Here's how I prepare books for reading with iBooks on my iPhone.
When I talk about using the Find command, I mean Cmd-F not the VO command.
Cmd-F highlights the text and left arrow puts you on that text and removes the
highlighting.
Cheers,
Anne
1 Open original document;
2 Select all;
3 Copy to clipboard;
4 Open Pages;
5 Select blank document;
6 Paste text into document;
7 Save as Pages document;
8 Press Command-Shift-T to show the styles drawer:
9 Stop interacting with everything and navigate twice left to
find the drawer;
10 Interact with the drawer and navigate once right to find the
table of paragraph styles;
11 Interact with this table and navigate down to Title;
12 Bring mouse (VO-Command-F5) and do a control click to get a
contextual menu;
13 Type H for Hot Key and select one from the submenu;
14 Repeat this process for Body and Heading 1 and as many other
heading levels as the book requires;
15 Stop interacting with the table and the drawer and return to
the text;
16 Select all and press the hot key for Body (this makes the text
look right for sighted users of the iPhone);
17 Go to the top of the document and make sure the text pointer is
somewhere in the title then press the hot key for Title;
18 Find the first chapter heading and with the text pointer in
that heading, press the hot key for Heading 1;
19 Continue through the document in this way until you reach the
end;
20 Remove any extraneous text such as a previous table of contents
that has not been recognised by Pages;
21 Create new TOC by going to the Insert menu and selecting Table
of Contents;
22 Save document then export to EPUB format;
23 Remember to enter the requested information in the dialogue box
(Title, Author, genre).
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