[bksvol-discuss] Re: levels of daisy navigation in scanned books? And a variety of questions
- From: <ohio1803@xxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 13:22:25 -0600
This was a big help, Scott. Thank you.
So as a submitter, if I do these things, is that pretty useful for proofreaders?
It was good to see the additional information on that Wiki page, too.
Some great attempts to get all our folks on the same page, so to speak!
Footnotes information was useful. the book I am doing now has quite a number of
them in certain sections of the book.
And I noticed about pages of photographs the preferred text is to put the word
image in brackets. I had used the text photo caption. Hope that is okay.
Here are a few bonus questions if anyone can help to educate and inform me:
This one book I am now doing has its page numbers in brackets. Any opinion on
that? Should I leave them in brackets or remove them?
Thanks. My objective has always been to submit a book as ready for the
collection as possible.
I do hope we may have more books that I download that will have the multiple
level of navigation.
While I ask questions, I wonder if anyone knows, why do the books now appear
differently in the old Book Port?
I notice that quite a number of them do play okay. But when I go to the folder
where they are, sometimes they are absolutely silent and thus have no title for
the Book Port to read. When I play them they work, however.
Also in the same vein, these books no longer have their titles to appear in the
Book Port Transfer program. Rather they only appear as a number. Which is fine,
except that no way can I do any housecleaning using that software and have to
delete titles within the Book Port itself and not with the software.
Thanks.
Rik James
in the [] and outside the box. smiling.
From: Scott Rains
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 5:02 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: levels of daisy navigation in scanned books? And
a variety of questions
Rik,
Here's the basics on DAISY navigation:
4) Use these font sizes: For the:
20 point + BOLDING Book title
18 point + BOLDING Larger section headings
(such as "Part I", or "Section 2")
16 point + BOLDING Headings for each section
in the Front Matter, & Back Matter
16 point + BOLDING Chapter headings
14 point + BOLDING Chapter subheadings
12 point Text in the body
of the book
5) Maximum font size for anything in the file: =
20 point
Minimum font size for anything in the file: =
8 point
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/4.+Proofread+a+book#4.Proofreadabook-4optionalproofreadingsteps
From: "ohio1803@xxxxx" <ohio1803@xxxxx>
Reply-To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 15:38:53 -0700
To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] levels of daisy navigation in scanned books? And a
variety of questions
Should we as book scanners ever see the day that we will scan our books and set
the multi-levels of Daisy navigation?
I sure have been enjoying my own book scanning creating the Part 1 and part 2
as one level, and then the chapter headings as the next level down and so on.
And this still has the page breaks as navigation, too.
I think from submitting a couple books, the RTF files do not have that
capability, do they?
And while I am asking silly questions, some books we are getting to download,
they have the daisy with image version as well as just daisy.
What is that all about? Can anyone enlighten me?
I had been more actively volunteering, and am just returning for a bit with a
few books I wanted to submit and may try to proofread again.
Are there a ton of changes since say about 18 months ago as far as proofreading
goes? It seems that might be the case.
If so, and you have it handy, please post the link to the most fresh version of
the volunteer manual.
Thanks everyone for all your great work!
Rik
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