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Often images are used to represent context breaks. Images are a suboptimal way to indicate a context change because they carry no semantic information. | Often images are used to represent context breaks. Images are a suboptimal way to indicate a context change because they carry no semantic information. | ||
- | Although not ideal, our solution is to replace | + | For all context breaks, |
- | Sometimes decorative breaks come right before or after a new section (heading). In these cases, we do not need to replace it, rather we can just remove it entirely since the headings imply thematic changes themselves. | + | * Go to the Home Section of the Ribbon Menu |
+ | * Select the dropdown menu for '' | ||
+ | * Select '' | ||
- | [[https:// | + | This will convert to the <hr class=" |
- | [[https://www.thebookdesigner.com/2010/06/ | + | Here is [[https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYQTY4dyJm|a link to a video tutorial for Inserting Horizontal Lines in Word]]. |
- | ==== Q&A Archive ==== | + | |
- | Q: I'm wondering about alignment and spacing. The poet in the book I'm editing (Silvija) makes use of left and right justification at some points in the book. Should I align the text as the poet did or stick to right justification only? Also, the book contains | + | < |
- | A: Poetry is a controversial area of ebook production :) NNELS takes the approach of using left justification for all our documents. For some people, text justification may present readability issues. Extended spaces between words and sometimes letters within words can create spaces of white that can visually dominate the text. If you use screen magnification then magnifying these spaces | + | [[https:// |
- | You can delete all empty pages as we don't have to worry about retaining the original page numbers in this work. We can still put each poem on a separate page. | + | [[https:// |
- | And yes, do use all the original punctuation. TTS is good at reading punctuation. If you're curious how TTS can read text, you can enable the built-in dictation software on your iOS (VoiceOver) or Windows. Keep in mind that TTS software tend to differ [[http:// | + | ==== Q&A Archive ==== |
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- | Q: If a book uses 2 different types of breaks, what should our approach be? | + | |
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- | A: NNELS replaces all breaks with 3 asterisks. | + | |
- | Q: Truth & Honour is using extra spaces | + | Q: Truth & Honour is using extra space between paragraphs in place of decorative breaks. Should I still treat it as a normal decorative break? |
A: Yes. | A: Yes. |