[bksvol-discuss] Re: unique format, any suggestions?

From: "Katie Star" <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:47:53 -0700
Hi Lissi, 

This running together was in the original print copy of the book which I
hadn't run into before. IT wasn't Kurzweil doing it. 



Katie Hill 
Miracles happen not in opposition to Nature, but in opposition to

what we know of Nature.

-St. Augustine

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Dear Katie,

Great description!!! I feel your pain. hahahahaha. I understand the kind of 
jumbles you describe. It sounds as if part of the problem is that the 
margins are right and left justified. A wise computer guru taught me to 
justify the left margin which in my case has been helpful. Hang in there. 
Books are nothing if not surprising.

Always with love,

Lissi

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From: "Katie Star" <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:23 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: unique format, any suggestions?


> HI Lissi and all,
>
> I've been doing some scanning here this weekend. I scanned a book call The
> Wild Island which is a British book. Gees, I thought I had lost my touch 
> on
> scanning.... Well, when I got some sighted help to make some corrections I
> made a big discovery.
> It seems to make all the lines the same link there were a large number of
> lines that had words run together to make them fit and other lines that 
> put
> extra dashes and spaces between the last word of a sentence and the
> punctuation.
> For example: AS I walked down the street I saw a large black cat .
> Or: As iwalkeddownthestareet-I saw a largeblackcat .
>
> The strangest thing I have seen since I started scanning.
>
> Katie Hill
> Miracles happen not in opposition to Nature, but in opposition to
>
> what we know of Nature.
>
> -St. Augustine
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] unique format, any suggestions?
>
> Dear Readers,
>
> I'm validating a memoir with a format I'm not sure how to adapt in an RTF
> file Using Microsoft Word.
>
> Paragraphs are deeply indented, but that's not anything difficult to deal
> with. What's unique is the dialogue. It is always preceeded by a double 
> dash
>
> and indented way far in. This makes the first line of dialogue short and 
> the
>
> second line is more indented than the paragraphs.
>
> It's as if the dialogue is short little paragraphs within paragraphs. Most
> of the time the dialogue is short bursts of only a few words on a single
> line.
>
> If I understand correctly Bookshare tools ignore tabs. Does this mean I
> should indent using the space bar? Will these indents disappear on 
> portable
> braille reading devices? I'm asking so I can avoid too much empty space or
> confusing the reader. The Dashes before each quote are a good indicator, 
> so
> maybe the deep indent isn't needed and I could indent dialogue like any
> paragraph and the double dashes will alert the reader. Oh, and to add to 
> the
>
> mix, there are no quotation marks or apostrophes bracketing the quotes.
>
> I read the author has theater background and the almost centered bursts of
> spoken words remind me a little of some script formats.
>
> To follow the book's print format exactly I'd need to indent 4 spaces for
> paragraphs, 6 spaces for the second and subsequent lines of dialogue and 8
> for the first lines of dialogue.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance. While I wait for your ideas, I have a second book to
> upload in as many days. The last one was only 139 pages long and an easy
> one. I'm making headway on my validation queue.
>
> Always with love,
>
> Lissi.
>
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