[bksvol-discuss] Re: chapter headings revisited
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:43:18 -0600
I converted to RTF before uploading, and I think the page breaks were
slightly messed up at that point, for no good reason that I can imagine.
The tabs disappearing along with headers, page numbers, and blank lines
around chapter numbers all happened after I submitted. Of course I don't
mind the words of headers going but the rest should be left alone.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:09 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: chapter headings revisited
> Ssarah, did you submit it as a KES file or were you
> able to convert it to rtf before submission? I've
> validated rtf books that look like that but they're
> easy to fix when I'm validating. The one book that
> almost drove me crazy, though, was 100 Women Who
> Changed World History. It had 3 pages of Table of
> Contents with two columns on each page. For one of the
> pages I had to make the font smaller than the other
> two in order to keep it on one page. And making those
> pages correct was tedious. The rest of the book was
> very intersting, though.
>
> Cindy
>
> --- Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I really hate looking at books I have submitted
> > after they are put in the
> > collection. they always look better when I have
> > just finished with them. I
> > just looked at Swallows and Amazons for instance.
> > In my KES copy of the
> > book I can set user defined page numbers and
> > actually use the table of
> > contents. Of course that isn't very important in a
> > children's fiction book,
> > but this is only for an example. If I open the
> > daisy version and set page 1
> > to user defined page 1 and then try to use the table
> > of contents it doesn't
> > work at all, so page breaks and numbering is totally
> > messed up. The headers
> > are stripped, so the page numbers are also gone. I
> > noticed that the page
> > numbers in the table of contents are squashed
> > against the chapter titles,
> > which makes reading them disgusting. In my KES copy
> > there is a tab after
> > the chapter title and before the page number.
> > When I look through the book to find the beginning
> > of chapters I notice
> > that the chapter number and title are squashed
> > against the text, which looks
> > sloppy in my opinion. I don't know if that was done
> > automatically or by the
> > validator. I had carefully put in extra headers to
> > protect my chapter
> > numbers and titles, and that was my initial reason
> > for looking at the book.
> > Now i don't know if that actually would work or not.
> > I guess we really only know how everything works, or
> > doesn't work, if we
> > scan and validate ourselves and then check the final
> > result.
> > I really wouldn't like to use a text book messed up
> > this way, so I might
> > still scan it myself if I could instead of gettting
> > it from bookshare.
> > Being able to find one's place is just too
> > important.
> > I am extremely unlikely to reread something I have
> > scanned, so I am unlikely
> > to find out what else might have happened to it.
> >
> > If it were up to me I would get rid of the header
> > stripper not the headers
> > in books. I don't know what would solve the other
> > problems.
> >
> >
> > Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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