That is correct. You do not have to delete blank lines. You might have to add a few, but you do not have to delete them.
On 9/2/2012 10:04 PM, Lisa Gorden-Cushman wrote:
BlankSo I don't have to delete all the extra blank lines?That takes me a lot of time.*From:*bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Roger Loran Bailey*Sent:* Sunday, September 02, 2012 11:57 AM *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Paragraphs MarksThere is something else I was going to add to this message and forgot. Here it is. The reason those blank lines are added at the top and bottom of the page is to keep the Bookshare tools from stripping out anything that they are not supposed to strip out. Ultimately, though, they will strip out all blank lines whether we have added them or whether they are already there. That is why we use *** to represent a blank line in the print version. Those will be stripped out too, so the stars are there to indicate that a blank line is supposed to be there.On 9/2/2012 2:34 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote: A blank line is actually a paragraph mark. If your screen reader is reading blank line it is reading paragraph marks. It is not necessary to delete any extraneous blank lines. The Bookshare automatic tools do that when the final proofread book is uploaded anyway. Just be sure that there is a blank line where one is supposed to be. Again, the format of a page should be page break, blank line, page number, blank line, text of the page, blank line, page break. If any of those blank lines are doubled, tripled, quadrupled or even more then that is okay. On 9/2/2012 1:16 PM, Dornetta wrote: Hello one more time; How do I get JAWS to say paragraphs marks? And can someone please tell me what they are. LOL This goes back to the book I am proofing. I just "saw" on one of the pages where there is not a blank line after the page numbers and the text is next: blank line page number text And on another page it goes like this: page number blank line blank line blank line (and probably a few more blank lines) text OK question, if I follow the correct format and then delete all of those blank lines, would this "mess up" anything (like paragraphs marks, etc...) I think this is what happened with 2 books that were rejected before, I deleted paragraph marks and other essentials needed. I hope that I made sense in this email, if not please let me know and I'll try explaining again. Netta "Just because you are blind does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder
