[bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Breaks

  • From: Pam Quinn <quinns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:17:28 -0600

I agree. Also, if these changes are going to become policy, there
needs to be clearly stated guidelines stating what bookshare wants on
the homepage for validators and submitters alike, because especially
casual submitters are going to get discouraged pretty fast if they
scan books only to have them rejected because they weren't familiar
with the guidelines. 
I am really interested to see how page breaks are determined at
Bookshare, since so many of you aren't seeing them in text files.
Because in my submissions at least, I promise you, they're there.

Pam



>Bravo!  I can validate RTF files as well as text, but we are gooing to lose
>a lot of good volunteers, both as validaters and scanners, if Dave's idea is
>not implemented.  I have just been reading where people are saying they will
>not scan, or will not validate text files any more.
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>Sue
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 6:36 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Breaks
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>Hi Marissa,
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>Since many, if not most, of these problems associated with TXT files and
>page breaks are the product of the software package used in editing the TXT
>file, and because there is a clear majority of validaters that are
>comfortable with RTF files, why don't you recommend to the powers-that-be
>that all TXT submissions be immediately run through a TXT to RTF converter
>at the Bookshare end so that there are no more TXT files to download for
>validation.
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>Dave
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>At 07:41 PM 11/8/2004, you wrote:
>>If I can just reiterate for a second, "THERE ARE NO PLANS IN
>>BOOKSHARE.ORG'S FUTURE TO STOP ACCEPTING TEXT FILES!"
>>
>>In other words, please relax.
>>
>>You can keep on submitting your text files, it's ok. . .just make sure the
>>page breaks are intact.
>>
>>This page break issue is mostly an isolated incident, I find that most
>>books include page breaks. Would it help if we included some tips about
>>retaining page breaks in different document formats that can be either
>>downloaded from the volunteer page or submitted to the general list or
>both?
>>
>>Marissa
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Louise
>>Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 4:27 PM
>>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Breaks
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>>I submit my books in txt format because I'm on a dialup connection and a
>>book in rtf format is much larger than in txt format and would take a long
>>time to upload/download so if txt books are no longer going to be allowed,
>>then I guess I'll not submit any more books and eventually read the 900
>>plus books I've already scanned for my own pleasure!
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: <mailto:curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Sarah Van Oosterwijck
>>To: <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 1:36 PM
>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Breaks
>>
>>Will bookshare soon not accept txt files?  I ask this because many
>>programs don't deal with pagebreaks in text files properly even though txt
>>files are usually capable of holding page breaks.
>>I also wonder if a validator can introduce artificial page breaks that did
>>not exist in the original just to make files that are in perfect condition
>>other than missing page breaks acceptable, or must the pagebreaks be where
>>they would be if the original submitter had kept the pagebreaks cause by
>>actual print page size?
>>Thanks for the clarification the the issue.
>>
>>Sarah Van Oosterwijck
>><http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity>http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
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