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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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about Bracketed Letters
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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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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