[bksvol-discuss] putting additions to books in brackets

I used to do that, Guido, but one of our list members
told me that it's annoying to people who listen to the
books, so I've stopped. Now I use a different size
font. What is the general consensus among listeners
and braille users? Are brackets around our additions
to the books' texts annoying or  not? I used to put my
descriptions of illustrations in brackets also, and
use the word Illustration to identify them, but I
don't do that any more, either; I use different fonts
for the text and the descriptions. I doubt that the
voices reading the book to those who listen
distinguish, but ...

Whatever the most people want, or whatever the
administrators want, I'm happy to do.

Cindy


-- Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Elizabeth,  if you add captions,  you may want to
> put those in square 
> brackets.  It is a common practice for editors to do
> so.
> 
> Strictly speaking the word Chapter should be
> square-bracketed as well if 
> added by the editors like you and I,  but in total
> honesty,  I have never 
> bracketed it myself, whenever I added it to a book.
> 
> Guido
> 
> 
> Guido Dante Corona
> IBM Accessibility Center,  Austin Tx.
> Research Division,
> Phone:  512. 838. 9735.
> Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Web:  http://www.ibm.com/able
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> I too am a stealthy adder of words.  Mostly I just
> add the word "chapter" 
> but sometimes I add the word "(caption)" to indicate
> a description where 
> the description is just plunked down in the middle
> of text.  Also, I make 
> sure the text ends at the end of the sentence by
> moving parts of sentences 
> 
> when the description breaks up a text in the middle
> of a sentence.  Hope 
> that makes sense.  When I am doing it it makes more
> sense than when I am 
> describing doing it.
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