[bksvol-discuss] Re: Techniques For Handling Headers
- From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:21:47 -0700
Monica,
Like you, I remove headers by hand, page by page. I remove them all before
reading the book. It is so boring to do it that way. However, I like to
read through the book without stopping each page to remove those pesky
things.
Also, it does help find missing pages before reading a bulk of the book.
I am currently editing in Open Book but will probably be changing to word
soon and will then be able to incorporate your last step.
The idea of changing from Open Book to Word for editing is very scary for
me, but it's coming!
Cat Lover Lori
----- Original Message -----
From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 6:48 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Techniques For Handling Headers
Hi, Jim. Here is a set of instructions that I recently sent to one of our
members. Maybe it will help you to know how and why I do things. Of
course, each person has their own style, and my way isn't the ultimate,
perfect way. It works well for me.
Page numbers are something I take time to protect. We try to keep page
numbers if they scan well enough to use because people sometimes use
quotes from books in book reports or term papers. The Bookshare
preparation tools also use page numbers to help build the navigation
of daisy books. If you aren't able to do the page numbers on a book, no
one will have a major fit. It's just something we make an effort to do
when we can. Page numbers are not required, and your book will be accepted
without them.
First of all, since I think doing headers is boring work, I make sure to
either load the chat room or turn on some really cheerful music. Once you
get the hang of working with headers, it is a sort of mindless, repetitive
chore that you can do while chatting or doing something else that's fun.
That's how I'm able to do something tedious without losing patience.
I have a reason for doing each page by hand instead of doing a global find
and replace. Going page by page helps me make sure there are no missing
pages and no duplicate pages that were accidentally scanned. I remove
headers by going to the top of a page and selecting the text on that line
except for the page number. So for example, if a page has the author's
name and then the page number, I put my cursor on the page number and
press shift home. Then I hit delete, and that deletes everything on that
line but
the page number. If the page number is the first thing on the line, I put
my cursor on the page number and press shift end to select the rest of the
text
on that line. Then I delete it. Headers usually contain either the
author's name, the book title, or the name of the current chapter. After I
have done
my procedure with headers, I load the rtf file into Microsoft Word and go
to the top of my document by pressing control home. I press control h for
the find and replace dialog box. In the first field I type ^m and in the
second box I type ^p^m^p and then choose replace all. What this does is
puts a blank line above and below each page break. Doing
this makes sure pages work well in the HTML copy of daisy formatted books.
I'm sure Kurzweil has a equivalent for this step, but I don't know what it
is. I just use Word for that last step and save my file. It also neatly
gets around the error message we occasionally get when uploading an rtf
file validated in Kurzweil since saving the document in Word solves that
problem. This is an error that only happens sometimes and is sort of
random. You may not have encountered it at all.
I hope this is helpful to you. If I've said anything that doesn't make
sense, please ask me about it.
Monica Willyard
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