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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