Thanks Lori, Lissi suggested the same thing a while back and I had forgotten about it. It sounds like a good compromise to me.
Evan-----Original Message----- From: Lori Castner
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 4:23 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Characters How about adding a "Submitter's note" at the beginning of the book which states that there are many words that contain macrons, but that these words do not translate properly into .brf. Therefore, you are omitting the macron symbols. Then explain that the most frequently used words in the text that contain macrons are the following: list sample words. That is sort of a middle ground fix, but it would alert readers to the presence of the macron symbol, and its usage. Lori C. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 10:35 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Characters Don't know about the c acute, but the o with a line over it is a macron. There's a chart of special characters including the macrons in an article in Wikipedia on the Pali language. The problem is that those characters will not reproduce in braille. There's a book on Bookshare containing Pali words with macrons in them, and those characters are blank in the brf version of the book. So what came out is a book with numerous words with one or more blank spaces in them where the vowells with macrons are supposed to be. It doesn't make for a very pleasant reading experience. I am debating whether to even bother with these diacritical marks. I've got some good books on Buddhism here that contain these macrons, among other diacritical marks in the Pali words, and I keep vacillating on whether to try to reproduce them or not. The point is to communicate the content after all, and if the braille translator is going to interfere with that, then I would just as soon leave them out. On the other hand, I really want to reproduce books as faithfully as I can for Bookshare. So I don't know what I'm going to do with them. Evan-----Original Message----- From: Gary Petraccaro
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 9:55 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Characters I'm looking for two characters. One is an o with a straight line over it, as in a Japanese No play. The other is an c acute. I have checked an ascii chart for the second, but I'm not sure that my software represents it. I want to double check that. The o I have no idea what to search for. Thanks. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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