Valerie & Doug, If I understand what you said, the letter that is separated from the rest of a word is part of a sentence. Is that correct? If this is the case, I would remove the spaces. And put the letter with the rest of the word. So that it may be read and make sense. If it is helpful, I think it is good to use brackets and use text like "reader's note" followed by an explanatory note, followed by by another bracketed "end of readers' note." This way as a reader, you hear that there is some explanatory text, and the readers are better informed and can enjoy the book just like if they were looking at it. I have heard this type of thing in recordings for years, in the NLS books and on RFB & D books. So it seems to me that our Bookshare collection could or should have these type of explanatory notes. I have used them in a scan where I think it appropriate. But not everyone who scans will be noting all of these details. And when that is the case, we just have to parse as best we can the confusing sections in text of books that are scanned for our collection. I hope that this is helpful. From what you said, if I got it right, an explanatory note may not really even be necessary. Thanks. Rik -------------------------------------------------- From: "Valerie Maples" <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:24 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 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.