Different software is not needed. It is only necessary for people to leave
in the page numbers when submitting a book, so a validator is able to
confirm that page breaks and page numbers occur as matched pairs.
Submitters also need to set their software for two page scanning when they
are scanning books by laying the whole book flat on the scanner. Scanning
software does not ordinarily leave out page breaks, and it has already been
determined that the bookshare tools recognize section breaks, like those
used by Fine Engine, as page breaks. They can be changed for a validators
convenience to page breaks, but leaving them would be fine as far as
bookshare is concerned. As Gerald pointed out, they are not the same as
soft page breaks, which don't exist at all in the saved file. They are only
a product of your Word processor's imagination, or it's printer margin
settings if you prefer the technical explanation. :-)
Page break loss is usually caused by someone saving the scanned book in TXT
format, but it does seem to occasionally happen for some other reason that
no one has been able to explain. :-)
More than anything else bookshare seems to need to provide a section of
website for their volunteers. They need to collect resources explaining
how to supply bookshare with high quality scans, and how validators can
insure what they review is acceptable. Currently bookshare only provides a
very short document explaining what is acceptable, but giving no hint about
how to go about checking those things.
I'd be happy to help with that project, but I don't think I am willing to
take the responsibility for explaining standards and techniques on my own.
I could write up some tips and put them on my webpage, but there may be
those that would disagree with what I said. I also don't know how people
would ever know to look there when my page has nothing to do with
bookshare.
I know bookshare doesn't have the time to provide these resources, but they
might at least consider accepting tip pages written by volunteers and be
willing to post them if they find the content of those pages acceptable.
Again, I don't know who to suggest this too, and I am far from the first
person to express these thoughts.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
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