[bksvol-discuss] Re: HP7 and dashes
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:59:51 -0700 (PDT)
Cool. Thanks for the info.
Cindy
--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cindy, the lines of dashes preceeding print page
> numbers only show up in the
> Braille files, not in the Daisy files, so they won't
> be heard. They are
> added by the Braille translator. Every book since
> the Braille translator was
> upgraded has them.. Since Braile pages are of a
> different length from print
> pages, they are used to show where the old print
> page ends and the new one
> begins, rather than leaving a virtually blank line
> with a page number at the
> end of it in the middle of the Braille page.
>
> Evan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 9:42 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: HP7 and dashes
>
>
> >I picked up the print book yesterday. There is an
> > asterisk on each side of the page number. I've
> > validated other books that have that; they come
> out
> > not as asterisks but as various things, e.g.,
> dashs, a
> > black dot, some other mark--and usually not on
> both
> > sides of the number. I always delete them and just
> > leave the number. I assume that listeners or
> Braille
> > readers wouldn't want those things.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> > --- Jamie Yates <jamieyates@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Two people I know have downloaded the brf version
> of
> >> Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and they say
> it
> >> has a line of dashes with each page number. Is
> that
> >> something that happens in the conversion process
> to
> >> Braille? Or is it something that is supposed to
> be
> >> there? I haven't actually read the print book
> myself
> >> so I don't know what the print book looks like. I
> >> haven't read the book at all for that
> matter,smile,
> >> but I will soon now that I have the audio
> version.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Jamie in Michigan
> >> Vengeance in Death - J.D. Robb
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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