You're absolutely right, Mayrie, and I hope everyone reads your post and takes heart. I don't know if Braille readers or Daisy listeners can even tell if there is a different in font size or type. Perhaps members who are sighted can, but I'm sure it isn't that important. Cindy Ray, I was trying to answer Nancy's question as best as I understood it, telling her what is possible but not what is required. smile G.Cindy ***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/ http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html Jake's site for useful links: http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html --- On Mon, 6/2/08, Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: font size > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Monday, June 2, 2008, 4:05 AM > Hi Cindy, > > The whole font thing, and lots more is not > required. Bookshare has really very few requirements. > Some of us do > much more than is required because we know how awful the > results can > be, but are not destined to be, when only the minimum > requirements > are met. I'm sure you've already read the > volunteer manual. It > talks about what is required for both submission and > validation. And > that really is very little. > > What you're experiencing here is the struggle > between the > desire of some to make books as absolutely readable as > those offered > to the non-print-disabled community, and those who feel > that any > material that can be read that wasn't available until > someone did a > raw scan is enough and ought to satisfy. It is really each > > volunteer's choice where along that spectrum to work. > > Just my thoughts. Sorry for going on. > > Mayrie > > At 03:38 AM 6/2/2008, you wrote: > >You know, I didn't realize we had to do all of this > stuff--change font > >sizes and all that. I really thought all we had to do > was have > >accurate scans. Maybe I'm not going to spend any > time doing this > >anymore because, gads, if it is all required, I > don't have the time. > > > >I don't know if the last book I validated even got > up cause I never > >heard. Guess I should check. Anyway, since my job is > proofreading 35 > >hours a week now, I may not have time anyway. > > > >Or maybe the problem is just that I don't have time > to read this > >thread and am just issing something important? > >Cindy Lou > > > >Cindy Lou Ray. Each day is a new adventure. > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Grandma Cindy" > <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> > >To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 1:07 AM > >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: font size > > > > > >I'm not positive that I understand your question, > but I'll try. > > > >One can change font size and type in Word, and I do for > chapter titles > >and places where the print book has enlarged type, > e.g., for store > >signs in one book I validated, or newspaper headlines > in another. But > >my scanner doesn't convert to the exact fonts that > are in the book. > >For some of the validations I've done I've had > to make enlarged fonts > >smaller because they don't fit on the page. I was > told in the past > >that some don't fit properly on people's > Braille readers or whatever > >they're using to read, also. I seem to remember, > and hope I'm not > >wrong, that a size of 36 was the largest that would > fit. Of course > >that would depend on the font style, because some are > smaller than > >others, but to be safe I don't enlarge anything > more than 36. > > > >G.Cindy > > > > > From: NANCY M HILL > <girlyscream@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: font size > > > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Date: Sunday, June 1, 2008, 10:36 PM > > > Is there a place where you can adjust font size? > Would you > > > adjust the font > > > size for any reason other to help you proof or > validate the > > > book if you had > > > useable vision? > > > > > > Nancy > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Amy Goldring Tajalli > > > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 1:12 AM > > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: font size > > > > > > > > > Curtis, > > > > > > K1000 scans the print of the book at the size > of the > > > print - which I > > > cannot read most of the time. When I first > learned the > > > program, the Kurzweil > > > tech showed me how to set the size by > magnification and I > > > did not even > > > notice the font or font size. Magnification does > not change > > > anything at base > > > except what the scanner sees. It does not effect > the final > > > size which is > > > what the book is in. All the corrections show up > within the > > > original text in > > > the places I put them. If there is a problem, I > ask that > > > the > > > editor/validator double check but most of the > books I have > > > submitted have > > > been accepted as they were without going to step > 2. If I am > > > really worried, > > > I make a note to have something checked for me so > it will > > > go to step 2. If > > > not, I down load it when it is in the collection > and double > > > check there. > > > Only once have I requested that the final form > was bad > > > enough that I want it > > > sent back for rescanning and will be doing that > soon. > > > > > > Amy > > > oms m > > > < br>If it be now, 'tis not to come, > > > If it be not to come, it will be now, > > > If it be not now, yet it will come. > > > The readiness is all. > > > William Shakespeare. > > > > > > -------------- Original message from Curtis > Delzer > > > <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>: -------------- > > > > > > Fascinating, every book I've read using > K1000, for > > > some reason, I did > > > not pay attention at all to the font or it's > size. hmm! > > > :) Maybe I'm getting > > > ... what? forgetful? or .. what? :) > > > > > > Curtis Delzer > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > >bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the > subject line. 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