[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare Daisy files maintain Bolding, Font point sizes, Italics, and more

  • From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:37:17 -0800

Hi, Cindy, now this is unknown territory to me. Mind you, it seems with a
computer you have a plethora of choices for the font style, but in this
you'd know about which are easier to read. I'd think the more ornate or
flowery styles would be hard on the eyes, even though they might look
terribly artistic. I remember futzing about with the Optacon and found I
could tell one letter from another if it was in block letters. I didn't care
much for sans-serif (sic) printing because all letters were fat in some
places and thin in others. No wonder I preferred to stick with Braille!
Anyhow, the Optacon is great for people who want to use it, but for me, I
preferred to do without it, me being an impatient soul. The main thing is
will the scanner be able to decipher the style and make sense of it.
Regards, Kim.

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:18 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare Daisy files maintain Bolding, Font
point sizes, Italics, and more

In the past I tried to match the fonts in the print as closely as possible
with fonts available to me in Word, but I learned that some of the Fancy
ones just don't translate translate--I assume in braille but maybe in other
things, too, so I just use times Roman, or may New York or some of the more
common fonts that approximate what I'm seeing. I didn't know Arial was
desirable; I thought Times roman was the preferred font, generally. I do
enlarge and bold and italicize letters and words, though, if they're that
way in the book.
Cindy

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--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare Daisy files maintain Bolding, 
> Font point sizes, Italics, and more
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 8:19 PM Thanks Judy. It's helpful to 
> know where to focus. I thought the font face was retained from our rtf 
> files and have been trying rather frantically to make sure the chapter 
> font face stays consistent. In my current book, some scanned as Arial 
> and others scanned as Times New Roman. The glossary is a table in an 
> entirely different font, and I was about to type it in to make it 
> behave.
> 
> I remember the staff discussing the issue with us last year because 
> they wanted sighted users to be able to adjust fonts to a size and 
> type that works best for them. I never looked at the style sheet to 
> see what they had done with that. I assumed they used the font face 
> from the book. I wonder why they chose Arial as the default. I know 
> you probably don't know the answer. My mind is just wandering. I'm 
> also somewhat amused at how I have talked for so long about something 
> I will never understand.
> 
> 
> Oh how I wish they still sold Opticons. I'd buy one in an
> instant so I could
> physically touch/see books and the shapes of the letters.
> I'd tackle the
> book I have here just to see the difference between a
> normal letter and the
> version in italics. We had an itinerant teacher during
> second grade who had
> an Opticon. She taught me to use it for an hour each day
> and then left at
> the end of the year. I never got to spend time alone with
> it exploring the
> books I wanted to read... Hardy Boys adventures! :D I wish
> whoever owned the
> patent to the machine would sell it to someone who would
> make a new model.
> 
> 
> Monica Willyard
> "The best way to predict the future is to create it." --
> Peter Drucker
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