[bksvol-discuss] Re: formatting question
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:45:58 -0700
Hi Valerie,
Unless the book is poetry, you definitely want to get rid of extra
paragraph marks. Even using only synthesized speech to read, an improper
pause is inserted where those paragraph marks exist that aren't supposed to
be there.
Very often, new people scanning books do not know to turn off the
setting that inserts paragraph marks at the end of each of the lines on the
printed page. I was one of these people who didn't know. I thought, "Oh,
we want the book to look like it did in print, so I should keep the line
endings where they were in the book." I didn't know that each line ending
actually made a new paragraph begin, or that those foreshortened lines were
very awkward for folks using a much wider screen to read.
Kellie taught me about removing those. And I know that lots and lots of
people, blind and not have been grateful that I get rid of those extra
paragraph marks now!
So, long story short, yes, please, do get rid of paragraph marks that don't
happen in the book, unless you are proofreading poetry. In that case, the
only way to keep line endings where they belong in poetry is to have
paragraph marks at the ends of every line.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Valerie Maples
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 7:48 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] formatting question
I am working on a book right now that has needed a lot of formatting work.
One of the things I noticed in trying to remove all the soft page breaks
after determining the pagination that every single line has a paragraph
marker after it. I typically only see that at the end of the paragraph. Is
it okay to remove it or are they simply being used as line breaks? It leads
to a very choppy right margin and peculiar spacing if you use full
justification. It seems it would be better off to remove them so the text
flowed more naturally or could be managed better by people who might magnify
it. I am sure I did not fully describe this and it may be an annoying
question to people who do not utilize visual context for reading, but I find
it very hard to proofread, so I can imagine it would be equally awkward to
read the text in its current format. It most certainly does not actually
resemble the actual book in its current state. Any thoughts?
Thanks as always for your help!
Valerie
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