Hi Valerie,
The proofreading guidelines were updated a while ago and are pretty
comprehensive. Here’s what it says regarding your question:
Protecting Repeated Text in Poetry and Children's Books
1. Sometimes, usually in poetry and children's books, a book's text has the
same phrase repeated. If that phrase is the first sentence or last sentence
on consecutive multiple pages, the Bookshare converter might think it's a
running header or running footer, and remove it from the book.
The easiest way to prevent this is:
a. put three asterisks in a row right above the phrase on every page it
occurs if it's at the top of a page;
b. put three asterisks in a row right after the phrase on every page it
occurs if it's at the bottom of a page.
Be sure to insert spaces between asterisks. (i.e., * * *)
There is also an example given. You can find the manual here:
https://www.bookshare.org/cms/proofreading-home
Deborah
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Children's books with repeated first lines
It’s been a long time since I submitted a children’s book with repetitive text.
The first line of every other page is the same question and I don’t want the
tool to strip it, thinking it is a header. How do we handle the text so the
tool does not remove the repetitive line?
Thanks!
Valerie
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