[bksvol-discuss] Re: font size
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:42:43 -0700 (PDT)
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
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--- 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
> >
> >
> >
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