[stylist] lines on a page

Tue Mar 4 16:45:40 UTC 2014

Jim

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> On Mar 4, 2014, at 7:22 AM, "Homme, James" <james.homme at highmark.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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