I'm using OpenBook 7. But as far as relying on a computer program: Having
written some computer programs myself, I know that they cannot be completely
relied upon. That's why the books have to be checked by a word processor
and validated.
The book I downloaded for validation did have some tabs in it, but I didn't
look for tabs in the couple of books I scanned and uploaded. However, I
noticed no peculiarities such as things being run together in the ones I
scanned myself, as I did in the one I validated.
I will look for and eliminate them in all future books.
How are you scanning books? I agree with Sarah; rely on your scanning program; that's what it's for.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 11:39 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: paragraph spacing
Is this important for .rtf files. I never thought about it. Doesn't the Braille translator take care of this when it sees a hard return? But if I save books in .rtf files, I get no indenting, but I don't think I get any tabs either. I do bring the books into word to make sure the page breaks are where they should be, since Wordpad doesn't seem to show them, but I didn't look for tabs or try to eliminate them. I used to do this indenting when I had WordPerfect. I would search and replace each hard return tab combination with a hard return tab and two spaces so it would look more natural when I read books on a Braille display. Do I need to do this for the .rtf files I submit or validate? I didn't think about it on the last book I scanned or the last one I validated.
Thanks.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 11:24 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: paragraph spacing
Right. I've found under Formatting that I can set First lines to indent however many spaces I want. The dfault is .5, but I use .3. That eliminates both tabs and the space bar.
By volunteering for bookshare I'm constantly learning more about how to use Word. I wish I'd known some of them sooner so the earlier books I uploaded were better from a formatting point of view.
Cindy
--- Paula and James Muysenberg <outofsightlife@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Someone on this list recently said that tabs are somehow lost in Bookshare's conversion process. If that's the case, it won't work to indent paragraphs with tabs.
Paula
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