[bksvol-discuss] Re: So what did we decide?
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:08:13 -0800 (PST)
I agree, and that seems to be the general consensus. I
don't know why people submit in txt, but maybe
bookshare can find a way to convert all txt to rtf
before putting the book on the download list. The
request,nay rules, I think, has always been for
submissions to be in rtf. It may be that some people
don't have that capability.
Cindy
--- Rui Cabral <rui@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> regarding .txt files.
>
> I ran a test using word 2003 and no it did not
> retain pagebreaks in .txt
> format.
>
> I know k1k retains them and am fairly confident that
> at least the last
> couple of versions of openbook do as well.
>
> Beyond that i can't comment.
> What i would like to know is, what is the compelling
> reason to submit in
> .txt since an rtf is only 20 to 40% bigger depending
> on how much formatting
> is preserved?
>
> Even for someone using a dialup connection, this
> should not present a
> substancial burier to submission and or validation.
>
>
> -- Rui
> Bookshare.org Unofficial Volunteer Scanning Page
> http://members.cox.net/booksharescans
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 1:13 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: So what did we decide?
>
>
> > The problem, Rui, seems to be that the hard page
> breaks aren't retained in
> txt files. I have no problem putting them in, but
> when I tried putting them
> into a txt file I was validating, when I openedit
> again to work on after
> having saved it, with hard breaks and italics where
> they were supposed to
> be, neither was retained. Have you seen txt files
> with hard page breaks?
> Have you yourself been able to validate one and put
> in hard breaks that are
> retained? Maybe it's just my machine. I have a
> suspicion that, though I'm
> working, or think I'm working, on the txt document,
> the machine might
> automaically be using Word, though it doesn't say so
> --it says plain text.
> If I used something other than Text Only, such as
> Text with Line Breaks or
> MS DOS Text or MS-DOS Text wiht Line Breaks, or
> Unicode Text, would that
> make a difference? I thought when I asked once a
> while ago I was told to use
> the Text Only, but maybe that's the problem. I can't
> remember if I tried any
> of the others recently
> > , although I did the very first time and it
> didn't make a difference --
> but that was when I'd validated in word and
> converted back.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
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