[bksvol-discuss] Re: We Borrow the Earth
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:02:32 -0700 (PDT)
I don't know if this will mean anything to you--I
googled, and I found out that Random House and
Thorndike use a 16 point font; I suppose the other
publishers' default font for large print books is the
same--but there are a number of firms that will
publish books in whatever size you want, inclujding 36
point.
All I can say about the ones I've seen are the fonts
are probably 16 pt. The print is als bold, and he
words are well-spaced.
I've gotten to the point that when I validate , and
the file is in 10 point, which most of them are, I
have to enlarge. I experimented, and, the book I'm
doing now, which is Times New toman 11 point, when I
enlarged it to 200, that looks about as I remember the
LP books I've seen.
I don't know if that helps or all or if you'll still
have to use your opticon (I don't know what that is).
But all libraries have LP books now, though ours only
had a few shelves of them, so maybe you can borrow one
and check it out.
Cindy
-- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would actually have to check out the typeface with
> an optacon. I can think of several possibilities
> which, for all I know, would make no sense. I don't
> know how large, large print really is, for example.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cindy
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 2:24 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] We Borrow the Earth
>
>
> I haven't seen that book, but I have seen some
> other
> books where the scan had lots of errors. Often the
> problem is the difference in contrast between the
> typeface and the paper, and/or the size and kind
> of
> font. Cass Timberlane, for example, uses a very
> small
> font and because the book is old--1945--and a
> wartime
> book, there are a lot of words on a page, the
> contrast
> isn't that great. Shelley says the paper of the
> books
> she's sending me is somewhat yellowed, and I
> suspect
> that's the cause of scannos. For some reason,
> though,
> that I don't understand, people have noticed a
> lot of
> errors in LP books, especially with fractured
> lines,
> parts of which show up further down the page or
> sometimes on the next page.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> -- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone sighted seen the book's typeface to
> give
> > some idea why it was misinterpreted?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: E.
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 8:13 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Computer
> millionaire
> > killed in air crash
> >
> >
> > Someone asked about the book I am currently
> > validating. It is We Borrow
> > the Earth: An Intimate Portrait of the Gypsy
> > Shamanic Tradition and Culture
> > Patrick Jasper Lee
> >
> > This is the one where v is mis-scanned as u
> and
> > other letter combinations
> > similarly miss-scanned. It started life as
> 95.5
> > accurate and I got it up
> > to 99%. That does not count errors k1000
> would
> > not catch like 1 for
> > I. This book is fascinating but fixing it up
> has
> > been out of the ordinary
> > to say the least. This is the book which got
> me
> > thinking about a utility
> > to substitute letters in mis-recognized k1000
> rank
> > spelling list.
> >
> > E.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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