[bksvol-discuss] Re: Ok, I'm confused! What's next?

  • From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:59:45 -0700

Hi Deb, sometimes headers and footers are either the book title and the
author's name. If you see those, you can strip them. If you see a chapter
number or title, then you only want those on the actual first page of a
chapter. Subsequent pages don't need them. I'd also think if the chapter has
sections in them, then you only want a particular section title to occur on
the first page of the section and not on another page which is in the same
section (do you follow me?). With regard to font, you want to make sure you
have a font which is readable for the whole book (Bookshare likes Times New
Roman with titles at 20-point, Parts at 18-point, Chapter titles at
16-point, sub-sections or sections at 14-point, actual body of the whole
text at 12-point, Author's name at 20-point. (With regard to font, the real
consideration is that it be readable so Times New Roman or Arial, or
anything which is really clear to read is important.) Page setup should be
legal or custom size, margins (I'd go for narrow (1.0 or 1.25 all round).
Paragraph setup for the body of the text is generally on the left. I know
what I used to do for paragraphs with regard to proofreading a document and
I can send you my procedure for it, but I think other submitters will be
better at giving you more specific information about what to do about
paragraphs in your text. I hope what I've mentioned so far helps you out.
Regards, Kim Friedman.

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He you scanners and proofers,

I just finished scanning in my first book.  This includes doing ocr on it,
and running through the spelling check that OmniPage provides.  There are
formatting things that seem important to me, but I'm not sure just how to go
about getting things right.  Do I need to change the font and or size of
text from what came out?  There are boxed off sections of text that are like
sidebars, too.  Is there a way to identify them as such?  I've seen several
of you mention headers.  In this case, the headers are the page numbers and
chapter title.  What do I do about that?  I understood that I was supposed
to keep page numbers.  What about margins?  Do I maintain them, or can I
just set a standard margin for the whole book?  What about any center
aligned text I come across?  Finally, I'd like some input on how to insert
the diagram description text.  

All help will be greatly appreciated!  I am sorry for my ignorance, but I'll
learn!

Deb Outland
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