[bksvol-discuss] Re: Mangling poetry for Bookshare
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:28:39 -0700 (PDT)
Oh, boy. You have quite a job ahead of you. I don't
suppose you'd be allowed to omit the line numbers? I
guess theyd be necessary if the book is for a student
at school or college, and I suppose it would be
against copyright rules? You're wonderful for taking
that job on.
Cindy
--- Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Volunteer Friends,
>
> Voices, I'm hearing voices!
>
> Just doing my job, validating Tolkien poetry, when I
> swear The professor
> murmured in a voice whose cultivated restraint
> didn't disguise his outrage.
> "It isn't meant to sound that way!"
>
> I want to please him and Bookshare and daisy readers
> and braille readers and
> readers looking at the poems visually, really I do,
> but I believe preserving
> the content, cadence, the stream of thought and
> graceful formatting for all
> readers requires about 60 more years of ingenius
> invention and development
> of our tools.
>
> I hope all of the many geniuses in our volunteer
> group and associated with
> it will take full advantage of any medication on the
> market to manage their
> disorders so they may make the fullest use of their
> talents, solving my
> poetry delimma even sooner than I project.
>
> I'm being silly, not sarcastic. Bookshare has
> exceeded my fondest fantasies
> of having access to books that were locked in print.
> It's that this poetry,
> no matter how careful the scanner, validator and
> admin are, will be awkward
> reading with blame to nobody.
>
> Not only am I at a loss as how besst to format
> verses which use 3 different
> left margins, but I'm inserting numbers every 5
> lines. These numbers are
> offset to the left so a sighted reader can use them
> like a ruler to quickly
> find specific lines of the poem for study or
> quoting, etc. These numbers are
> so far to the left, that the print reader can
> visually tune them out and
> read the poem without the numbers intruding.
>
> Not so for a braille reader, especially using a
> continuous line refreshable
> braille display. They will see lines like, "hand in
> hand, 15 small
> footprints in the golden sand," and forgetmenots 35
> red daisies" If you're
> reading with Jaws. how do you like the way he
> pronounced forget me nots,
> almost like "fordget minnots? If you download the
> book and listen to the
> poem, you'll be jolted every 5 lines by the
> intrusion of a number in to an
> otherwise sweet, tender, wistful stream of words.
>
> Some of you are way ahead of me and can cleverly
> tell your computers to skip
> the numbers, and reverse the order, too.
>
> This isn't a complaint. It's me noticing my
> limitations in preparing a book.
> I know how lucky I am to be having this discussion.
> Part of what keeps me
> spinning so enthusiastically and part of what
> propels evolution are the
> unsolved puzzles. Wrinkles and all, serious Tolkien
> readers are going to
> have a delightful time with this book. Once it's
> approved, they will be able
> to get a copy as out of thin air.
>
> Please share any poetry formatting tips to help me
> prepare the best possible
> file.
>
> That's all of my hot air. You can go back to
> selecting books from thin air
> whose quality keeps getting better. Happy reading!
>
> Always with love,
>
> Lissi
>
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