[bksvol-discuss] Re: Paragraphs Marks
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 08:19:01 -0700
Hi Lisa,
You do not need to delete extra blank lines. But if you want to, it's easy
to do with the find and replace dialogue.
Open find and replace by typing control+h
In the find box type ^p^p^p (Caret p caret p caret p)
In the replace box type ^p^p (caret p caret p)
Tab to ok and hit enter.
Repeat the above steps until Word tells you that it has made zero
replacements.
This will diminish all instances of more than one blank line to just one.
Hope that helps.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lisa
Gorden-Cushman
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 7:05 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Paragraphs Marks
So I don't have to delete all the extra blank lines? That takes me a lot of
time.
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[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 Marks
There 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
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