Barbara, I'm not sure from your post and Sarah's reply whether you're validating or submitting, or validating after scanning and before submitting. Like Sarah, though, I'll comment on some of your questions one by one. > 1) should the print page number be on the same line > as the form feed or > on a separate line? I don't know what you're using; Sarah's answer perhaps answers your question here. What I do, using Word, is skip a line from the top of the page, put the page number on the next line, and then skip a line before the text. Since I've never downloaded any of my books, I don't know if this works, but it's what Pratik initially said to do, and I think my favorite guide, Gerald, said that also. If the page number is at the bottom of the page, again follow the above's instruction, I skip a line after the text, put the page number, skip another line and then put the page break. > > 2) What should I do about hyphenated words? This > usually happens if the > last workd on an ink-print page is split between the > current page and the > next page? Will the Bookshare stripper program fix > this or should I fix > the hyphenated words (join them together) before I > submit the book? You should close up hyphenated words, except those that aren't supposed to be hyphenated (e.g. twenty-three) that happen at the end of lines. If they are the last word on a page, it's your choice whether to put the whole word on the last line of the one page or on the first line of the next. I do it manually as I read the book when I'm validating, because I've found that if I do a global replace of the hyphen with nothing, a lot of words that should be hyphenated get closed up and have to be re-hyphenated. > > 3) The present book I'm doing is in text mode > because it's easier for me > to edit it in text mode. The parahraps are not > indented but there is a > blank line between each paragraph. will the braille > translation program > be able to identify the paragraphs? > I don't know about the Braille program, but I asked the list a long time ago and most people, I assume the Braille readers, said they preferred to have lines skipped between paragraphs. It isn't always possible, though. I've found that if there's a lot of dialogue on the page, skipping lines between paragraphs makes the page length longer than it should be, so I've had to indent paragraphs. When I skip lines between paragraphs, I double or triple-space if there's a change in section where the book double spaces, or before and after long quotations or poetry or letters where the book duble-spaces. If you edit in txt you should change to rtf before uploading, especially if you're validating and not submitting. If you're submitting, the validator cabn convert to rtf before approving and uploading. But txt does not retain fonts like italics, and sometimes it loses page breaks. > 5) Are there any written guidelines? if so, where > would I find them? I think Sarah answered this, although I suspect that someone like Jake, who saved the guidelines, will send them to you. Cindy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com