interesting. A "c' acute? I've only seen vowels with the acute Are uou sue it's not an e or o acute? Cindy On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Gary Petraccaro <garypet130@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Nope we're not. <grin> Had it checked and it was a c acute. It shows up > in Polish > if I understand what I'm reading. ----- Original Message ----- From: > "Sandra Ryan" <sjryan2@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 3:35 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Characters > > > I wonder if we're talking about a c cedilla. That's in the symbols list >> in >> Word, accessed through JAWS with Insert-4. Lots of the symbols are >> there--though I don't remember that particular O. >> >> Sandi >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese >> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 12:35 PM >> 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. >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2014.0.4570 / Virus Database: 3950/7517 - Release Date: 05/18/14 >> >> 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. > >