[bksvol-discuss] Re: Table Of Contents
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It is interesting that as this was being discussed I was thinking of books
I have seen with those dots between the chapter titles and the page numbers
in tables of contents and thinking that inserting them might be a solution.
I was hesitant enough, though, that I did not mention it until now. I am
certainly not the official authority on this, but as far as I would be
concerned that would be a perfectly acceptable solution. I am not really sure
that
it counts as altering the text. There are numerous adaptations that have to
be made to convert these books into ebooks that do not change a thing about
how the book was actually written like moving page numbers from the bottom of
the page to the top or deleting page headers and this seems to be just
another example to me.
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: Table Of Contents
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Interesting that you bring this up, Melissa. Doug just worked on a
book that the title of contents literally had periods between the
chapter titles and the page they started on and we were wondering if
that would be allowable in general. It would be more than three (an
ellipsis), but it could preserve the structure of the title of
content. As always, we want to maintain the integrity of not altering
text, but it does seem that the BookShare tool already significantly
alters things, so this might be an acceptable accommodation to
preserve the visual integrity for sighted readers.
Valerie
On 11 03, 2009, at 7:07 AM, Melissa Smith wrote:
> I've been thinking about Valerye's concerns about the table of
> contents. I got to thinking about how Braille books have a series of
> dots between the chapter title and page number. So, I was wondering
> if inserting an ellipses between the chapter title and page number
> would be an appropriate solution. An ellipses will be recognized and
> kept by bookshare's tools, and will give some separation between
> chapter title and page number for those that need that. It wouldn't
> be spoken by most screen readers, so wouldn't interfere with
> anybody's listening pleasure. Finally, since Braille readers are
> used to the series of dots between chapter title and page number, it
> wouldn't seem unusual to them either. So, do you think this would be
> acceptable and not violate any bookshare rules?
>
> Melissa
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