[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare Daisy files maintain Bolding, Font point sizes, Italics, and more

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:17:45 -0800 (PST)

In the past I tried to match the fonts in the print as closely as possible with 
fonts available to me in Word, but I learned that some of the Fancy ones just 
don't translate translate--I assume in braille but maybe in other things, too, 
so I just use times Roman, or may New York or some of the more common fonts 
that approximate what I'm seeing. I didn't know Arial was desirable; I thought 
Times roman was the preferred font, generally. I do enlarge and bold and 
italicize letters and words, though, if they're that way in the book.
Cindy

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--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare Daisy files maintain Bolding, Font 
> point sizes, Italics, and more
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 8:19 PM
> Thanks Judy. It's helpful to know
> where to focus. I thought the font face
> was retained from our rtf files and have been trying rather
> frantically to
> make sure the chapter font face stays consistent. In my
> current book, some
> scanned as Arial and others scanned as Times New Roman. The
> glossary is a
> table in an entirely different font, and I was about to
> type it in to make
> it behave.
> 
> I remember the staff discussing the issue with us last year
> because they
> wanted sighted users to be able to adjust fonts to a size
> and type that
> works best for them. I never looked at the style sheet to
> see what they had
> done with that. I assumed they used the font face from the
> book. I wonder
> why they chose Arial as the default. I know you probably
> don't know the
> answer. My mind is just wandering. I'm also somewhat amused
> at how I have
> talked for so long about something I will never understand.
> 
> 
> Oh how I wish they still sold Opticons. I'd buy one in an
> instant so I could
> physically touch/see books and the shapes of the letters.
> I'd tackle the
> book I have here just to see the difference between a
> normal letter and the
> version in italics. We had an itinerant teacher during
> second grade who had
> an Opticon. She taught me to use it for an hour each day
> and then left at
> the end of the year. I never got to spend time alone with
> it exploring the
> books I wanted to read... Hardy Boys adventures! :D I wish
> whoever owned the
> patent to the machine would sell it to someone who would
> make a new model.
> 
> 
> Monica Willyard
> "The best way to predict the future is to create it." --
> Peter Drucker
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