[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about Bracketed Letters

Stepping in on this one:
 
Debby is correct. We defer to the author. As Bookshare our role is to retain 
the original work of the author. We have some discretion in making changes to 
layout that preserve intelligibility or navigability. For example, when we add 
a statement in square brackets that a page is blank or had an illustration.

As someone commented earlier the author is also grammatically correct here in 
the situation Lori cites. The author is following the same rule we are - 
respecting the text as written in the original by indicating with square 
brackets that the quotation is plucked from mid-sentence and thus what is now 
the first word was not originally capitalized.

Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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Hi everyone!

Any bracketed text I find in a book I leave it there, since I reason that
the author intended it for some reason.

Debby

At 01:50 PM 6/26/2010, siss52 wrote
>
>Hi Lori,
>
>If I were doing the book I would delete the brackets because those words
>do not have brackets in them in the Bible.  Since it is quoting the Bible,
>that would seem appropriate.  Just my opinion though.
>
>Sue S.
>
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>From: <mailto:loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Lori Castner
>To: <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 1:45 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?
>Thanks.
>Lori C.
>
>
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