[bksvol-discuss] Re: Font sizes for Navigation - the guidelines that will always work
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:53:50 -0800
Well put, Judy
And the part bout the font used was interesting and new to me. I have
always changed the font to Times New Roman even when the file I've
downloaded has been in something else (I think, a a matter of fact,
Arial; and I've changed the text to 12 point when it's been in 13
point; so I can leav e the text 13 point as long as I remember to make
the chapter titles 15 point and any subtitles within the chapter, 11
point, I guess.
Thanks.
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Folks, there has been a lot of confusing information regarding this,
> including what Madeleine just posted. That's because it's all guidelines,
> not a standard.
>
> Here's the guideline that's been used for the last several years, posted
> many times by staff, that will always work with the bookshare conversion
> tools and give correct navigation:
>
> Title is bolded and 20 points
> Section headings (if the book has them) are bolded and 18 points
> Chapter headings are bolded and 16 points
> Subsection headings are bolded and 14 points
> Text of book is 12 points.
>
> Regardless of what size fonts are used throughout the book for other
> elements, we have been asked to always put the title in 20 points and
> bolded, and have the text of the book at 12 points.
>
> You can do the rest of the font sizes in the book several other ways as long
> as you do the following:
> 1. The title is 20 points and bolded.
> 2. There is a consistent minimum of two point difference between fonts in
> this hierarchy throughout the book. That's needed for the daisy conversion
> tools to work properly to create navigation points. Also, the difference
> between font sizes should be in even numbers that are divisible by two--
> don't make the text 12 points and make the chapter headings 15 points. It
> just makes life easier.
> 3. The text of the book is always 12 points.
>
> You can have the chapter headings bolded and only 14 points, as long as you
> don't have any subsection headings to worry about, but that is not the
> preferred guideline. The preferred guideline is 16 points for chapter
> headings. But in a book that doesn't have any subsection headings you can
> have the following and still have everything work for daisy conversion:
>
> Title bolded and 20 points
> Chapter headings bolded and 14 points
> Text of book is 12 points
>
> As to the type of font used (Arial, times new roman, tahoma, or whatever) it
> doesn't matter. The files Bookshare creates from the rtf file that's
> submitted change the font type universally to Arial.
>
> I hope this helps make things clearer. smile.
>
> Judy s.
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