[bksvol-discuss] Re: what the daisy tool does
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:56:28 -0700
Hi Robin,
I don't know whether it's obvious. I know I had to be told how to do it.
We're here to help each other, so it's great that you asked.
I am pretty sure that if you don't feel like standardizing the margins, the
conversion tools will do it for you.
In case, like me, you feel more comfortable proofreading a nicely formatted
document, here's what you can do to standardize the margins.
By the way, this works for me using Microsoft Word 2003. The dialogue I'm
talking about might be somewhat different in your version. I'm not familiar
with that version, but you can try this:
Select the entire document by pressing control+a (That's hold down the
control key and press the letter a).
Open the menus by pressing the alt key
Right arrow to "format"
Down arrow here to "paragraph"
Hit enter.
Now you're in a dialogue through which you press the tab key to progress.
Set alignment to left
Outline level, Choose "body text"
Now you have a spinbox for setting the left margin, set it to 0
Another spinbox follows for right, set it also for 0
Now you have "special" down arrow here to "first line"
Tab again and it'll ask by how much to indent the first line of each
paragraph. I like .5 inches. (This makes it easier to see where paragraphs
begin without having to turn on all of the mark-up while proofreading and
the conversion tools will remove the indentation later when converting the
file and this will do absolutely NO harm).
Now you have two boxes labeled "before" and "after" that you want to set at
0 pt.
Spacing should be set to single.
Now tab to okay and you're good to go.
Don't forget to save changes!
If I've forgotten anything, or been unclear, please write again and I'll
happily fix any inaccuracies I might have offered you.
Happy proofreading!
Mayrie
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 1:11 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: what the daisy tool does
Mayrie,
I'm using Word XP to edit books. I imagine there must be a way to unify the
margins, but I haven't found it. Maybe I'mmissing something obvious.
Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:38 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: what the daisy tool does
> Hi Robin,
>
> What software are you using for proofreading? There should be an option
> to
> standardize margins without altering font attributes.
>
> Some of the things that the conversion tool does are to locate page
> numbers,
> and place them at the top of pages, to remove all tabs except when in a
> table, to remove all extra spaces (that is any more than one space
> occuring
> at a time, and to remove blank lines. There may be more, I just can't
> think
> of it at the moment.
>
> Hope some of that helps.
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 7:12 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] what the daisy tool does
>
>
> Hi all,
> Is there a summary somwhere of what all the bookshare tool does when it
> prepares a book?
>
> I was intrigued to read the emails that said it moves pages numbers to the
> top, which is where I try to put them, but my sighted hssband leaves them
> at the bottom of pages if that's where they were in the scanned book.
>
> One thing I'm particularly wondering about today is whether the tool
> cleans
> up the margins. That is, quite often when I put a book into RTF to clean
> it
> up, the left margin changes sometimes. The best way I've found to clean
> that up is to clear formating from that section, but that takes out any
> font formatting, too. So, I've just been leaving it as is, hoping that
> the
> tool cleans it up, but I don't know.
>
> Thanks.
> Robin
>
>
> whether
>
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