[bksvol-discuss] Re: formatting question
- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:42:53 EDT
If you can it would be good to describe pictures. If you can't, well, you
just can't.
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies
the end.
" Leon Trotsky
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: formatting question
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9/10/2009 9:55:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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I have had questions about dealing with pictures or odd formatting in books
so maybe this subject is okay for asking them. Is it the submitter's job to
describe pictures, maps, and diagrams? I notice that pictures are not in a
file that I proofread even though the book alludes to pictures. Of course, I
cannot see the pictures, but they appear as a list of objects in Microsoft
Word when using Jaws. Are proofreaders required to describe pictures?
Chanelle
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This sounds to me like the same kind of situation in which there is a
picture that is essential for understanding the text. That picture needs to be
described
by the submitter. It seems to me that instead of just spelling out the word
in brackets it would be appropriate to type the words submitter's note in
the
brackets with a colon and then follow with an explanation of how the page
was laid out and what you have done to clarify it.
"The end
may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
" Leon Trotsky
The Militant:
http://www.themilitant.com
Pathfinder Press:
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
Granma International:
http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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[bksvol-discuss] formatting question
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9/10/2009 10:25:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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Good morning!
I have a question. Doug and I are working on a children's book and it
relies
on some visual cues within some pages. On a couple of the pages it has the
first letter of the word of each line separated by a space from the rest of
its word so that when you look at the page vertically you see a message. In
other words, there is an intentional space so that you get a message when
you look at the word from top to bottom. Obviously a blind reader would
lose
this message and I am wondering how to best handle it. My immediate thought
is to leave it intact, but after considerable thought, I am thinking about
putting a bracketed message at the top of the page and simply making the
first letter either or both bold or larger, but eliminating the space so
that it reads as a word or plays as a word when using text to speech.
Feedback will be greatly appreciated so that I can modify it appropriately
to submit to the collection.
Thanks!
Valerie
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