[bksvol-discuss] Re: formatting question
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:02:27 -0700 (PDT)
Carrie found my missing book. It's Identical, by Ellen Hopkins. Valerie, if you
can, you might download it and take a look at what I did with the formatting
and see if it gives you any ides. I even managed to make a page look like the
shape it was supposed to.
Cindy
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--- On Sat, 9/12/09, Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: formatting question
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 3:21 AM
> Hi, Valerie, what you are describing
> sounds like an acrostic to me. Could
> you write a note to the reader explaining that what is
> being shown is an
> acrostic? I really don't know how you can work this out
> because when I'm
> reading a book using a Braille display, I wouldn't have a
> whole page in
> front of me to make it obvious that what I'm reading is an
> acrostic. Also, I
> don't know how you would convey this in audio. This is a
> real poser. I could
> understand what you were doing if I had a hardcover book or
> pamphlet in
> front of me and I could turn the pages. Sorry, but that's
> all I know. I'm
> sure there will be others more savvy than I am who can
> advise you. Good luck
> and best regards, Kim.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Valerie Maples
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:25 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] formatting question
>
> 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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