions for standardizing your paragraphing format,
> making all of your lines left justified. Have you standardized the
> font so that all of the body is of one size and font type, and then
> enlarged and bolded the appropriate headings such as title, parts, and
> chapters? If you have already done the enlarging and bolding,
> standardizing the font will get rid of that and I don't want to make
> you go to more work. Let me know if you'd like instructions for
> standardizing the font, usually done before doing anything else to a
> book, and before putting in heading bolding and enlargement so as not
> to have that get messed up by standardizing font after that has been done.
> Oh, I'm so sorry. This is not my most intelligent e-mail ever.
> Please ask questions if you have any, whenever you have them. We're
> all very willing to help you however and whenever we can.
> It's great to have you with us!
> Here's how to make all of your document left-justified:
>
> Standardize paragraph format (this step is for books that do not
> contains tables).
>
> Select all text with a control a (hold down the control key while
> tapping the a key once)
>
> Under your version of Word's paragraph formatting menu, set the
> indents and spacing as follows:
>
> Alignment: left or justified (either choice is acceptable)
>
> Indentation left: zero
>
> Indentation right: zero
>
> First line indent: by: 0.2 (chose a number from 0.2 to 0.5. for best
> results.)
>
> Spacing before paragraphs: zero
>
> Spacing after paragraphs: zero
>
> Line spacing: at least 12 point
>
> Hope that helps!
> Mayrie
>
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> *Sent:* Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:54 AM
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> *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Need more help, please.
>
> Milissa,
>
> On the first scanned page, the long synopsis from the back cover is
> reproduced here (it is also at the end of the back matter). It's
> followed by the short synopsis in the front matter. That is followed
> by other books by the author (page iii). The title and author appear
> on page iv.
>
> Should I delete the first long synopsis? What about the two pages
> before the title page? The copyright and dedication pages follow. No
> ToC in this book. Also, quite a few lines and blocks of lines are
> center or right justified. Will your instructions take care of those?
>
> I do not see any manual line breaks or paragraph marks. After your
> reply, I will execute your very detailed instructions (greatly
> appreciated).
>
> It is a sci-fi book: "Dark Is The Sun" by Phillip Jose Farmer; no
> poetry. I love sci-fi, anybody scanning them (hint)? I also like New
> Age/Metaphysical.
>
> I hope you have a lot of patience with me.
>
> Tim
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