[bksvol-discuss] Re: Characters

  • From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:41:32 -0700

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>
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>
>  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-----
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>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
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>>
>> 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
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>> 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.
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