[bksvol-discuss] Re: Characters
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 14:15:58 -0700
Or perhps you could copy and paste the macron from the Wikipedia article
on the language onto your file. I've done that with other letters that my
symbols file in Word didn't have.
Tis discussion was interesting to me for several reasons: heard of the
macron or Pali. googling Pali, I find that it's an indo Aryan language and
now I can fill in the crossword puzzle I've been working on (the clue is
IndoAryan language. Thanks, evan
Cindy
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Lori, Lissi suggested the same thing a while back and I had
> forgotten about it. It sounds like a good compromise to me.
> Evan
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Lori Castner
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 4:23 PM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Characters
>
> How about adding a "Submitter's note" at the beginning of the book which
> states that there are many words that contain macrons, but that these words
> do not translate properly into .brf. Therefore, you are omitting the macron
> symbols. Then explain that the most frequently used words in the text that
> contain macrons are the following: list sample words.
>
> That is sort of a middle ground fix, but it would alert readers to the
> presence of the macron symbol, and its usage.
>
> Lori C.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 10:35 AM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Characters
>
> Don't know about the c acute, but the o with a line over it is a macron.
> There's a chart of special characters including the macrons in an article
> in
>
> Wikipedia on the Pali language. The problem is that those characters will
> not reproduce in braille. There's a book on Bookshare containing Pali words
> with macrons in them, and those characters are blank in the brf version of
> the book. So what came out is a book with numerous words with one or more
> blank spaces in them where the vowells with macrons are supposed to be. It
> doesn't make for a very pleasant reading experience. I am debating whether
> to even bother with these diacritical marks. I've got some good books on
> Buddhism here that contain these macrons, among other diacritical marks in
> the Pali words, and I keep vacillating on whether to try to reproduce them
> or not. The point is to communicate the content after all, and if the
> braille translator is going to interfere with that, then I would just as
> soon leave them out. On the other hand, I really want to reproduce books as
> faithfully as I can for Bookshare. So I don't know what I'm going to do
> with
>
> them.
> Evan
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Gary Petraccaro
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 9:55 AM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Characters
>
> I'm looking for two characters. One is an o with a straight line over it,
> as
> in a Japanese No play. The other is an c acute. I have checked an ascii
> chart for the second, but I'm not sure that my software represents it. I
> want to double check that. The o I have no idea what to search for.
> Thanks.
>
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