[bksvol-discuss] Re: Italics
- From: "Denise Wagner" <denisecwagner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 13:12:48 -0500
Thank you Evan. I donât know where I got the idea the italics were converted
to non-italic text after I submitted the final copy, so I havenât been focusing
on any italics in the proof. Thank you so much for clearing that up â I have
learned something extremely important!
Thanks everyone for taking the time to reply with your input. Iâm on the right
track now.
Denise
From: Evan Reese
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 12:43 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Italics
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
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