Dear Pavi and Booksharian Friends,Carrie's proposal looks tidy and clear in print. In braille, it creates a problem. Those of us who read our Bookshare selections in braille have found that currently, for the < sign, it writes out the words "less than, and for > sign, the words, "greater than" are written out.
Would you consider using the left and right brackets to enclose picture captions, picture descriptions and notes to readers? [ and ] are the keys to the right of the letter p. I know the brackets are translated correctly. The left bracket is dot 6, dots2, 3, 5, 6, and the right bracket is dots 2, 3, 5, 6, dot 3. These are more direct and concise indicators than the words greater than and less than.
Thank you. Evan and Lissi----- Original Message ----- From: "Pavi Mehta" <pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:02 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dealing with Photos & Captions
Hi Marilyn and Lori, Thanks for writing for clarification -- here's an example: <Photo caption: The author outside his childhood home, 1978>The keystroke used for the angle brackets are the shift key with the comma key for the open bracketAnd the shift key with the period key for the close bracket. Hope this helps! Beautiful day, Pavi Mehta Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare Benetech 480 S. California Ave., Suite 201 Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA Phone: +1 650 644-3459 pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx www.benetech.org The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity A Nonprofit Organization -----Original Message-----From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marilyn BeasleySent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:14 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dealing with Photos & Captions Hi, Pavi. I don't understand where the actual words "Photo caption:" go -- inside or outside the angle brackets? Could you show me a small sample? Marilyn On Jul 16, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Pavi Mehta wrote:Hi All, In a recent exchange with a volunteer, the question of how to deal with photos and captions came up. I talked to Carrie to see if she had a particular approach that we could then try and standardize across the board (with such things there tend to be no right or wrong methods but it would be great to slowly but surely try to develop a uniformity of approach) Here are the guidelines Carrie put forward for such cases: * Remove the photos * Retain the caption text. * Separate it from the rest of the text with angle brackets <> * Precede the text of the caption with "Photo caption:" to make it clear what the text is. Let me know if there are any questions regarding this. Also -- if there are other areas where you think we need to formulate a standardized approach please let me know -- and we can start working on them. (These sort of things are really helpful to start clarifying as we work on making the scanning and validation manual more comprehensive and complete). All good things, Pavi Mehta Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare Benetech 480 S. California Ave., Suite 201 Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA Phone: +1 650 644-3459 pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx www.benetech.org The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity A Nonprofit Organization To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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