Hi Reggie,
If you do not have the book and are not in contact with the submitter, you
can check a snippet of a book at:
http://www.books.google.com
That is, provided google has the book. I use this site a lot. You will
see an edit box for "search books". You type the title of the book in
quotation marks. Then space once, hit a + symbol, then type a few words
before or after the word or phrase that is puzzling you. I have had very
good results with this site.
Sue S.
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From: Regina Alvarado
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 8:28 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: questions about book versus not in book
Welcome Charisma, and though I have been a volunteer since just about when
BKS started, I took a year off and things really changed! Still feeling
(no
pun intended) my way on the new required things as it used to be BKS was
for
only the blind community and now we help dyslexics too. Don't feel bad
about asking. These folks are great at helping, sometimes even on the
phone
for hours and hours! (smiles)
Now to my question. Mary had the word cheese instead of cheek. How did
you
find out it was not in the book? Is there somewhere on the web to check
this
out? I do realize if I was reading Roger's book say, which will be the
next
book I pick up, I could ask him directly, but what if there is no email on
the site or the person is not on the list? I have already come across a
few
words I have changed and did not change just because I am not certain
which
it is in the book or not. Are there that many printoes? Hate to bring
this
up again, but I wish to be as precise as I can. However, I don't want to
worry myself sick every time I need to change something either. Thanks so
much for any wisdom! By the way, I am really enjoying "Double Play ..."
Reggie
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mayrie ReNae
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:09 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: questions about: titles, hyphens, footnotes
Hi Charisma,
I'll try to answer all of your questions.
First, nothing on the copyright page needs to be in 16-point font as far
as
I know. If the title there is on a separate line, I do make that bold and
20-point, but this is not required.
If your title has a subtitle, I recommend putting the whole thing in bold
and 20-point font. I'm assuming you mean something like this: (I'm making
this up, of course).
The Weird, The Wonderful, and the Worst
The Life of a Typical Teenager
You can use the find dialogue to find hyphens, but I think you'd still
have
to look at them one at a time to be sure that they need to be where they
are. Control+h opens the find dialogue.
And I think that yes, your handling of footnotes is accurate.
And finally, because I forgot about your chapter heading questions. It
doesn't matter whether your first chapter is called Chapter 1 or preface.
The rule for bolding and italicizing for heading navigation is this Title
of
the book bold and 20 point Section of the book (Part one, Part Two, etc)
bold and 18 point Chapter, acknowledgments, forword, preface, end notes,
About the author, all at 16 point and bold.
And sections within a chapter bold and at 14 point. (Not all chapters have
this).
Hope that helps. Please ask if I've been unclear or forgotten to answer
anything.
Happy proofreading!
Mayrie
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charisma
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 8:57 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] questions about: titles, hyphens, footnotes
Hi all,
I can't find these answers in the manual. If you know where they are in
there, I'd be grateful for a link. :)
What do I do about titles--both book and chapter--that are too long for
one
line?
If the book title has a subtitle, does the subtitle also go in 20 point?
If the chapter title has a subtitle, does the subtitle also go in 16
point?
I am proofing a book in which the item identified as "1" (as in chapter 1,
not page 1) is a preface! What do I do about that!? lol
I can't figure out what to put into 16 point on the copyright page--just
the
line with copyright date and holder?
Has anyone found an easy way to hunt for broken (hyphenated) words besides
going line by line? I am doing a couple of authors who use double hyphens
multiple dozens of times throughout the book so searching by hyphen is
miserably slow.
And finally, I have a book with footnotes but they refer not to the bottom
of the page but to the back of the book. Do I handle those like
this:
[1]
or differently?
Thanks so much. I have hunted the manual for all of these questions and
not
found the exact answers I need.
Charisma
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