[bksvol-discuss] Re: formatting ASCII text
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 15:19:38 -0700 (PDT)
I don't think it matters if the lines are of different
length, depending on how different. Some people use
the align left and others use the justify.
You can choose to put the whole word on the line with
the first half of the hyhphenated word of the line
with the second. Also, when the hyphenated word is at
the end of the page, you can choose which page to put
the whole word on.
Cindy
--- Gerald Hovas <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I think Tracy's answered most of your questions, but
> let me just add a
> couple of things.
>
> Yes, it would probably be best if you converted to
> RTF. If you're working
> in MS Word, you'll definitely need to convert. Word
> will not save Page
> Breaks when saving as a TXT file. And, as Tracy
> said, Bookshare is no
> longer accepting books without Page Breaks as of
> about a year ago.
>
> The long dash or Em Dash that Tracy mentioned is
> ASCII 151, but it can be
> inserted with Ctrl-Alt-NumPadMinus using Word or
> Insert-4 using JAWS. A
> double hyphen is fine as well, because it translates
> better in the BRF
> books.
>
> HTH
>
> Gerald
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Mike Gorse
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 9:21 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] formatting ASCII text
>
> I'm working on validating "State of the World 2004"
> from the World Watch
> Institute. The book was submitted as a plain ASCII
> text file. It is a
> very good scan OCR-wise, but there are possibly some
> formatting issues,
> and I'm not sure what processing is done after the
> book is validated, so I
> have a few questions.
>
> There were many hyphenated words. I assume that the
> hyphens should be
> taken out, so I removed them and joined the lines
> any time there was a
> hyphen followed by a new line. I now have lines of
> irregular lengths. Is
> this a problem? Should I have instead moved the end
> of the word up or
> moved the whole word down to the next line?
>
> There are page numbers but no other way to discern
> page breaks. Would it
> help to add form feed characters where there should
> be a page break?
>
> There is usually a single dash whether there is a
> compound word or a long
> dash. I've been adding a second dash where I think
> there should be a long
> dash, but is this appropriate? I believe there is a
> Windows ANSI
> character for a long dash, but I don't know what
> character set is assumed
> if a text file is uploaded. Do I need to convert
> the file to an rtf
> instead?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex /
> http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --
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