[bksvol-discuss] Re: finding soft page breaks
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:52:37 -0500
Dear Jamie, Mayrie and Booksharian Friends,
I wonder if what happens when I encounter page breaks is the same as with other
computer programs as with my Microsoft word 2003. Soft page breaks add to the
count jaws gives me for the book. I would ignore them, but they make it
difficult for me to make sure I have the correct number of relevant pages.
For example, if I have 3 preliminary pages and and have completed page 4 of a
book, JAWS says page 8 after the page brake at the bottom of page 4. If, though
the copyright page was particularly long and contains a soft page break, I'll
hear page 9 read as I cross the page break at the bottom of page 4.
Therefore, if it works, I lengthen pages to eliminate soft breaks, or eliminate
blank lines and make the font smaller to get rid of them, thereby achieving
consistant page numbering, which reassures me I haven't missed any real page
breaks if that makes sense.
In a very long book i'm working on the soft breaks make it sound as if I have
400 extra pages, and hearing a page added alerts me to the fact that the
previous page contained a soft break.
So, soft breaks may not confuse Bookshare paging, but they confuse JAWS and me.
And, although I know Jamie is right that soft breaks are a series of broken
line, maybe like dashes, that line is so thin and pale on my computer that I
don't visually see it, but realize its there because of that added number in
the total count given after each page break.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Mayrie ReNae
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 6:35 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: finding soft page breaks
Hi Jamie!
Thanks for telling me what you see when you pass hard and soft page breaks.
I always like to know how things work for all of us. I didn't know that when
our screen readers say the words "page break" that you're actually seeing those
words. Neat!
Mayrie
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamie Yates, CPhT
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 11:10 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: finding soft page breaks
I meant in, um, print? I didn't mean "say Page break" as in speak page break.
I meant if you look at the screen, the hard page breaks say Page Break right on
the line that goes across the screen. The soft page breaks are just dotted
lines with no words on the line.
Does that make sense? I don't have a screen reader or anything so I don't
know how those work or what they say when they come to soft or hard page
breaks. Cindy is sighted and was the original asker about the soft page breaks.
I didn't think about anyone else wanting to know, sorry.
--
Jamie in Michigan
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