Hi Tom,
In our case, font changes, especially where chapter, book title, and
section
headings are concerned, are not superfluous. Enlarging and bolding
font for
those things makes daisy navigation possible in Bookshare books.
Without
these fixes, folks using daisy books (which the majority of
Bookshare users
do) the user can't jump from chapter to chapter quickly. Also, if we
don't
standardize font for the sighted reader, they aren't getting eye
candy, but
eye 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 font
size which is difficult to read. It does help people in the end if
we do
standardize font throughout books and enlarge and bold the stuff
designated
for said tweeking in the scanning and proofreading manual.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Mitchell
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Formatting?
Thank you for the answers. I use the Apex to read the text. But
for some
reason, it doesn't like to read the RTF format (and it should) so I
turn the
document into an MS-word format and read it that way. The page
formatting
is 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
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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
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From: Kathy Novak
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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 Novak
But 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
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