[bksvol-discuss] Re: long dashes.
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:29:58 -0500
I wasn't aware of the pronunciation issue, since I do most of my Bookshare
reading in braille; and I hadn't noticed it on my version of K1000. But if
that's what's in the book, then we gotta go with it.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Curtis Delzer
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:07 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: long dashes.
It just makes reading them a little weird since synthesizers tend to ignore
them, making the pronunciation, strange.
Curtis Delzer
----- Original Message -----
From: EVAN REESE
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:47 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: long dashes.
You don't need to do anything about the long dashes. What Kurzweil calls the
"long dash" is just another name for the em dash, a common punctuation mark.
Converting the file to rtf should not affect the em dashes in any way. If you
convert the file to rtf and then open it up in word, I am confident that you
will see the em dashes intact. I have done it many times.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Curtis Delzer
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:11 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] long dashes.
Hi all. I need some advice. I just finished scanning a book entitled
"Jitterbug," by
Loren D. Estleman
and in it, Kurzweil 1000 V11 recognizes the long dashes. Should I do
something about that before I export to *.rtf, or should I submit it in *.kes
format? The scan is quite good after I changed "die," to "the," where
fortunately there weren't too many "dies," in the book. :)
Thanks! I submitted a book many years ago, "A Tiger Walks," by Ian Niall,"
written in 1961, and actually scanned by, get a load of this, a Kurzweil
Personal Reader, and it was practically perfect, in 1992. How's that for an
ancient scan? :)
Curtis Delzer
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