Hi Monica, Actually, bookshare's tools get rid of extra paragraph marks only when they come two in a row. Those inserted when line endings are respected are not removed. This can cause some readers to pause in reading the text where there should not be pauses. That is why I take the time to remove the ones that come in the middle of paragraphs breaking up sentences between lines. Just what I do though. Bookshare has no requirement that we remove those paragraph marks that shouldn't be there. Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica Willyard Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 8:53 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Which software is best for proofreading? Julia, keeping layout information turned on in Kurzweil is a good thing. It can help you if you ever want to use summary mode or understand how pages of content from a book are laid out. In most cases, Kurzweil does insert paragraph marks where they should be. Speech reads them as a new line in the text. It has no affect on paragraph marks in your books. most of us can't see your paragraph marks, and Bookshare removes extra ones from your rtf file to make the daisy and Braille files. Unless your files are one big run-on sentence spanning the whole 200 pages of a book, or if you have a book with only two words on each line, don't worry about it. If you know you're going to have a sighted proofreader, you can take the time to remove extra paragraph markers yourself. Otherwise, I don't do it because Bookshare does it automatically. Why spend 20 to 30 minutes doing something Bookshare will do in a matter of seconds? I see that as wasting time I could be spending on scanning another book. Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julia Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 11:16 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Which software is best for proofreading? Oh no! Don't tell me all of my books are messed up now! I scanned with page layout info retained, is that a problem? Does that mean that they're now chalk full of paragraph marks! How on earth do I fix all those! Julia To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 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. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 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.