That has come up here before. The brackets indicate that something has been inserted that was not in the original quote. In a case like this it is probably a lower case letter that has been changed to a capital letter.
_ _ _ "Socialism is an attack on poverty." - W. E. B. Du Bois The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 2:45 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question about Bracketed Letters Hi, Everyone, In a book I am proofreading, there are some quotations from the Bible. All of the quotations begin and end with a quotation mark.In a few of these quotations, the first letter is surrounded with brackets; the letter is the first letter of a word, i.e. "[C]ast your cares upon Him." I don't really understand why the letter is bracketed; for braille reading sake should I remove the brackets? Or since they are truly part of the book, should I leave them in place?
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