[bksvol-discuss] Re: Different fonts in a book
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:27:58 -0600
HEAR HEAR!!!!
Sue S.
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From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 1:43 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Different fonts in a book
This argument seems to rear its ugly head again and again. We certainly
understand the limitation of the current conversion process. However there
is certainly the possibility that These books will be reprocessed at some
point from the original source (i.e., RTF) to Braille and DAISY with the
formatting changes intact. So, there's no reason why formatting (including
font size and attributes) should not be preserved. I for one, do appreciate
Cindy's and other volunteers' efforts to preserve as much of the formatting
as they can. So please keep on doing what you have been doing.
Regards,
Pratik
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grandma Cindy
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 2:18 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Different fonts in a book
That's interesting information, too. But re your last
sentence, I think you should do what makes you
conmfortable in your own reading. It's not necessary
to adjust just because the different fonts are there.
I've noticed that in some sentences the flow of the
sentence causes a word to be emphasized whether it is
italicised or not. In some of my validations, it's
that emphasis that I mentally hear in my reading that
cause me to look at the book to see if the word is in
italics, and it is. But it isn't really necessary,
except I suppose the author doesn't want to take any
chances that a reader might not mentally hear it that
way.
Cindy
--- Monica Willyard <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cindy, one of the cool things about using rtf and
> Microsoft Word is
> that we actually can have our screenreader use a
> different voice for
> bold or italic words and headings. We can also have
> the screenreader
> use a different voice for quoted text or text that
> changes fonts or
> colors. The problem is that the files we get from
> Bookshare are in
> Daisy format, not RTF, and don't seem to have the
> special formatting
> in them. I can still have my screenreader speak
> quoted text in a
> different voice though, and that helps with dialog
> sometimes. I
> can't speak for all screenreaders, but I know that
> JAWS does a nice
> job of speaking changes in fonts and such in Word
> and other
> programs. Even so, this feature is something I
> think many of us
> reserve for proofreading and may not turn on during
> reading for
> pleasure since knowing a font's name doesn't tell me
> what it looks
> like. I haven't bothered with it in my submissions
> because I didn't
> think it would translate into the Daisy format. For
> compatibility
> with speech, I've been putting my fonts in both
> submissions and
> validations as Times New Roman, 10 points. When I
> get the Daisy
> format of my books, it shows up as Arial, 10 points.
> If we find
> that fonts are being retained, I will have to work
> harder to notice
> things like fonts and won't adjust them for comfort
> in my own reading.
>
> Monica Willyard
>
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