[bksvol-discuss] Re: oh dear, I am more confused

  • From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:41:30 -0700 (PDT)

Devorah,

You can ask any of the members to please download a
book from the collection that you've validated, in
which yo used spaces or tabs and left lines between
paragraphs or whatever, and see if they're still
there.
I don't think the spaces instead of tabs are retained
either, but I hope I'm wrong. There's some Indian or
Chinese philosophy or poetry that I validated several
years ago that I spent a lot of time formatting with
tabs and/or spaces before  knew they weren't
kept--and, in fact, the Kipling, that took months. (It
was a very long book.) It wasn't until after the
Kipling was in the collection and someone downloaded
it that we found that all that formatting was gone.
sigh

The reason I don't want to know is that I still plan
to indent paragraphs and try to place appropriate
things in the middle. Bookshare staff keep saying that
even if such spaces and margins aren't kept now they
might be in the future. But I'm so compulsive I can't
keep myself from not doing that, except when I get
very tired. smile

G.Cindy

--- Devorah  Greenstein <DGreenstein@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> So, let me see if I understand. Prefaces and
> introductions are not core
> content. Tabs disappear. What happens if I type
> "space, space, space,
> space, space" instead of hitting tab. Does that make
> any difference to a
> screen reader? To a Braille file?
> 
> Also, I thought that a hard return was how I
> separate paragraphs, unless
> the scanned book comes to me with an extra blank
> line between
> paragraphs, which I leave alone.
> 
>  
> 
> I think what would help me, as a sighted volunteer,
> would be to type a
> sort of sampler of different techniques, not
> copyrighted material, but a
> text with tabs, spaces, extra lines, no extra lines,
> etc etc., submit
> the sampler for approval, and then get it back from
> Bookshare to see
> what it looks like, what is lost (unlike G. Cindy, I
> do want to know
> what is left and what is removed) and what is
> retained.
> 
>  
> 
> Would that be possible? I find myself more confused
> today. I thought I
> had things sort of figured out. 
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Devorah (in Orlando for a week, having escaped
> yesterday's eight inches
> of snow in Minneapolis)
> 
> 


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