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

  • From: Gmail For Deb <djoutland@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:44:00 -0400

Hello, Judy!

Thanks so much for your help!

Thank you Judy!  Those instructions make perfect sense.  I call these items 
sidebars, but actually, they are the full width of the page, but bordered with 
a box.  Like I said, they aren't a part of the flow of the text, however.  The 
few I've read are the text of guided meditations that are relevant to the 
chapter material.  So even though they aren't physically on the side, 
logically, they are side bars, it seems to me.  If there's a better name, I 
want to know.

Deb Outland
Lexington, Kentucky

> On Jun 26, 2014, at 9:43 PM, "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Deb, Kim's suggestion regarding sidebars is great.  I've done many books 
> with sidebars and I do the following in addition to what Kim said.
> 
> Separate the text of the book from the text of the sidebar by putting three 
> asterisks on a line by themself, one set before the text contained within the 
> sidebar, one set after.  Then, on the line of text where the sidebar begins, 
> put the word Sidebar in as Kim suggests, but put that word inside of square 
> brackets. Also, keep the text that's in the sidebar on the actual page of 
> text where it appears, but it's perfectly reasonable to move where it falls 
> within that page so that it doesn't break up a paragraph.  Sidebars rarely 
> are embedded into the middle of a paragraph in the original printed text. 
> That's why they're called "sidebars" -- they are a column of text or box of 
> text that appears to one side or the other of the normal printed text for a 
> page. smile. The way they get embedded in an OCRed scan is usually an 
> artifact of how OCRing and scanning works.
> 
> Here's an example then of what you want the page to be:
> 
> paragraph of text
> paragraph of text
> ***
> [sidebar:] text from sidebar
> ***
> paragraph of text
> 
> I hope that makes sense. smile.
> 
> In regards to working with the file in .rtf format, that definitely makes 
> sense.  Whatever editor you use (Kurzweil and Microsoft Word are the two that 
> most volunteers use if they are working on a windows system), though, make 
> certain that it retains the page breaks that Omnipage has preserved in your 
> scanned files. Some editors that can work with .rtf files (like Wordpad) 
> strip out the hard page breaks, which you don't want an editor to do.
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