[bksvol-discuss] Re: More on Roger's recent submission.

Hi Bob, 

        It's bookshare's tool.  Bummer, huh?   

Mayrie

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Is it bookshare's tool doing the messing up, or is it the translation
program on the user's end?

Bob
- "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."

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> Hi Robert,
>
> It isn't that the smart quotes are a circumflex.  It is that they
> are converted to that, or were last I knew, when turned into daisy files 
> by
> Bookshare's tools.  But to answer your question, both opening and closing
> quotes get mangled and disturb reading immensely.
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
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> Is the closing smart quote also a circumflex?
> RKP
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>>>> "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> 6/28/2009 8:29 PM >>>
> Hi Roger and Everyone else,
>
> In true OpenBook fashion, your submission of Imago has smart quotes.
> Whoever takes this book to proofread will need to change the smart quotes 
> to
> regular quotes.  This problem is not apparent to anyone using only speech.
> That is why I mention it.  Also, OpenBook uses these smart quotes 
> routinely.
> I don't know if Bookshare's tools have learned to deal with this problem. 
> I
> think I remember someone saying that that is either in the works, or 
> fixed,
> but if not corrected, smart quotes read as an a circumflex in the daisy
> books.  I have no idea how munched they are in the brf files, but this
> change from smart quotes to regular quotes is easy to do in word.
>
> Just thought I'd mention it.  Roger you didn't cause a problem, it's just 
> an
> issue that OpenBook has for everyone.
>
> Mayrie
>
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