Dear Cindy, Gerald, Jim, and Everyone, I keep worrying that indentation bone, too.I understand that the tools ignore multiple spaces and tabs, but wonder if they'd put in a single space at the beginning of a line after a hard return.
For example, in a poem where every other line was indented we know it will be double spaced because we have to use a hard return so lines end where they are supposed to. Then, would every other line be a tiny bit indented if it was started with a space?
If we're not sure about this, I can test it out on the next really short children's book I get so the experiment can be quickly done and quickly checked.
Today I uploaded A New History of Wales. It's extremely informative, but I confess it's also pretty dry unless you are really interested in 250 pages of names and dates chronicling 2500 years of pivotal historic episodes.
The Book of Lost Tales, my masterwork to date, is almost ready, but I may be changing the 3 space indents to one space indents depending on the answers I get to this message.
Before Saint Patrick's Day I'll also be uploading Emerald Magic, a terrific collection of new Irish Fantasy stories for adults by various authors including some you'll recognize like Charles De Lint, Andrew Greeley and Tanith Lee.
What are all of you up to? It's fun hearing what's in the pipe lines. Always with love, Lissi----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 8:31 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Preserving Indentation
This has also been a problem with poetry. I learned recently about the tabs and spaces being eliminated, but I thought if I changed margin settings the indentations for certain verses would be retained. Now I find out that that isn't the case--and all these years I've been indenting paragraphs, which people said they preferred to skipping lines between them, and indenting quotations and such, e.g., correspondence and newspaper articles, etc., in books when they appear that way in the print book, and just *very* recently I find out that those aren't retained either? Maybe when they get some more engineers something can be done. Really, all that would have to happen is that tabs be retained. Then indentation of every tupe would be easy. Cindy --- Gerald Hovas <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Jim, Sorry, but Bookshare's books don't preserve indentation. That's probably because they're based on XML, which, like HTML, is designed to specify structure, not formatting. Whatever the reason, tabs are essentially stripped and multiple spaces are treated as a single space. HTH Gerald -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:59 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Preserving Indentation Hi, I just downloaded for validation "Beginning Python," a programming book. Preserving indentation is essential to that language. Is there a way for indentation to be preserved in the approval process, or am I wasting my time making sure all the code in the book at least compiles only to have it ruined? Thanks. Jim James D Homme, Usability Engineering Highmark Inc. james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx 412-544-8177 "If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you are right." To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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