To a sighted reader it does indicate emphasis or, in the case of personal
letters written, or notes written from one person to another,it makes it more
realistic, if one can say that--and sometimes, as in Penduli, which I just
finished validating, it indicates a person's thoughts vis-a-vis what he/she is
saying.
I can't think offhand of all the used to which italics are used--I think those are the main ones. Sometimes newspaper articles within a story are given in italics, but I don't think that's essential; it would probably be just as clear to a sighted reader if it were indented and in quotation marks.
I assume when I validate that Jaws or Daisy or whatever is audio--I still don't
have the various technologies straight in my mind, though it was explained
once--emphasizes the italics in speech, or somehow reads it differently, though
you just said that JAWS didn't, so I must be confused. And I thought someone
posted that braille differentiates italics, but that wasn't your question.
smile
G.Cindy
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--- On Sat, 7/5/08, Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: italics
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 10:29 PM
Thank you but that's not the problem or the question. I
have sighted help
and have copied the sentence. My question is, this is going
to make a real
change in the print copy so the sighted reader (dyslexic
etc.) will miss the
way it looks in the book entirely. This is why I am asking
how others are
dealing with this issue. But thanks again for your offer.
You know I won't
hesitate to ask you for help when I need it; you are always
so generous.
Jill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grandma Cindy"
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To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 8:29 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: italics
What is the book, Jill? If I can get it, I can send
you the sentence
italicized.
G.Cindy
--- On Sat, 7/5/08, Jill O'Connell
<jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Jill O'Connell
<jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] italics
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 3:55 PM
I have been following the discussion on the list
about
making italics but
have done nothing about it so far; this is partly
because
Kurzweil does such
a good job reading them and although it would be
nice, I
didn't think it was
all that important making the italics available in
braille
since they
wouldn't be shown in the speech version
either. Now,
however, I am
confronted with an example that Kurzweil can't
read and
it's fairly long. I
can retype it but, of course, the effect will be
lost for
the sighted
reader. I would really welcome being told what
others are
doing in similar
situations. I think it is virtually impossible to
accommodate the three
readinggroups who use Bookshare. I wonder how the
staff
doing scanning
would handle this situation. Any comments would be
welcome.
Jill
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