[bksvol-discuss] Re: Where are those contrarians?

  • From: The Pardees <fpardee@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:14:30 -0400





Kenneth,
I have just redownloaded Thieves Dozen with Kurzweil and you are right that the page numbers are not correct, however, if you set the operator page numbers to skip the preliminary pages and set page 1 at the actual beginning of the book they are then correct and the table of contents matches, so I do not believe there any missing page breaks.


I have no idea how the Braille version would turn out.
I agree that the stripper could be modified in some way to retain the actual page numbers, but I believe the elimination of the stripper would result in even more confusion.


Jim

At 08:00 AM 7/24/05, you wrote:

I just downloaded Thieves Dozen.  There are a few page numbers, but only a
few in the copy I found.  I looked only quickly, but even some of the
chapters don't begin on the pages mentioned in the contents.  I did not
download the brf version, but I am going to do that now.  I expect what will
be mostly missing are the actual page breaks.  But that, for the moment, is
speculation.
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Where are those contrarians?


> > > > > > Hi Kellie, > > All I can comment on is my experience with my submissions that I have later > downloaded from Bookshare and read . Plus other submissions that I have > downloaded. Two examples of the first are Thieves Dozen and Cheapskate. I > downloaded them in Kurzweil, which chooses the Daisy format. Both retained > the chapter headings and page numbering. > There were no headings, since I had removed them. > About other people's submissions I've downloaded, using Kurzweil and more > recently, Bookport, the pages were numbered and there were no garbled > headers. Perhaps I have been lucky in choosing books that had all headers > stripped by the valadater, but I doubt it. > Maybe the book is run through the stripper a number of times to catch the > junk, I don't know. I do not doubt that others have problems with the > stripper, but so far I have not. > I will now return to scanning Motive For Murder, which I will submit in the > next several days. > I feel all of us on this list should be proud of what we have contributed > to a extremely worthy project. > > > Jim > > > > > > > > > > At 04:22 PM 7/23/05, you wrote: > > >Hi Jim, > >I think everyone agrees with you about nonsensical header gap. <grin> > >Unfortunately, it's those mangled headers that *don't* get stripped by the > >stripper. When the headers are nice and neat and uniform they, along with > >page numbers and chapter headings, get munched without a second thought. > >Which leaves all of us, lovers and haters of headers alike, stuck with this > >junk that isn't useful even to those of us who may actually need info from > >those headers. > >Kellie > > >



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