For braille at least, the letter will be in italics, so there's no need to add anything to it. And, for those reading with voice in K1000, the italicized portion will be in a slightly higher voice to set it off from the unitalicized text. So there's no need to add anything for that case either. I guess what I'm saying is that I don't think it should be necessary to do anything special to identify the letter if it is already set off by being italicized in the book. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: Denise Wagner To: bksvol-discuss Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 12:26 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Italics Hi all, I know thereâs been discussion lately on diary and journal entries and my take away has been that if itâs intuitive, then leave it alone. My question is this: I am a sighted reader. When I read a passage where, say, the main character has received a letter, that letter verbiage is italicized to set it apart from the rest of the text. This tells me this is the letter. How do I treat that? Do I put in brackets before and after the passage identifying the beginning and end? Or do I assume the screen reader or braille reader (the human) will be able to tell itâs the letter. I hope my question makes sense. Thanks, Denise