[bksvol-discuss] Re: Long Japanese O

  • From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:18:33 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks Cindy.  I'll replace my o~'s with o circumflex.  It seems good to me.
Tracy

> Tracy,
>
> I don't know if this site would be any help:
> http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/japanese/english.html
> It seems to show an o with a circumflex over it.
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
> --- Tracy Carcione <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Sherry,
>> I don't actually think that would be any better.
>> I'm trying for something
>> that doesn't totally break up the word, when it's
>> being read with speech
>> or braille.
>> I was hoping for some kind of symbol, like an O
>> circumflex, or something.
>> As I vaguely recall from my days of studying
>> Japanese, it's written in
>> English print as a long dash after the O.  Maybe
>> that would be better than
>> a tilde; I'm not sure.
>>
>> I've worked on much more fun stuff than this with
>> the long O!  This is a
>> collection of scholarly papers, mostly dry as dust.
>> But maybe some student
>> or scholar out there in Bookshare-land is dying to
>> get their hands on it.
>> Sure hope so.
>> Tracy
>>
>> > Hi, Tracy,
>> >
>> > Sounds like you're working on something fun...
>> > I've seen several options: the most straight
>> forward one is o followed by
>> > a
>> > colon  o:
>> >
>> > Sheri W-J
>> >
>> > At 11:32 AM 4/14/06, you wrote:
>> >>Does anyone know to properly represent the long
>> Japanese O?  I suspect
>> >> the
>> >>print is an O with a line either above it or after
>> it.  The scan is
>> >>representing it as o~, which I don't think is
>> right.  I'd like to replace
>> >>O~ with something, but don't know what it should
>> be.
>> >>Thanks.
>> >>Tracy
>> >>
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