Task 03 - Document Markup

Task - format a basic text document into a printer-ready book

  1. find the e-book The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, on the Project Gutenberg website
  2. Your task is to transform, through skilful formatting, a basic text version of the book into one created to meet a client's expectations.
    • retrieve the plain text version of the e-book from the Project Gutenberg site. Start with the list of most downloaded works. If you can't find it there, use the search tools on the site to find it.
    • use etext number 113 and download the plain text version, in us-ascii format, with no compression and a size of 442 KB, from the main site
    • save the document on your client as a .txt file
    • once you have the document on your client, open it in MSWord (using the Windows default, if you are given a choice) and save it as a .doc or .docx file, so you can take advantage of some of the specific tools available in MSWord
    • then format it, following the specifics in the gradesheet

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Condition

  1. Prepare this task for a client who wants a product that can be printed as if it were to be bound.
    • the client wants the version formatted so that it may be printed with no special considerations everywhere except in North America
      • a book format is about 5.8 by 8.26 inches, or 148 by 210 mm, but International Standard Paper sizes are not necessarily the same we are used to
      • there is an international standard that fits this size and the book should be formatted to tell a printer exactly what size paper it expects to be printed on
  2. place a hyperlink to it on your web site
    • when it's ready for me to download and grade, send me a note telling me to retrieve it from your website

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Standard

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