[bksvol-discuss] Re: Is the Braille Translator Messing Up Ellipses?
- From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:46:29 -0700
Mayrie,
I've looked everywhere under autoCorrect and autoFormat to verify that I have
ellipses turned off. I can't find it anywhere.
I have Word 2002.
Lori C.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mayrie ReNae
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:06 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Is the Braille Translator Messing Up Ellipses?
Hi Evan,
I'm discovering messages in my folder of volunteer e-mails that I never saw
come in, so please forgive this very late answer to your probably long
forgotten note.
You ask about the ellipsis being inaccurately represented in brf copies of
Bookshare's books. One cause of this may be that the proofreader didn't have
the autoformatting feature of Word turned off that changes all ellipsis typed
as three periods into the ellipsis character. If this is not turned off, when
a person types three periods, or unites three periods separated by spaces, the
resulting thing will be the ellipsis character, which the braille translator as
yet can't translate properly. So, all proofreaders using Word need to turn off
that autoformatting feature.
Hope that makes sense.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of EVAN REESE
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 8:33 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Is the Braille Translator Messing Up Ellipses?
I don't normally read books I've scanned after they get approved, since I
either read through them before submitting them, or I scanned them for someone
else that I myself didn't want to read, but knew they would read through
completely before checking them in. Today though, I started reading a book that
I didn't read when I scanned it, but that Lissi thought I would like. In the
brf version of the book, I discovered that everywhere there is an ellipsis,
(three periods in a row without spaces, not the special character ellipsis),
the brf version of the file has not the three dot threes that are supposed to
be there, but just one dot three. I checked a slightly older book that we did
and found the same thing. I compared the brf file I downloaded from Bookshare
with the original file I scanned, so there's no mistake. All the ellipses in
the brf versions are just one dot three.
I don't know how far back this goes. The book I originally discovered this
issue in was added to the collection on July 30, 2010. The slightly older book
I checked which has the same problem was added on April 16, 2010; so it's been
going on for at least several months, unless it's been fixed since July 30. I'm
sure that the brf versions used to have the ellipsis correct, but at some point
it seems that a bug was introduced.
Evan
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