You definitely want to leave in the page numbers. Also, you got the blank line, page break, blank line correctly. You want to convert tabs to spaces, because they are removed by the Bookshare processing software, so if the tab is separating items, they will be run together. I don't think the leading and trailing spaces are a critical issue, as extra spaces are removed, if I recall correctly. Although, I always try to get rid of any extra spaces at all, anywhere, just because of my insanely perfectionistic proclivities. <smile>. The leading spaces might be more important than the trailing ones, at least for the Daisy versions if not for the Braille ones, since things might appear in a different place than the publisher intended. But I don't see how anyone would notice trailing spaces.
Evan----- Original Message ----- From: <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 9:04 AMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Validation - Finished Product who self-validate books
Hi, I am not sure why, but I am somewhat confused about the ideal finished product when validating. Specifically, I have the following questions. Are we to do all we can to leave page numbers there or do we need to take them out?Ideally, should we make page breaks look like blank line, page break, blankline?Should we follow the tips and instructions to the letter when possible thatdetail how to remove leading, trailing and extra spaces, tabs, and extra line breaks?I guess it would make me feel better if there was a document or part of one that said something like, if you can, here is a list of the ideal things wewould like to have you to do to a book when you validate it and have that list all in one place so it would be easy to check.I would be glad to write that document if someone feeds me the information.Thanks for everyone's patience. Jim James D Homme, Usability Engineering Highmark Inc. james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx 412-544-8177 "If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you are right." To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput 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.
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