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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