[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: Em-dashes
- From: "mickey" <micka@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 01:38:25 -0400
Hi, Evan.
NLS contracts their work to various agencies--the lowest bidder. The
contractors use Duxbury, and type the work in, with some exceptions that are
scanned. Then the book is proofread once, errors are corrected, and it's
proofed again. Then it's put on zinc plates and proofed yet a third time.
And I still see errors in the work! As you may be able to tell, I was involved
with doing some of that for a while.
Mickey
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----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:46 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: Em-dashes
Thanks, Jana. But that brings up a question: If NLS can put out such good
Braille, why can't Bookshare do what they do. Surely, they don't do it by
hand, do they? Or do they? If they use software to get such nearly perfect
translation, why can't Bookshare just use that instead of all this talk about
why the translator can't do m dashes correctly? How does NLS do their
translation? Does anyone here know the answer? Maybe some proprietary
government-only software that noone else can have access to?
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jana Jackson
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:32 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fw: Em-dashes
Hi, Everyone! Here is a response from Jim Fruchterman regarding the
question of em-dashes. Sorry, I just realized that I forgot to send it over
last night. <Smile>
Jana
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Fruchterman
To: Jana Jackson ; Gustavo Galindo
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:38 PM
Subject: RE: Em-dashes
Thanks, Jana. I took a look at the digest from Saturday, and I assume the
answer is that we don't want to move away from the way the book was printed: we
have made a commitment to publishers and authors to work to bring the scanned
texts closer to the original. If we have a preference from Braille readers to
change our Duxbury output, I'd rather keep the focus on that.
Jim Fruchterman
jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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