I have been noticing that I can skip from chapter to chapter on the BRF files in many books I download for pleasure reading. Sometimes I just want to skip some chapters and move ahead in the story. So it is nice to have that optioon.
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To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:20 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Formatting?
Hi Tom,In our case, font changes, especially where chapter, book title, and section headings are concerned, are not superfluous. Enlarging and bolding font forthose things makes daisy navigation possible in Bookshare books. Withoutthese fixes, folks using daisy books (which the majority of Bookshare usersdo) the user can't jump from chapter to chapter quickly. Also, if we don'tstandardize font for the sighted reader, they aren't getting eye candy, buteye strain. OCR isn't always, in fact is rarely, consistent about keeping font size the same throughout a book. When we don't standardize the font,readers who aren't using braille or speech only see wildly fluctuating fontsize which is difficult to read. It does help people in the end if we dostandardize font throughout books and enlarge and bold the stuff designatedfor said tweeking in the scanning and proofreading manual. Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Mitchell Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 8:57 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Formatting? Thank you for the answers. I use the Apex to read the text. But for somereason, it doesn't like to read the RTF format (and it should) so I turn thedocument into an MS-word format and read it that way. The page formattingis therefore retained and I don't have to spend hours in the computer chair,but can relax in the recliner and rread that way. (I'm lazy, but it's comfortable and I can read for long periods that way. I've always sort of considered font changes in fiction, which is what I'm doing now, superfluous, since they're just eye-candy. But I am glad to see that the consensus seems to be for finishing the word on the original page. On 1/25/11, Bob W <rwiley45@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi Tom. Welcome to the free-for-all. I don't use a Braille display, so the answer to your first question will have to wait for smarter heads to wake up. But, can't you use"structured"mode to get anything sent to the Braille display that is sent to the synthesizer? As to your second question: whether the hyphens are there or not, the word has to be combined on either side of the page break. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Mitchell" <tommit60@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:22 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Formatting?On 1/24/11, Bob W <rwiley45@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi Kathy. The font changes are not automatically picked up by openbook, nor any scanning program I know of. Some people who scan do apply the font changes, but many prefer to leave it to the proofreader to apply them. That's one of the great things about having two people work on a book. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Kathy Novak To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 11:07 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Formatting? Any one, I am new at this list, so please bear with me. I have scanned one book, and am in processing of scanning another. Do I apply these font rules during scanning, or they automatically picked up by the scanner? I use Openbook. Kathy NovakBut as a new proofer who uses only Braille to proofread the book, how do I know the font changes? And I have another question, also. In the book I'm currently proofing, there are a number of occurrence where a hyphenated word is obviously divided between print pages, but the hyphens are being omitted either by the scanner or something else. I've been correcting them. Should I? Because if I understand the manual correctly the answer is yes. Tom Mitchell tommit60@xxxxxxxxx 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 subjectline.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 subjectline.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 ofavailable 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.----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3402 - Release Date: 01/25/11
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