Task - format a basic text document into a printer-ready book
You will work in five teams, each with a different book to format.
Find the e-book for your team on the Project Gutenberg website. 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 main page and use the search tools on the site to find it.
Download the plain text version, in us-ascii format, with no compression, from the main site. The size of the file below should guide you to the correct version. 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.
Teams and documents
- The Barbarism of Berlin by G. K. Chesterton; 86 KB in size
- Flatland: a romance of many dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott; 211 KB in size
- Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green by Jerome K. Jerome; 348 KB in size
- The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed; 453 KB in size
- The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton; 346 KB in size
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Condition
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 outside of 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 international standard and what associated size paper it expects to be printed on.
You will work in multi-person teams on this task. When your team has completed the task, one member of the team will store it in that person's password protected directory. Each of the members of the team will place a hyperlink to it on their respective web sites (the individual storing it will have a relative link to it, the others will have absolute links to the finished task). When it's ready for me to download and grade, send me a note telling me to retrieve it from your websites.
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Standard
You have a gradesheet to provide guidance.
Everything on that gradesheet will be analogous to something we will have done in class.
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