[bksvol-discuss] Re: The down side of this page break thing
- From: socly@xxxxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:30:13 -0500
Dave, what are the titles of the books? Maybe I'll add them to my list of
things to do, if they're something I don't mind reading and I can get them from
the library. I don't mind putting in page breaks as I'm reading -- and
sometimes the size of the font and the paragraphing has to be changed to make
the scanned page agree with the book's page. A long time ago people said they
preferred when lines were skipped between paragraphs, but, especially in books
where there is a lot of dialogue, that doesn't work; in order to agree with the
book's page, the paragraphs have to be indented. Also, sometimes the scanned
book has too wide margins and that throws the pagination off. I can change the
margins and the font to make the scanned book agree with the book itself.
However,I'm not brave enough to tackle another book like the Social and
Cultural History of Medieval Italy (grin) --though it was interesting to a
point.
Cindy
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From: talmage@xxxxxxxxxx
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The down side of this page break thing
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:37:39 -0500
>
> Hi Paula,
>
> In the last week I've released 4 RTF books because page breaks weren't in
> the right spot, and I've been working on a fifth for a few weeks. The one
> I am working on is already in the library, and this one is an improved copy
> of that one, so I haven't felt pressed to get it back in quick. I have to
> say though, that I won't put page breaks in manually again. If I had the
> book it would have been quicker to scan it over, but I didn't come to that
> conclusion until after I put too much time into the book to want to give up
> on it.
> I suspect what is happening with these RTF books is that page breaks are
> being inadvertently cleaned out with the headers, and then the Word
> Processing Software, or whatever is used to edit the book, is coming back
> and putting in page breaks when it reaches the end of its page
> setting. With the books I released, the fact that someone took the time to
> strip the headers, but left the page numbers makes it a more time consuming
> task to find where the breaks should really go.
> It's a shame that someone put so much time into these books, and got quite
> good scans, but I don't think I'll ever touch another one for validation as
> it even makes it extremely difficult to make sure all the pages are present.
> I don't think there is an easy solution here, other than for submitters
> being careful when they are stripping headers.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> At 05:52 AM 11/12/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi guys,
> >
> >I've kept quiet thus far regarding this page break thing because, hey, I'm
> >fairly new around here. I understand about high standards and all that.
> >However, I just downloaded a book to validate since I have today off and
> >figured I hadn't done one in a while. In terms of scanning, the book was
> >beautiful; hardly any errors. However, even though it was an RTF file, I
> >could not find page breaks, and when I opened it up in Word and then with
> >Open Book, the page count shown was only something like 80 something pages.
> >That doesn't sound at all right for a book.
> >
> >Not wanting to sit there going line by line through the book in order to
> >insert manual page breaks, I had no choice but to release what probably
> >would have been a perfectly readable book.
> >
> >Possibly, there is some solution to this problem that I am not aware of.
> >Otherwise, I fear our overly high standards may rob us of much pleasurable
> >reading matter. People may become intimidated because of not knowing how to
> >make their scans perfect, and validators may not wish to spend their whole
> >life going through each submission line by line.
> >
> >Am I missing something here? Are there things we can do to fix this problem
> >in a global manner?
> >
> >Paula
>
>
>
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