[bookshare-discuss] Re: a question about page numbering
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:41:47 -0700 (PDT)
Hmmm. To quote (or misquote) Churchill, "it's a
mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma." (or is
it the other way around?
Cindy
--- Mary Otten <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Cindy,
> You're not suppose to convert a brf file to anything
> if you submit one for validation. Its the other
> exception to the rtf rule besides txt. So you
> shouldn't have seen a converted brf, but who knows?
> Regarding the kurzweil
> files, no, there are no numbers printed in the
> document by Kurzweil products. So whatever those
> numbers were, they were not introduced by Kurzweil.
> When you go from one page to another in K1000, the
> number of
> the page you have moved to is announced. but that is
> the number that K1000 thinks it is. Hence, if you
> start scanning a book with the first page of
> material, say a list of books by the author, then do
> title page, then
> another page or two of preliminary stuff, then a TOC
> and a preface etc, k1000 may tell you that you're on
> page 14, when you haven't arrived at the page
> numbered 1 in the book. But none of that announcing
> by
> K1000 is actual numbers printed in text. So I have
> no idea what those numbers were that you saw.
> Further, if the Roman numberals for the preface
> pages are seen by the scanner, they will appear on
> the print page.
> So K1000 might say page 10 when you turn to that
> page, but at the top of the page, you might see V
> for Roman numberal 5, which is the number that came
> from the book page. To make it possible for people
> to adjust
> what K1000 says when you go to a given page, the
> folks at Kesi introduced the ability for people to
> call a page whatever they want. But that numbering
> by the user affects only what K1000 thinks, not what
> is printed
> on the page, nor the page numbering when the
> document is converted to rtf. Its totally
> transparent to the BookShare system.
>
> mary
>
>
>
>
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