[bksvol-discuss] Re: So what did we decide?
- From: socly@xxxxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:23:40 -0500
I'm not sure, Sarah, whether bookshare requires hard page breaks or the spacing
between page
breaks will do. I think it's the page numbers that are the important thing, but
I guess we'll have to
wait for what Marissa finds out. In the meantime I'll stick to rtfs.
Cindy
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From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: So what did we decide?
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:04:17 -0600
>
> Cindy, That was a good idea before, but won't really help now that page
> breaks are required. You don't need to change the font to eliminate page
> breaks in text files especially, since none of that is retained. In RTF
> files it would be a good idea to set the page length to something like 15
> inches or something impossible to prevent the problem you wrote about.
>
> I'll try to be interested in a text file for my next validation, so I can
> help to get rid of some of the problem books. Can anyone suggest some
> interesting text files that need help? Please, no fair quality romances. I
> won't touch those.
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
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>
>
> > Shannon,
> >
> > What I've done with the two or three txt books I've validated recently is
> leave a line space before and after the page number, so it stands alone. And
> I've put a note in the long synopsis that the page numbers appear at the top
> or the bottom of the page, depending on where they were in the book, of
> course. In one case the headings had been retained so it was easy to see
> where the page numbers belonged. I didn't bother putting in a hard break
> because when I saved and then reopened to work again the hard break was
> gone.
> >
> > What I didn't do, at least in one book, and probably should have, was
> change the font to eliminate the natural breaks that were created. I think I
> did do that in the others when I realized I could.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
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