[bksvol-discuss] Re: Another "Castle of Adventure" Problem
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:16:09 -0700
Hi Ilene,
Cindy recommended accurately about the dashes. You did right.
Without changing those as you did, they wouldn't have represented properly
in braille. And I checked, in case you're wondering, before pushing for
this very technique, and it is something done by printers that is optional,
converting the em dashes (as the long dashes are called) to double hyphens
and removing spaces around them.
I know it sounds like walking a very fine line about what to change and what
not to, but here has always been my thinking. If the em dashes are not
converted to double hyphens and the spaces around them removed, they will
represent inacccurately in braille. I advocate for childrens' books being
as accurate as possible, as we do not want to teach, even by example,
children improper braille. So, I fix those things. In the matter of
apostrophes in British-printed books, this is also correct, and should be
left alone.
I know it seems a little arbitrary, but it's what I think.
Mayrie
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Another "Castle of Adventure" Problem
Now that we're talking about changing things, I think I changed something
perhaps best left alone, but hope it is not fatal and almost thought of
keeping quiet.
Cindy mentioned that you could take dashes and replace with two hyphens, and
also remove the spaces around them. I did this for the entire book, but
hey, that may be the way it should have stayed, with the dashes intact and
spaced. So now what? I really don't see myself doing this all over again.
But i can leave the dashes alone in the rest of the books in this series.
Ilene
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