[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question re caps

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:33:30 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks, Pratik--and for the prompt answer, before I
got too far into the book. smile

Cindy

--- Pratik patel <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Cindy,
> 
> I would recommend that you leave the formatting to
> the way it appears in the
> books.  As blind people aren't the only users of
> bookshare, I would rather
> see that the integrity of the original text is kep
> than it be reformatted to
> suit the needs of blind individuals.  Whatever needs
> to be done, the user
> software should be able to take care of it.  Certain
> things such as headers
> and footers are a differentthing.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pratik
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Cindy
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:05 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question re caps
> 
> The books I'm validating now has the first sentence
> of
> every chapter in capital letters. In the past, if
> the
> file I downloaded did not put them in caps, I didn't
> either, since when I proofed for PG the rule was not
> to. In fact, I might have change them to normal
> sentence case. The last book I validated that had
> the
> first words in caps,I did leave them rather than
> change them, but now I'm wondering--especially for
> those of you who listen to the books--I seem to
> remember someone saying, at least as far as e-mails
> go, that caps are louder and/or indicae emphasis. Is
> this true in books? Shall I change the first lines
> of
> the chapters to ordinary sentence case?
> 
> Cindy
> 
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