[bksvol-discuss] Re: formats (rtf txt) and page breaks
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:08:05 -0500
Hi Cheryl,
TXT files can contain page breaks, but lots of software out there does not
handle them correctly and so they can be lost in the validation stage quite
easily.
This wasn't the only reason why TXT files aren't going to be accepted anymore.
They contain little structural data, for instance they don't contain font
information like bold, itallic and underlining.
As for RTF being promoted because it handles page breaks. That's true, but it's
more because pretty much all editors that handle the format don't muck around
with page breaks, and next to TXT it is the most widely cross platform file
format. You'll notice that ARK, KES, WYN and DOC all get returned to BookShare
in RTF during the validation process. This'll make further book processing more
consistent as well.
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: cheryl fogle
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 8:42 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] formats (rtf txt) and page breaks
Hi,
I've been wondering about formatting in differnt programs. I just rejected a
slew of rtf filews without page breaks and rtf is promoted partly because it
retains pagebreaks, so how are they lost? The books were a series of romances
by Karen Kallmaker submitted by the infamous bookshare volunteer. See Jake's
reject list for titles.
And yet, Amber sent up a txt file with all page breaks present and supposedly
the reason to stop txt submissions is their lack of page breaks. Any thoughts?
Cheryl
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