Aha, an English major with good logic skills!
The answer is in what gets defined as "navigation" - a case of being persnickety with prepositions I suppose.
Body text is the goal you navigate to. Everything else is the means you
navigate with.
Five levels but only four for navigation.
Scott Rains
Bookshare Volunteer Coordinator, Interim
________________________________________
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jill O'Connell [jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:39 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sizing
If any book may have only four levels of navigation, why does Bookshare use
five? Am I to assume that if one used 20 for title, 18 for sections, 16 for
chapters and 12 for text body, one could not use 14 for subheadings as this
would be five levels?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Rains" <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:01 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sizing
Hi Susan,
Yes, there are several ways to do this. Within the general rule of 4:2 you
can pick font sizes as long as body text is smaller than 14.
4:2 is shorthand for:
Any book may have only four levels of navigation.
Each level must be separated by at least two points.
Body text must be under 14 points
But since our converters change all files to a standard 20-18-16-14-12
point spread it makes some sense for volunteers to adopt that also
Scott Rains
Bookshare Volunteer Coordinator, Interim
________________________________________
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Susan
[slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 8:45 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Sizing
Hello Everyone,
Hmmm, as with many things it seems there may be several ways of doing
this. When a book has only chapters, I set my body text to 14, chapters to
16 and title to 18. It was my understanding (or lack of it, not sure of
which) that body text should not be set below 14. Any comments would be
appreciated!
Susan, The Happy Proofreader
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.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2883 - Release Date: 05/19/10
06:26:00
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.
