Thanks Judy, this is very clear. In addition to consistency, it also has the advantage of simplicity.
Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:29 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Font sizes for Navigation - the guidelines that will always work
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 pointsAs 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. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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