[bksvol-discuss] Re: fonts and validating

My understanding from some earlier discussions is that
italics and bold are retained. I'm not sure about
underlining, and I've never kept it, but recently I
saw it in something I validated so I did keep it in.
As Jamie said, though, recently people have pointed
out that tabs and extra spaces are not kept, so I've
been adjusting the margins when I want to place
something in further from the margin, e.g., newspaper
items or letters or poems. I don't know whether that's
kept or not. I got the impression from the Kipling
poetry book that it isn't, but I've beenkeeping on
doing it anyway. smile

G. Cindy

--- groups Warford <groups_warford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Cindy and Jim,
> Cindy, I'm not sure what the Bookshare translator
> does with bold fonts, and
> since this font was so different it worried me even
> more so I chose to use
> all caps.  If you've never had any problems with
> bold fonts, I trust that
> and won't worry about it.  I just wanted to try and
> do what seemed the
> easiest for readability for both speech and Braille
> readers.  It's the "not
> knowing" that's getting to me, which leads into
> Jim's question:
> 
> Jim, like you, I would definitely like to have more
> information about what
> the translator and/or "stripper"(?) do after a book
> is validated.  Who
> should I ask at Bookshare for this information?  I
> know it will help me a
> lot as a new validator, and maybe others, too, if we
> know we don't have to
> worry about different fonts, what happens with
> bolding, removal of a big
> block of white space, how bullets are translated
> into Braille  and so on.
> 
> If there are others out here on this list that
> understand the process,
> please weigh in.  This will be great information for
> me as a new validator
> (who wants to do a good job) as well as for my
> validation kit project!
> 
> Thanks in advance for any information!
> 
> Best Regards, (Does anybody ever say "Worst
> Regards"? <smile>)
> Cindy 4
>    
> To handle yourself, use your head. 
> To handle others, use your heart. 
> -- Author Unknown
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Grandma Cindy
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 10:01 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] fonts and validating
> 
> The only problem fonts cause in validating is if 
> they
> can't be read because they didn't scan correctly--or
> if we try to duplicate them.
> 
> I have a font somewhat like that but I can't
> remember
> which one--Sand, maybe. But I learned a long time
> ago,
> when I tried to use a font that was similar to
> cursive, that it was too difficult for Braille and
> Daisy users, or one of them, anyway, so now I just
> use
> italics and Bold.
> 
> Cindy, Did you say recently that Bold doesn't work
> for
> Braille or Daisy and that's why you used all caps
> instead? Is that what I should be doing?
> 
> G. Cindy
> 
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