[bksvol-discuss] Re: Limited Comments on Bookshare Manual
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:46:17 -0400
Are you saying that the 3 periods should be together, preceded and followed by
a space, except where the last period is followed by a quote?
Thanks.
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From: Mayrie ReNae
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 1:50 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Limited Comments on Bookshare Manual
Hi Lori,
I can comment only educatedly on one of your points. The elipsis should be
preceded and/or followed by a space unless a punctuation mark precedes or
follows the elipsis immediately. That said, as long as spaces do not occur
within the elipsis, the braille translation software will render the elipsis
accurately. The spaces before and after the elipsis are only rules that need to
be followed if the braille code is intended to be taken into consideration.
Hope that clarifies at least that point.
Mayrie
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lori Castner
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:53 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Limited Comments on Bookshare Manual
Hi, Scott and Everyone,
I am going to make just a few comments on the content of the volunteer manual.
In 4 I the discussion of ellipses, I am puzzled by the instructions. The
issue has come up over and over on this list and I thought the last consensus
was that when an ellipses occurs midsentence, the ellipses should be preceeded
and followed by a space. I will follow the instructions in the manual and hope
the translation software will handle them correctly. The instructions say to
not include a space before a mid-sentence ellipses, but to put a space only
after the ellipses and before the following word.
In 4 K regarding bullets, the manual says that it is not necessary to change
a tab following a bullet into a space. Does the translation software now
change tabs into spaces?
In the sections on ellipses and bullets the text gives exampoles. In these
examples each line is preceeded by a number of spaces. Personally, I wish
those spaces were not present. Whhen I read those lines by moving through
character by character to see what is happening the spaces are just a nuisance.
I never could access the Section When and How to Reject a Book
In the section on How to renew a Book the instructions refer to clicking the
Volunteer Home link on the left side of the taskbar--that is a visual
orientation.
Under D5, volunteers are instructed to notify Bookshare if they want a hold
removed from a book. I thought that a book would not languish-as the manual
states-but would be removed if the book sat on the checkout page for two weeks.
I wish I could make more comments, but I do not have the fortitude to
continue struggling with the navigation of this manual; for me, it is too
painful.
I would rather spend my time proofreading.
Lori C.
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