Don,
As long as your Openbook files have paragraph marks and pagebreaks, the
proofreader can do the formatting. One of their specific jobs is to check
formatting.
Sandi
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Don Elbourne
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 7:44 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page break before paragraph page breaks
Roger,
Thank you so much. I am pretty sure there is no way to change the fonts in
OpenBook.
I would love to just scan from OpenBook and upload it, but I was under the
impression that was very frowned upon. I asked about this back in December in
a thread entitled, " Scanning vs Proofreading." The consensus seemed to be that
if a scanner can't also do a first pass proofreading and format the chapters
with appropriate fonts, title page, and all the rest, then they shouldn't
contribute.
So, I did my best, and failed. The books I scanned have been rejected.
I am looking into getting a different scanning rig, new software, and recruit a
sighted person to do my preliminary proofreading and formatting, so that I can
contribute.
--
by grace alone,
Pastor Don A. Elbourne Jr.
Lakeshore Baptist Church
http://lakeshorebaptist.net
http://rebuildlakeshore.com
On 3/18/2020 1:51 PM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender rogerbailey81 for
DMARC) wrote:
I use Open Book for all of my volunteer activity. It is not good for formatting
or if it is then I don't know how to use it for those purposes. I use whatever
font it uses and if there is a way to change it I don't know what it is and I
rarely even give a thought to what font it is reading in. Because of this I
gave up proofreading a long time ago and confine myself to scanning and
submitting. I let the proofreader worry about all the formatting. Once I finish
with a book I go to the menus and use the save as feature to convert it to RTF
and save it in the my documents folder on my computer. From there I upload it
to Bookshare.
___
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson
On 3/18/2020 7:41 AM, Don Elbourne wrote:
Thanks Judy,
I guess I am going to have to abandon OpenOffice and figure something else out.
Yes, I do use OpenBook. After exporting to RTF, I was using OpenBook to change
the font for Chapters and things. Is there a way to do that in OpenBook?
What about Google Docs? Does it do the page break thing correctly?
--
by grace alone,
Pastor Don A. Elbourne Jr.
Lakeshore Baptist Church
http://lakeshorebaptist.net
http://rebuildlakeshore.com
On 3/17/2020 9:35 PM, Judy wrote:
Hi Don,
OpenOffice uses this code to force a page break in a document, instead of using
the code for a hard page break.
OpenOffice will always create problems with hard page breaks in an rtf document
by using the "page break before paragraph" code.
There is no way to fix or change this if you use OpenOffice.
OpenOffice programmers have been straightforward about this on their forum.
There is virtually no chance this will ever change. The same is true for
LibreOffice.
It's frustrating. I've used both programs for at least a decade for everything
but files for Bookshare. You just can't use OpenOffice or LibreOffice to create
or edit an RTF file for Bookshare because of the problem with how these
programs mess with hard page breaks.
If you are having trouble with hard page breaks and formatting with the OCR
software you use, which I recall is OpenBook, this list is the place to ask for
help on how to do that with OpenBook. I don't think, from what I've learned
here, that you even need a word processor like OpenOffice to create a high
quality rtf file for Bookshare if you have OpenBook.
In pretty sure there are several blind volunteers on this list who use OpenBook
successfully to create rtf documents that have all of the page breaks and
formatting needed for Bookshare submissions. I'm sure they will be glad to
help. smile.
Judy
On March 17, 2020 8:40:19 PM CDT, Don Elbourne <mailto:don@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
<don@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What does "page break before paragraph page breaks" mean and how do I fix it?
I use OpenOffice.
