[bookshare-discuss] Re: editing question
- From: "Vic Llanes" <v.llanes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:55:25 -0400
Hi Guido, to carry the issue of headers and footers further, and sorry to
keep harping on this thing, I personally prefer to strip those bothersome
header footers when reading my own, but when validating, and headers aren't
that bad, what is the mandated action? Do we leave them or strip them or
doesn't it matter cause the automated tool at bookshare will take care of
them anyway?
I only ask cause when I'm proof-reading a book, I do a much much better job
without them headers. I can catch more errors between pages and a lot more
etcetera.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guido Corona" <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 9:42 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: editing question
Dilsia, all/most books in the collection have page numbers stripped by
the automated tool. But the archival copy of your submission will
maintain page numbers. The idea is that eventually the Bookshare system
will be able to utilize those absolute page numbers in the Daisy and
Braille rendering of the Book.
You can leave page headers and footers intact, unless of course they are
badly corrupted, in which case you have the choice of either repairing
them or stripping them completely yourself. If headers/footers are too
broken for repair, see if you can maintain just page numbers. If things
are too messed up even to reconstruct page numbers, don't worry about it:
just remove the entire header/footer.
Just keep in mind that the header should be on the very first line of a
page and should be followed by a blank line.
A footer should be on the very last line of a page and should be preceeded
by a blank line.
I have seen some book where the header contains only the author or the
title, while the page number is the only thing in the footer. In this
case headers have no real meaning and can be stripped safely. If your
book has chapter heading at the beginning of each chapter, try to
preserve/repair them.
And remember, if it looks that a book you are validating is too broken
for human consumption and it would take days to fix it, that is because
it probably is. Nuke it and do not feel guilty about it. We have almost
18,000 titles in the collection and we can now afford being a little more
quality conscious than in the past.
Guido
Guido D. Corona
IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
IBM Research,
Phone: (512) 838-9735
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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I have a book which I will submit that has the page numbers in the same
line
as thr author name and book title. Does it means that I will have to put
the
numbers somewhere else to save them from the stripping process??
Very truly your
Dilsia A Martinez Riveraa
Villalba PR
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