[optacon-l] Re: Print Simetry
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:24:05 -0500
Hi Catherine and everyone!
I know what you mean about how nice tables can look. I really appreciate
it when the grid lines are used in a table in a book. It makes it so much
easier to track through the table. I agree that the same table in braille
cannot look as pretty.
Your list of things you have seen with the Optacon got me thinking of two
things. I was amazed to find that the print of magazine article titles can
be huge. I think it's cool to find text printed in a curve just for the
sake of making the formatting fancy or to curve around a picture or also
found on the labels of LP's. Oh, another thing just popped into my mind: I
have seen maps of various countries in books, and I like to find as many
cities mentioned as I can. The place names can be completely horizontal as
any print on a page, angled left or right or sometimes vertical, causing me
to shift the camera or actually reorient the book to read, depending on the
orientation of the place name.
Debby
At 07:32 PM 7/16/2012, Catherine Thomas wrote
>Hi, Everyone,
>As most of you know, I work as a braille transcriber. Today, working with
>a print document and the Optacon, I read a complex table. It was relly
>pretty, visually speaking--nice neat columns with headings at the top of
>each one with all kinds of neat separation lines. I could appreciate it's
>visual appeal and it made me sad that I had to modify it to convey the
>same information in braille.
>
>It got me to thinking about the many images I've seen over the years
>because of the Optacon. To name a few: a crosword puzzle grid; a New York
>Times want ad; entries in a big fat telephone book; enties in dictionary;
>the various cute shapes of print bullets; bi-directional printing phrases
>running at 90 degrees to the rest of the print; entries in a TV guide and
>other TV listings; differences in the shapes of the letters in diffeerent
>fonts or typefaces; a music staff; labels in diagrams, etc. etc. etc.
>
>All these things I've seen with the Optacon and thousands of other things
>besides. For this aspect of the Optacon, I am truly grateful.
>Catherine
>
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