Let me admit that when a book has only chapter numbers without the word chapter I have been leaving it like that. As of now I think I will change my ways and add the word chapter. For right now, though, the book I am currently working on does have the word chapter already present.
On 7/16/2012 12:12 AM, Estelnalissi wrote:
Dear Booksharian friends, Especially those contributing to this thread,I have been proofing books adding the word chapter before the number and or name of the chapter since I was taught to do it last September. I feel proud to be making books easier to manage for braille readers and better for the tools to produce correctly. I wish I could go back and fix the hundreds of books I formatted differently knowing it would make them so much more reader friendly to those who seriously need the navigation help. I wouldn't mess around in the book, but just dip in, format cahapter names as I demonstrated in my last post, enlarge titles to 20, author's names to 18 and make subheads 14. That's it, no meddling. Currently I'm proofreading Bone Idle, one in a series about a newly married cop in England. There are at least 5 more in this series. If anyone is willing to scan them for me to proof, I'll sent you copies of the books he can s----- Original Message ----- *From:* Estelnalissi <mailto:airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *Sent:* Sunday, July 15, 2012 11:58 PM *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: chapters and numbers Dear Cindy and Booksharian Friends, Cindy, I'm not sure I understand your question, but I'd like to mention that I write the word chapter before the chapter number, and when there is a chapter name as well, I format it as follows: Chapter 1: Arriving home I was taught this format by a Bookshare staffer, who also instructed me to put chapter names as above in size 16 font. Before that I was using 14, but changed to 16 when I was instructed to do so. As for letter names on a dictionary page, I'd suggest putting them flush with the left margin. I'm not sure that Bookshare tools would leave them against the right margin anyway. Speaking from a reader with very low vision, if I use my eyes, I can't scan pages or lines. It's hard for my eye to search out a character at the right margin. I can't track empty white spaces. which makes reading tables in print impossible. I naturally work my way down a page from the left margin. I would miss centered titles, too. When I started volunteering, a blind proofer who was an official Bookshare advisor instructed me to left justify a whole book before I began proofing. I realize that aesthetically this is visually boring, but it's much easier for people with a small visual range or whose eyes move constantly, to navigate. Since Bookshare is about adapting books to make them accessible, I think it's encouraged to maximize navigability without changing the actual content of the words. The word chapter before chapter numbers enables those of us with braille displays to navigate by chapter since font size doesn't help our equipment to jump from chapter to chapter. By the way, I just finished "The Lady Vanishes about a dog trainer turned investigator, the third in this series I've read from Bookshare, and am currently reading, "The Dead of Winter," a Louis Kincaid mystery set in Michigan. I proofread every day, but I read Bookshare books in bed on my Braille Note, and during the day when I want to relax. These books are beautifully done, very clean and accurate. I appreciate them tremendously. Always with love, Lissi ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Cindy <mailto:popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *Sent:* Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:38 PM *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: chapters and numbers I'd like to know that, too. I don't think 've ever added the word chapter before a chapter number,although I think, at least in the penultimate book I finished and the one I'm currently working, there are also a chapter titles below the number. I've made them both 16 bold. However, in my recently uploaded dictionary, all I've done is put the alphabet letter in the far right upper corner, in 16 Bold. ** Regg Quick question...if the Chapters of a book are represented simply by the number of the chapters, without actually showing the word "chapter" should we add it? Ex: Should*1* be changed to *Chapter 1* Thanks. Laura
