[bksvol-discuss] Re: chapter headings revisited
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:09:49 -0800 (PST)
Ssarah, did you submit it as a KES file or were you
able to convert it to rtf before submission? I've
validated rtf books that look like that but they're
easy to fix when I'm validating. The one book that
almost drove me crazy, though, was 100 Women Who
Changed World History. It had 3 pages of Table of
Contents with two columns on each page. For one of the
pages I had to make the font smaller than the other
two in order to keep it on one page. And making those
pages correct was tedious. The rest of the book was
very intersting, though.
Cindy
--- Sarah Van Oosterwijck
<curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I really hate looking at books I have submitted
> after they are put in the
> collection. they always look better when I have
> just finished with them. I
> just looked at Swallows and Amazons for instance.
> In my KES copy of the
> book I can set user defined page numbers and
> actually use the table of
> contents. Of course that isn't very important in a
> children's fiction book,
> but this is only for an example. If I open the
> daisy version and set page 1
> to user defined page 1 and then try to use the table
> of contents it doesn't
> work at all, so page breaks and numbering is totally
> messed up. The headers
> are stripped, so the page numbers are also gone. I
> noticed that the page
> numbers in the table of contents are squashed
> against the chapter titles,
> which makes reading them disgusting. In my KES copy
> there is a tab after
> the chapter title and before the page number.
> When I look through the book to find the beginning
> of chapters I notice
> that the chapter number and title are squashed
> against the text, which looks
> sloppy in my opinion. I don't know if that was done
> automatically or by the
> validator. I had carefully put in extra headers to
> protect my chapter
> numbers and titles, and that was my initial reason
> for looking at the book.
> Now i don't know if that actually would work or not.
> I guess we really only know how everything works, or
> doesn't work, if we
> scan and validate ourselves and then check the final
> result.
> I really wouldn't like to use a text book messed up
> this way, so I might
> still scan it myself if I could instead of gettting
> it from bookshare.
> Being able to find one's place is just too
> important.
> I am extremely unlikely to reread something I have
> scanned, so I am unlikely
> to find out what else might have happened to it.
>
> If it were up to me I would get rid of the header
> stripper not the headers
> in books. I don't know what would solve the other
> problems.
>
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/
>
>
>
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