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02-09-2004, 11:20 AM
There is a copyright on the book.
All of which boils down to, you can make one copy for your own use.
Fair enough, right?
What you may want to do if you're printing off the book is to assign page numbers.
If you don't and you drop the pages....
Anyway, for Word Perfect which is what the book is written in - Word works ok as well and the steps are similar - here's the drill.
Import the document into your word processing program. (Import just means to do the copy and paste bit.)
Change to your preferred font size and style by:
Select All (Ctrl and A keys depressed simultaneously.)
Select font style.
Select font size.
Click the cursor in a blank area to drop the highlight off the pages.
Select Save. (Save toggle or Ctrl and S keys depressed all same time.)
This will set up an initial save and give you someplace to backtrack to if things go awry.
The book was originally written in 12 point. Font is Times New Roman. Which is what most publishers use.
Save again and you're ready to add page numbers.
Place the cursor on what you want to be page 1.
Go to Format.
Select Page.
Click on numbering.
Choose page numbering format style - IE: -2- or 2 or A or a or whatever style you wish.
Select where on the page you want the page number printed.
Click Set Value.
Click OK.
That will roll the page numbers down the text.
As the succeeding parts come in, select the proper value for the new page, IE: Page 105 or whatever it is.
After that, you may want to go down the pages and any split paragraphs you find, hit the enter - or line space key, same key - and roll the upper lines on the paragraph into the next page. It makes for an easier read.
Break the chapters the same way.
In fact, if you want to get real ambitious you can indent the paragraphs instead of using a line skip to indicate paragraphs.
Line skips for paragraphs is the way formatting for the Internet is required on this site and others I'm familiar with.
As a fwiw, in a regular book, indents of 2-5 spaces indicate a new paragraph - I use 2 spaces.
A paragraph is a new thought or new speaker.
A skipped line is a new location or another story within the main framework of the story.
Or ... just print it as is, get a cold one and read....
All of which boils down to, you can make one copy for your own use.
Fair enough, right?
What you may want to do if you're printing off the book is to assign page numbers.
If you don't and you drop the pages....
Anyway, for Word Perfect which is what the book is written in - Word works ok as well and the steps are similar - here's the drill.
Import the document into your word processing program. (Import just means to do the copy and paste bit.)
Change to your preferred font size and style by:
Select All (Ctrl and A keys depressed simultaneously.)
Select font style.
Select font size.
Click the cursor in a blank area to drop the highlight off the pages.
Select Save. (Save toggle or Ctrl and S keys depressed all same time.)
This will set up an initial save and give you someplace to backtrack to if things go awry.
The book was originally written in 12 point. Font is Times New Roman. Which is what most publishers use.
Save again and you're ready to add page numbers.
Place the cursor on what you want to be page 1.
Go to Format.
Select Page.
Click on numbering.
Choose page numbering format style - IE: -2- or 2 or A or a or whatever style you wish.
Select where on the page you want the page number printed.
Click Set Value.
Click OK.
That will roll the page numbers down the text.
As the succeeding parts come in, select the proper value for the new page, IE: Page 105 or whatever it is.
After that, you may want to go down the pages and any split paragraphs you find, hit the enter - or line space key, same key - and roll the upper lines on the paragraph into the next page. It makes for an easier read.
Break the chapters the same way.
In fact, if you want to get real ambitious you can indent the paragraphs instead of using a line skip to indicate paragraphs.
Line skips for paragraphs is the way formatting for the Internet is required on this site and others I'm familiar with.
As a fwiw, in a regular book, indents of 2-5 spaces indicate a new paragraph - I use 2 spaces.
A paragraph is a new thought or new speaker.
A skipped line is a new location or another story within the main framework of the story.
Or ... just print it as is, get a cold one and read....