Donna, the first line of text will be stripped only if it is followed by a blank line, otherwise it will not. G. Guido D. Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/19/2004 02:03 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Apostrophes and a question Interesting about the apostrophes being used as quotes in the print books. I still find it very irritating to read a book like that, though, as my screen reader wants to read them thus truly breaking up the flow of the book, and I have my set to not read punctuation. I think it's just such an unusual use of an apostrophe, the screen reader doesn't know how to interpret it? Anyway, my question is about blank lines at the top of each page. I know. I should have paid more attention to all those thousands of posts on page numbering. In this book, the page numbers are at the bottom of the page. I stripped out the headers at the top of each page and now there is one blank line before the first line of text. Is that enough to protect the first line of text from the BookShare stripper? Donna, just trying to avoid inappropriate stripping.