oh, and thank you Evan -- I just saw your post and will follow your advice
and am Saving your answer to my boOkshare rules file
so the chapter TITLES n this book willALL be ll BE capitalixed, e.g.
CHAPTER OCindy
On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Thank you Roger & Rik and everyone else who responded to me Cindy
On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Rik James <Ohio1803@xxxxx> wrote:
At the risk of being redundant, I want to say, Roger is saying just what
I would like to express, as the chapter titles in the Bookshare collection.
When I read, I very much need, or at least value highly the chapter
headings to have the words chapter and the chapter number.
I do not care much personally, if it is capitalized, bold, or what. But
When I am reading, I want to hear chapter thirteen, twenty-four, or
whatever. It is just so simple and so important.
If only the number is there, or if it only the chapter title like just
text, say, and no mention of the word chapter and the number, I may well
not even know I just entered into the realm of a new chapter. I might just
think it is a sub-heading, you know?
As a volunteer who mostly scans and submits material, I generally will
insert the word chapter , and I will also spell out the number, as was
stated. When I was first starting out I did not do that. But soon enough it
came to my attention how valuable it is, and I made it a part of my routine.
The books in our collection that lack the headings marked this way, they
are just not as easy to know you are in a new chapter.
I think Roger made a good point, that a sighted person can easily discern
this by the formatting and so on. Not so, for the listener, or any other
format, when reading non-visually.
For that matter, while we are on this topic of chapter titles, I would
also love it if the PQ books that came in could be configured with this as
part of the routines as well.
I can’t think that the publishers would object if they were to be made
aware of the advantages cited.
Thanks.
Rik James
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