[bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles & page numbers
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 18:40:53 -0700 (PDT)
Ever since Lissi said that reading and finding things were easier when the page
numbers are at the top of the page, I've been moving them there if they aren't
there already. Also, as you have assumed, someone said that having the page
numbers at the top of the page does protect chapter titles, so one doesn't have
to add anything--at least that's my remembrance.
It doesn't take but a second or two to delete the page number at the bottom of
the page, add a space, then a space and number and another space at the top of
the next page--at least when I'm working in word and reading the book anyway.
Sometimes, though, I get so engrossed in what I'm reading that I forget, or put
the same number twice, or if there isn't a page break, make one. That's why
when I've finished I do both a final spell-check, to catch things that maybe my
eyes missed, and a final page-number check. grn
G.Cindy
--- On Fri, 5/2/08, Mike <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mike <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, May 2, 2008, 6:22 PM
> Well, at least this episode clearly answers one question.
>
> If the submitted book has all its headers perfect (as I
> know this one
> did since I validated it), and the page numbers are at the
> bottom of the
> page, you still need to put something before the pages with
> the actual
> section or story titles or they will be stripped along with
> the other
> headers. From something Jake said a while ago, I was
> hoping this would
> only be true if the actual chapter title began with the
> word chapter and
> the page numbers were at the top of the page, normally, but
> at the
> bottom of the pages that begin sections. In this book all
> page numbers
> were at the bottom of the page (they didn't scan as
> perfectly as the
> headers, so I had to fix a few of them).
>
> So, we can strip the headers, even if they are scanned
> perfectly, or we
> can move all page numbers to the top of the page, or we can
> put
> something like this on the pages with section headings.
>
> page break
> blank line
> junk text
> blank line
> Section title
> blank line
> page text
> blank line
> page number
> blank line
> page break
>
> and so on, to prevent section titles from being gobbled up
> by the stripper.
>
> In all previous books I verified, I stripped the headers
> because some of
> them were garbled and it is easier to delete them than fix
> the
> garbling. Some I moved all the page numbers to the top of
> the page, but
> that's pretty tedious.
>
> Oh, and I'm not sure how many of the volumes in this
> collection are in
> bookshare, but they would have been validated by someone
> else, so I
> don't know if they would have the story titles or not.
>
> Misha
>
>
> Bob wrote:
> > I have just downloaded "
> > Thunder and Roses: The Complete Stories of Theodore
> Sturgeon, Volume
> > 4" listed in the new books section of the
> website.
> >
> >
> >
> > It's a great scan and validation: except for one
> minor problem. The
> > story titles are missing from the text.
> >
> >
> >
> > Perhaps I'm wrong, but I think the story titles
> are somewhat important
> > in a collection of short stories, unless you are
> willing to read the
> > book from cover to cover, or don't mind having
> your point of view
> > wrenched drastically from one
> point-of-view/character/setting to
> > another one without warning.
> >
> >
> >
> > I think I can fix the problem fairly easily, as long
> as the page
> > numbers in the book correspond to the page numbers in
> the table of
> > contents. What do I do then? I will wind up with a
> .kes file that can
> > be converted to an .rtf file. Can I get my amended
> version put back
> > into the collection?
> >
> >
> >
> > I presume there are at least three previous books in
> this series. Are
> > they also missing story titles?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> >
> > "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
> > committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is
> > the only thing that ever has."--Margaret Mead
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