I agree with Judy on this. I hadn't thought about the < and > enclosing html tags, but that could possibly cause a problem in some editors such as microsoft word.
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Pavi,A thought regarding this. Angle brackets are used to encase html tags. Programs like Word sometimes recognize them as such, and browsers certainly do. What happens when you have angle brackets to encase text in this fashion when you create an html file from a Daisy extraction? I've been using square brackets like [ and ] just for this reason.Judy s. Pavi Mehta wrote:Thanks for making that important clarification Bob!And to respond to Devorah -- angle brackets was what Carrie put forward as a standardized method. If there is a preference among the volunteers to use square brackets instead I don't think she would have a problem with changing that at this point -- but ultimately we'd like to put forward one or the other as the standard, and not deviate from it.All good things, Pavi Mehta Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare Benetech 480 S. California Ave., Suite 201 Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA Phone: +1 650 644-3459 pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx www.benetech.orgThe Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity A Nonprofit Organization-----Original Message-----From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of BobSent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:07 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dealing with Photos & CaptionsThose using screen readers will note that their screen reader says "less" for the left angle bracket, and "greater" for the right angle bracket.Bob----- Original Message ----- From: "Pavi Mehta" <pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:02 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dealing with Photos & CaptionsHi Marilyn and Lori, Thanks for writing for clarification -- here's an example: <Photo caption: The author outside his childhood home, 1978>The keystroke used for the angle brackets are the shift key with the comma key for the open bracketAnd the shift key with the period key for the close bracket. Hope this helps! Beautiful day, Pavi Mehta Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare Benetech 480 S. California Ave., Suite 201 Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA Phone: +1 650 644-3459 pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx www.benetech.org The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity A Nonprofit Organization -----Original Message-----From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marilyn BeasleySent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:14 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dealing with Photos & Captions Hi, Pavi. I don't understand where the actual words "Photo caption:" go -- inside or outside the angle brackets? Could you show me a small sample? Marilyn On Jul 16, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Pavi Mehta wrote:Hi All, In a recent exchange with a volunteer, the question of how to deal with photos and captions came up. I talked to Carrie to see if she had a particular approach that we could then try and standardize across the board (with such things there tend to be no right or wrong methods but it would be great to slowly but surely try to develop a uniformity of approach) Here are the guidelines Carrie put forward for such cases: * Remove the photos * Retain the caption text. * Separate it from the rest of the text with angle brackets <> * Precede the text of the caption with "Photo caption:" to make it clear what the text is. Let me know if there are any questions regarding this. Also -- if there are other areas where you think we need to formulate a standardized approach please let me know -- and we can start working on them. (These sort of things are really helpful to start clarifying as we work on making the scanning and validation manual more comprehensive and complete). All good things, Pavi Mehta Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare Benetech 480 S. 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