Debby, Window-Eyes will read them, but you have to go into screen and punctuation. Then, I can't remember, but you have to either turn on the math or miscellaneous punctuation. I doubt that braille handles them well, though. So, since Braille probably doesn't, we should stick with the 1/2, 1/4, etc.
Melissa Smith On 5/7/2010 10:35 AM, Debby Franson wrote:
Hi Jill and everyone! Whenever I have submitted a cookbook, I have made sure all fractions are correct. I have wondered how accurate other Bookshare cookbooks were until joining this list when I have found that many volunteers take care to correct the scanos, since fractions are usually horrible for OCR to get right. The first cookbook I downloaded years ago was "The I Hate to Cook" cookbook. The fractions were not written as 1/2 and 1/4 but the higher ASCII characters for those fractions, so, unless I was left' or right-arrowing over those fractions, Window-Eyes ignored them entirely, so I hope that people always use the 1/2 and 1/4 form of the fractions so they are read rather than ignored by synthetic speech.. I suspect those higher ASCII characters don't show up well on a braille display either. Am I right? Here they are to test: ¼ ½ Debby At 09:46 PM 5/6/2010, Jill O'Connell wrote > I hope you sent your suggestion to the volunteer coordinator where > it might possibly do some good. It is really disappointing to > download a recipe book and find it virtually unreadable. >> ----- Original Message ----- From: >> <mailto:mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx>Melissa Smith To: >> <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >>
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