[bksvol-discuss] Re: clarifying blank lines after the page break
- From: Allison Hilliker <AllisonH@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 20:12:10 +0000
Hi Netta,
You got several replies to this message, but some of them seemed a little
confusing so I wanted to respond and try to sum up the answers to your
questions.
The best way to solve the blank lines and page break quandary is to do a find
and replace. I do this with control h, but you can pick whichever method is
your favorite. In the find box put ^m and in the replace box put ^p^m^p and
then replace all. That should clear up the page break and blank line issue.
There is no consensus on or Benetech rule about whether or not there needs to
be a blank line between a page number and the page text. The text does need to
be on its own line separate from the line with the page number on it, but you
don't necessarily need an extra blank line between the page number line and the
text. Many proofers prefer to include this blank line, and everyone's opinion
is different, but there is no actual rule about it so
I recommend you do what works best for you.
I've been doing Bookshare proofreading for a long time and My pages tend to
look something like this...
Page break
Blank line
Page number
Text
Blank line
Page break.
I hope this makes sense. Feel free to write more if you have other questions.
Thanks again for all your proofing work!
Allison Hilliker
Bookshare Collection Development Associate
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Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:44 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] clarifying blank lines after the page break
Hey guys;
I am aware that a blank line must follow the page break after the text.
Although I have never done this per-say; I am still curious about how to do
this on a global replace.
Would it be ^m in the find box
then ^p^p^m^p in the replace box?
Someone sent me instructions from Mary on how to insert a blank line before the
page break and I am just wondering if the first ^p puts a blank line on the
next line and the second ^p puts the page break on the next line with the third
^p put a blank line after the page break?
Also please clarify whether or not the page should look like this:
blank line
page number
blank line
chapter heading
blank line
text
blank line
page break
blank line
next page
or....
is the last blank line the beginning of the next page? So that it is like this
blank line
page number
blank line
chapter heading
blank line
text
blank line
page break
next page
blank line
and repeat as above
Hopefully, this is not muffled and easily explained.
Thanks,
Netta
"Until lions tell their tale, the story of the hunt will always glorify the
hunter."-African Proverb
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