[bksvol-discuss] Re: Submitted: In spite of the gods : the strange rise of modern India
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- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:25:06 -0700 (PDT)
Sorry, didn't know it was in the collection. How do we retract the book?
Jim
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From: E. <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 5:57:48 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Submitted: In spite of the gods : the strange
rise of modern India
Is the copy of In Spite of the Gods better than
the one added to the collection recently?
E.
At 05:27 PM 10/15/2007, you wrote:
>Submitted for validation:
>
>In spite of the gods : the strange rise of modern India -- 2007
>
>
>
>Spellchecked very carefully, many Indian names,
>should not need spell checking.
>
>Headers removed.
>
>Blank pages labelled and numbered.
>
>A burgeoning economic and geopolitical giant,
>India has the 21st century stamped on it more
>visibly than any other nation after China and
>the U.S. It's been an expanding force since at
>least 1991, explains journalist Luce, when India
>let go of much of the protectionist apparatus
>devised under Nehru after independence in 1947
>from Britain, as part of a philosophy of
>swadeshi (or self-reliance) that's still
>relevant in India's multiparty democracy. From
>his vantage as the (now former) Financial
>Times's South Asia bureau chief, Luce
>illuminates the drastically lopsided features of
>a nuclear power still burdened by mass poverty
>and illiteracy, which he links in part to
>government control of the economy, an
>overwhelmingly rural landscape, and deep-seated
>institutional corruption. While describing
>religion's complex role in Indian society, Luce
>emphasizes an extremely heterogeneous country
>with a growing consumerist culture, a
>geographically uneven labor force and an enduring caste system.
>
>Jim Nuttall--Michigan
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 5:04:20 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question About a Special Character in Names
>
>I don't know if it will affect the pronunciation of the Daisy version or
>not, nor do I know how the Braille translator will handle it. I am simply
>trying to keep what is in the book. I guess I'll just have to see what
>happens to the Ø - in the Braille version anyway, since I don't use the
>Daisy one - when it gets added to the collection. I can at least say that my
>JAWS doesn't seem to pronounce anything differently when I use that Ø
>compared to a word with the normal O.
>
>Evan
>
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>From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 9:48 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question About a Special Character in Names
>
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> > Do I assume that when corrections like this are made, they will affect the
> > pronunciation in the DAISY format but will simply be ignored or attempted
> > to be verbalized in braille (such as when we see "greater than" written
> > out?) This leads to an additional question; how is a book in the
> > collection downloaded in order to see the print?
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> > From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 12:17 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question About a Special Character in Names
> >
> >
> >> Thanks, this is excellent! I can just use a global replace to correct
> >> these names. The Ø didn't scan quite right, so that's why I needed to
> >> find out what it was so I could fix them up.
> >>
> >> My version of MS Word won't give me that using the alt-shift-o, but I can
> >> use the alt-0216 method to accomplish the same thing.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Evan
> >>
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> >> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 11:57 PM
> >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question About a Special Character in Names
> >>
> >>
> >>> I don't know what it's called, but I have it in my
> >>> Symbols under the Insert MEnu in Word. I've pasted it
> >>> below. If it came out maybe you can copy and paste. It
> >>> can be made by keystrokes, at least on my keyboard, by
> >>> combining Alt shift o, i.e., alt capital o.
> >>>
> >>> Ø
> >>>
> >>> Hope that works for you.
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