[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books in other languages
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:27:44 -0800 (PST)
Would the print books be in Roman letters so that a proofreader could proof
what's scanned? Or would the scanned book be inRoman letters when submitted?
I've seen on line, and used, he Greek alphabet which allowed me to
transliterate (if that's the right word)
Cindy
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> From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 9:58 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books in other languages
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>I suppose it answers my question. I was already aware that Japanese and
>Chinese words could be rendered in Roman letters even though I did not know
>what it was called nor how it is done. After all, in my general reading I
>often come across names and words in Chinese that are spelled out in Roman
>letters. I do wonder, though, just how easy it is to convert the Chinese
>calligraphs to Roman letters. I can imagine that it might be something that is
>very easy with a set of rules that could be followed almost mechanically and a
>whole book could be done in short order. In a case like that a computer might
>be able to do it in minutes. I can also imagine that it might be a job on the
>same order as translating the entire book in which case it would be a major
>undertaking.
>
>On 2/12/2012 11:59 AM, Ixchel Larrauri wrote:
>> Hi Roger,
>> Like I said, there is Chinese braille but our computers don't support
>> that. Now you are talking about Roman alphabets, Chinese has a pin yin
>> which goes by sylables and letters. I think, that it can indeed be
>> done so that the Chinese and Japanese books can get on bookshare. Does
>> that answer your question?
>> Jackie
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