Well, Sarah, (smile) I have read both fiction and
nonfiction books, both for school and for pleasure
--cookbooks, too, when I was raising my family and
had to cook -- and never did I use headers. I forget
that they are there. Page numbers, yes -- very
important-- and chapter titles, and tables of
contents, and indices.
I've just noticed that the Large Print book I'm
validating does not have headers (it is fiction), and,
or course, children's books, at least the ones that
are primarily pictures, don't either.
However, I am glad to learn that they do have a
function, and in the future (when I've finished the
books I'm working on) I will leave chapter headers and
make sure they are not garbled. I supposed that
especially if the chapter title is deleted the headers
are particularly important.
Cindy
--- Sarah Van Oosterwijck
<curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Please don't forget to save a copy of your file with
the headers in tact
before you try subjecting it to the Kurzweil
stripping process.
I don't really want to delete headers either, but
people were so violently
opposed to them that i started to delete headers
from my own submitions,
because i felt i could do a cleaner job of it than
the stripper. I did
leave the page numbers, though. The headers have no
point in fiction with
only book title and author repeated, but in a book
you might not read all
the way through, they are valuable. I suspect the
people violently opposed
to them have never read a print or electronic
non-fiction book in their
lives, and therefore don't know why the rest of us
want the headers so
badly. :-)
I'd like to force all of them to read select and
scattered parts of a book
with page numbers that are actually chapter and
section numbers instead.
For example a book that has pages labeled like
2.3.1. Then they could tell
me what their opinion of retaining headers is. <evil
grin>
Oh, and after that they can pretend they are in a
literature class and must
read certain pages assigned from the book on certain
days. The stories are
not extremely short, but there are several in the
book. The page numbering
starts again for every story. These are actual
examples, not just weird
ideas I have invented. I can't give titles of books
like these, but I know
they exist.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 2:49 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: sorry, one more header
thing
> Charlene
>
> if you have taken great pains to protect headers
and feel you can get
> them
> past the stripper, I'd include a note in the
comments field requesting
> the
> validator leave them in tact.
> A good test to see whether or not those headers
can withstand a stripping
> assault might be to subject them to the utility
for that purpose in
> K1000.
>
>
>
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