[bksvol-discuss] Synopses -- txt from rtf files
- From: Cindy R <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:28:44 -0700 (PDT)
Guido and Mary,
Do I understand you correctly, that if a validator
changes or adds a synopsis, short or long, to a book
that doesn't seem to have an adequate one from the
submitter, the change/addition doesn't "take?" I've
done that on several occasions, including the book I
just uploaded, Thermodynamics of Pizza. I added a
little bit to the short synopsis and quite a bit,
quoted from the fly leaf, to the long synopsis,where
there was nothing. Why wouldn't the changes show up?
If they don't, then there's no way for a validator to
put what a submitter omitted. I suspect that there are
quite a few submitters who don't read the books the
scan. A sighted volunteer probably doesn't have the
kind of scanner that reads the scan aloud, and from
the quanity of books some members submit, I can't
believe they read them all before submitting them,
though I may be wrong.
On another topic--I downloaded the aforementioned book
as a txt file, worked on it as Word, saved it as an
rtf file, and hoped to upload it that way but
discovered that I had to upload it as the txt file it
was in the first place. This is the first time I've
downloaded a txt file. I chose the text only option
from my save choices, but it did warn that the
formatting might not be saved, and I know there have
been recent discussions here about lost formatting. My
other options were text with line breaks or text with
layout. Should I have used one of them?
It appeared to me that the formatting was o.k., but if
anyone takes the book and discovers a problem, I still
have the rtf file and can submit that as well.
Cindy
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