After you have removed the page separator lines from the document, Guiguts still knows where the page boundaries are because it saves the information in the .bin file. You can still jump to a page, display a page image, or message the proofers for a given page.
The page separators are useful to you in the early stages of post-proofing; they show you clearly where the first- and second-round proofers began and ended their work, the points at which they had to deal with hyphenated words, incomplete poems or italics or block quotes, and so forth. After the first pass through the book, however, they are not useful.
Page separators appear within paragraphs, between paragraphs, above or below illustrations and footnotes, and between chapters. Each case needs different handling. When the separator is within a paragraph, there may be blank lines above and below it, and a hyphenated word or phrase might have crossed the page boundary. If the separator is within a poem, block quote, or table, there might be */* continuation-marks before and/or after the separator. The Fix Page Separators dialog handles most of these issues automatically.
The first time you use this dialog, disable the SemiAuto switch. This keeps Guiguts from scrolling after it makes a change, so you can view the results and reassure yourself they are correct.
Begin or continue the process by clicking Refresh. This scrolls to the first remaining page separator line and highlights it search orange. Examine the line and choose your action as follows:
- If the line is in the title page or a table, just click Delete. You will revisit such areas and adjust the spacing later.
- If the line precedes a chapter-level section (Preface, Contents, etc.), click Chapter. Guiguts deletes the line and ensures that there are exactly four blank lines between the preceding and following nonblank lines.
- If the line falls between paragraphs (you may have to refer to the page images to be sure), click Blank Line. Guiguts deletes the line and ensures that there is one blank line between paragraphs.
- If the line falls within a paragraph, look for a hyphenated word above it. If so, decide if the word should be joined or left as a hyphenated phrase.
- To join the word, click Join Lines.
- To retain a hyphenated phrase, click Join, Keep Hyphen.
When you disagree with a change, click Undo or use any of the other ways to invoke Undo. You may have to click several times to undo all steps of a single Join action.
You can speed the process with the hot-keys that are available while the Page Separators dialog has the keyboard focus:
| r | Refresh: find the first separator in the book. |
| u | Undo (may need several uses to undo one separator). |
| d | Delete this separator. |
| l (ell) | Replace separator and adjacent blank lines with one blank line. |
| t | Replace separator and adjacent blank lines with two blank lines. |
| h | Replace separator and adjacent blank lines with four blank lines (chapter). |
| j | Delete separator, join paragraph including hyphenated word. |
| k | Delete separator, join paragraph, leave hyphenated phrase. |
| v | Display the page image for this page. |
| s | Toggle the SemiAuto switch. |
| a | Toggle the Full Auto switch. |
When you gain confidence, enable the SemiAuto switch. Then Guiguts makes a change and immediately scrolls to the next page separator; you don't need to click Refresh.
If you enable the Full Auto switch, on clicking Refresh, Guiguts goes through the file processing all page separators where the type of join needed is unambiguous. It stops when it finds one it cannot handle with certainty. You click the appropriate button and it continues.