[bksvol-discuss] Re: double column formatting
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:58:38 -0800 (PST)
So, Lissi, are you sayng that as a Braile reader it
would be better not to have two columns on a page but
to have the one column and the pages marked a and b as
you do? I think I did that with one book but I do't
remember which one.
Cindy
--- Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Bookshare Volunteers,
>
> My solution for dealing with indices and pages with
> long double columns is
> to put each column on a new page and to label the
> pages a and b. If page 364
> is a glossary with 2 columns I label the page with
> the first column 364a and
> at the end of that column put in a page break. I
> label the next page 364b
> and then put in the second column flush with the
> left margin as I did the
> first. That way, I don't get overlong pages and
> numerically the pages remain
> true to the text and best of all, I don't have to
> worry about how to format
> the second column. When I've tried putting the 2
> columns in a table,
> navigating as I validate is clumsy because I really
> don't know how to make
> the cursor move between columns.
>
> My solution is as low tech as it gets with Microsoft
> word but it gets me
> through those long academic appendices, letting me
> concentrate on the
> accuracy of the content more than formatting. From
> my point of view as a
> braille Bookshare reader as well as a validator,
> this method is
> uncomplicated, and easy to negotiate in a brf file.
>
> Cindy, if I get caught up enough in my reading and
> validating, I'll let you
> know how your columns appear in the braille file of
> 100 Women who Shaped
> World History, but even if they're scrambled, I'm
> sure the text will be
> terrific and pleasant, informative, reading.
>
> The double columned contents of, The Devil and the
> Giro, which I recently
> finished validating, appeared in a table, and out of
> curiosity, I left it
> that way. I'll be curious to see if the tools
> morphed the table in to some
> different arrangement. There again, if the contents
> are muddled, the stories
> will still be in tact.
>
> I hope any of you who have a different approach for
> formatting double
> columns or who have read books in the collection
> which have them will tell
> us what you do or how the columns look to you as
> braille or audio readers.
>
> Always with love,
>
> Lissi
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:32 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] columns question
>
>
> >
> > I know how to create columns on page using Word.
> Are
> > they retained when bookshare converts the books?
> When
> > viewing the page in Page Layout the page appears
> in
> > two columns, as it should, but only as one long
> column
> > with the continuous section break in the other
> View
> > options.
> >
> > A couple of years ago when I had to create columns
> for
> > a Table of Contents to Fit on a page, and some
> pages,
> > I did it using tabs, so the book must look awful.
> I
> > didn't know tabs got erased. I could redo the book
> > with the columns that the book itself had if
> columns
> > are retained.
> >
> > Has anyone downloaded 100 Women Who Shaped World
> > History from the collection? It's a wonderful
> > reference book for both children and adults. Does
> it
> > need reformatting when I get the chance?
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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