From: Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
To: "bookshare volunteer discussion" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008, 10:03 PM
I just wanted to give you kind folks a follow-up on the
missing story titles
in the Theodore Sturgeon collections.
Originally, I noticed that just about all the titles of the
stories in one
of these collections was missing. My first thought was to
blame the
validator for not noticing this obvious error and fixing
it. It turned out
that Misha was the hapless recipient of my anger, and I
know that he's a
careful validator and wouldn't let something like that
go. So then I thought
of the scannor, which was Carrie. Carrie is also an
excellent scannor and
wouldn't let something like that get by. I was
beginning to think of things
like divine intervention and demon posession.
I asked Carrie to send me the original document which was
submitted by the
validator, which she did, and "ah ha!" those
ppesky titles were in place. In
fact, they seemed to be grinning up at me as if to say...
but, I digress.
It turns out that the infamous stripper was doing the dirty
to this
collection.
A short check of the bookshare collection shows that there
are three other
collections of Mr. Sturgeon's stories missing story
titles in the bookshare
collection.
I have just uploaded those three books with, I hope, story
titles in tact.
It turns out that
the solution is quite simple: I simply put a paragraph mark
before and after
all page breaks, and that damned stripper is fooled into
leaving my titles
alone.
Just wanted to give a follow-up to this pesky problem.
Bob
"Strippers belong in bars, not
libraries."--Author unknown.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 10:34 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
> hmm, makes me wonder if the "stripper,"
should be used at all? Aren't we
> sophisticated enough by this time to handle the
vagaries of what is
> needed?
> Or, maybe not?
>
> Curtis Delzer
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Devorah Greenstein"
<DGreenstein@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 8:31 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
>
>
> Ouch ouch. Like Bob, I am more confused now. Plus I
don't have the
> benefit of ever experiencing what these books are like
after I validate
> them because I'm sighted. So it's like
dropping many hours of work into
> a black hole and hoping for the best. And I, like many
of you guys, am a
> perfectionist. So I go over every word, check
spellings in weird foreign
> names, check everything, make it as perfect as I can,
and upload it.
>
> But then what is happening to my work?
>
> I always do the wonderful ^p^m^p thing so that there
are blank lines on
> either side of the page breaks. But I have NOT been
re-typing each page
> number on the top of a page if the page numbers are at
the bottom.
>
> I have left page numbers at the bottom of the page. Am
I now correct in
> my understanding that they all get wiped out? Even if
there is a blank
> line between the page number and the following page
break?
>
> I do put a page number on the top of the first page of
a chapter. It
> just makes sense to do that. But is it mandatory put
all other page
> numbers at the top of each page?
>
> If the mysterious stripper is so smart can't it
tell numeric characters
> from alphabetic characters and leave numeric page
numbers at the bottom
> of the page?
>
> Devorah
>
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