[bksvol-discuss] Re: .txt and .rtf
- From: "Louise" <lougou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:37:33 -0600
Cindy, regarding the Ivan Doig books, one of the books I've scanned is
Dancing at the Rascal Fair, but I haven't yet scanned the other one in the
trilogy, which, I believe is called Ride with Me Mariah or something to that
effect.
I am still confused about this page break business and am now even reluctant
to validate other people's scans as about half the books I validated
recently were kicked back to be checked for page breaks! I am becoming
frustrated and discouraged about this page break business and I know of a
few friends who are also Bookshare members who say they won't validate any
more books either because of this page break situation.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:34 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: .txt and .rtf
> Louise,
>
> I may be wrong, but I don't think you have to worry.
> I've validated txt files and rtf files. The first time
> I got dowloaded a txt file I converted it to an rtf
> file. I can't remember if the page breaks converted or
> if I put them in manually as I did the book, but they
> disappeared when I found I had to covert to txt to
> upload. After that, when I did txt files, I just
> spaced to show the page number, i.e., I made a single
> line space before the page number and a double line
> space after the page number if the page number was
> supposed to be at the bottom of the page and ice versa
> if it was at the top (ifI remember correctly). The
> only problem is that sometimes Word put in a page
> break where there shouldn't be one, but I didn't worry
> about that. I think, though, that I solved that
> problem but switching to a smaller font when I was
> ready to upload.
>
> If you can convert to rtf to submit your books, then
> let the validator worry about page breaks if they
> don't appear in the conversion. Or submit them as txt
> if you can't convert to rtf and let the validator
> worry about them. The worst thing that would happen is
> that they'd be rejected, but of course you'd still
> have yours. And the best thing is that they'll be
> accepted and the collection and membership will be
> enriched by your efforts. BTW, is any of them the
> other two books of the Montana series by Ivan Doig? Am
> I correct in remembering that you're the one who read
> the book with Mariah Montana in the title and wanted
> the other two?
>
> Cindy
>
> Cindy
>
>
> --- Louise <lougou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have more than a thousand books that I've
> > scanned in txt format, but
> > won't be able to submit to Bookshare since txt files
> > don't have page breaks.
> > I can't see myself going page by page through all of
> > these books and
> > manually putting in page breaks!! It's my
> > understanding that by going to
> > save as in a txt file and then choosing the rtf
> > format doesn't
> > automatically put in the page breaks. Therefore, I
> > don't know of any quick
> > way of putting the page breaks in txt files.
> > Besides, I don't see why page breaks are so
> > important in books such as
> > romances, mysteries, westerns, etc. I can see their
> > validity in nonfiction
> > books such as textbook or reference books!!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marissa Mika" <Marissa.M@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 11:37 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: .txt and .rtf
> >
> >
> > > Hi Pam,
> > >
> > > The answer is yes if you can maintain the page
> > breaks during your
> > > conversion.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Marissa
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Pam Quinn
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:32 AM
> > > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] .txt and .rtf
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have some books to submit eventually when I get
> > them cleaned up,
> > > that are in .txt format. Would it be preferable to
> > convert them to
> > > .rtf before submitting them?
> > >
> > > Pam
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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