[stylist] lines on a page

Tue Mar 4 14:49:43 UTC 2014

You can make howto books as long as you like!

Well, really, you can write anything as long as it has to be.

Or as short.

Write On,
Atty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Homme, James" <james.homme at highmark.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] lines on a page

> Hi,
> I think I may try to make a short book to see if this works, rather than 
> put someone else through this. I'm a little concerned, though, because 
> I've never written anything longer than articles. I have  a lot of 
> material, though, because  I compiled some files about the subject on 
> which I want to do the book. Do you think it would be OK to do a book that 
> is 50 pages or less?
>
> Jim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Applebutter 
> Hill
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 4:13 PM
> To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [stylist] lines on a page
>
> Jim,
> Have you read the Smashwords style guide? It's been a year for me, and I
> don't have a new book to publish yet, but I'd want to make double sure 
> that
> the Style Guide doesn't preclude using this format. Sorry I don't have 
> time
> to go through it again at this time.
> Donna
> Donna
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Homme, 
> James
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 2:22 PM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] lines on a page
>
> Hi People,
> Would someone who understands SmashWords like to try something with me? 
> Let
> me explain.
>
> I'm very excited that I may have stumbled upon something that will help us
> both create accessible HTML and Word documents, plus get them ready for
> SmashWords. And it's a thing that is 100 percent accessible. The process 
> is
> a little drawn out, but I think that in the long term, very nice. Let me
> explain.
>
> Briefly, there is a mark-up system called Txt2tags. It's a way to write
> plain text documents and then have a little program turn them into HTML or
> XHTML, among other formats, and then import them into Word, hopefully, 
> with
> all the styles created by Word automatically without you having to do
> anything, and then you save in the format you need.
>
> Oh, of course, you also  would want to spell check and all that stuff, but 
> I
> should hopefully assume that you writer people would do that.
>
> Now, to take my foot back out of my mouth. Hmmm.
>
> OK. I can't explain it all in this e-mail. The basic idea is to mark up 
> your
> plain text document and then feed it to the script. Then, look at it in 
> your
> web browser, and correct in your text editor until you get a very nice
> document by altering the text, running the script, and checking in your
> browser.
>
> Here is what some of the mark-up looks like. Note that spaces matter, so 
> for
> headings, you have to leave a single space between the right most mark and
> the line end character. Here goes.
>
> = Title of Document =
> == Subsection Under Document Title ==
> === Third Level Down ===
> This can go down to heading level five without changing the script. I'm
> pretty sure I can give you what you need if you want to cover all the
> heading levels in HTML and get down to level 6.
>
> OK. Here is more.
>
> - This is the first item in a bulleted list
> - This is the second item, and the below line closes the list.
> -
>
> + Here is the first item in a numbered list.
> + This is the second.
> + This is the third, and the next item closes the list.
> +
>
> This link automatically gets turned into a web link that you can click.
> http://www.nfb.org/.
>
> When you use a blank line, you automatically get a paragraph break.
>
> **Here is some bold text**.
>
> //Here is some italic text//.
>
> And, if you need to do so, you can do tables, but I'm not going to do them
> here.
>
> --So strike that idea--.
>
> You can also do numbered headings, like 1., 1.1, 2.1, and all.
>
> They also let you do definition lists and terms.
>
> For nested lists, they want you to indent with tabs, but I am working on a
> totally accessible replacement, because screen readers are bad at reading
> tab characters on the fly. It shouldn't be too hard.
>
> If you would have to do some sort of scholarly paper, I'm unsure if this
> thing can be made to do footnotes and end notes, but I know that I can
> create a way to do the HTML citation tag.
>
> So who wants to experiment?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Applebutter
> Hill
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 12:39 PM
> To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [stylist] lines on a page
>
> Jim,
> You make an excellent point about tabbing being the wrong thing to do. If
> people want to self-publish through Smashwords, for instance, you won't 
> get
> approved for their free advanced distribution option if you have tabs or
> hidden bookmarks in your book. It's best to get over using that and into 
> the
> habit of using Styles.  I never used tabs, just set up each document with
> the paragraph and font dialogs. I wish I had started learning Styles 
> before
> I was already in the publishing process. *grin* Donna
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Homme, 
> James
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 7:54 AM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] lines on a page
>
> Hi Atty,
> If you want to change the Normal style so that it indents the first line 
> of
> every paragraph, which is the correct way to do things, that is possible.
> You can also make your own style that has indent for the first line. I 
> just
> checked my Normal style, though, and it already indents the first line by 
> 48
> pixels. I don't know that the translation is in inches. Tell me what Word
> version you have, and I'll get you instructions. The wrong thing to do is 
> to
> press TAB to indent.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Atty Rose
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 11:54 AM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: [stylist] lines on a page
>
> Hi folks,
>
> How do I check how many lines in a page and how far down the page I am 
> with
> word 2007?
>
> How do I get word 2007 to indent the first line on my paragraphs?
>
> How can I check how many lines between paragraphs?
>
> Thanks!
> Atty
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