[bksvol-discuss] Re: Need Help with Footnote Symbols
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:52:19 -0700
Ah, so that's what the daggers look like. Thanks, Gerald.
But that still leaves the question as to what the Bookshare software will do
with the daggers. Will it recognize them? If not, what does it do with
symbols it doesn't recognize? Does it put in some generic character for all
unrecognized characters, or does it just dump them as junk? If it doesn't,
what should I put in their place?
I don't want books I've spent a lot of time on looking like blank because I
tried to make the book as close to the original as possible only to find out
later that I wasted energy putting in characters the Bookshare software
couldn't handle.
I have to put in these characters because my OpenBook didn't recognize them.
Does K1000 do any better with such stuff?
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald Hovas
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:37 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need Help with Footnote Symbols
Evan,
My guess would be that the first is an asterisk, the second is a dagger, and
the third is a double dagger. You can get the daggers using JAWS by pressing
Insert-4.
Gerald
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:26 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Need Help with Footnote Symbols
This book I've scanned has a few pages with multiple footnotes. The first
one is denoted by what my OpenBook identifies as an asterisk, although the
corresponding footnote at the bottom of the page is marked with what my
OpenBook identifies as a bullet. If there is a second footnote on the same
page, my OpenBook marks it with a letter t, and the corresponding footnote at
the bottom of the page is also marked with a letter t. There are a couple of
instances where there is a third footnote on the same page, this one my
Openbook marks with an x, and the corresponding footnote at the bottom of the
page is also marked with an x, although it puts the 'unrecognized text marker'
I selected to show that it isn't sure about that.
I think the only reason OB marks the first footnote with an asterisk in the
text is because it seems to decide that that is the best choice when a symbol
that kinda looks like a star is right up against text, but at the bottom of the
page, it seems to realize that a bullet is more appropriate when in front of
text. To me with my Optacon, it really does look round, and not like a star.
But my question is about the others: The one my OB marks as t does look like
a t except that the horizontal line is too long for a loer-case t - a cross,
perhaps? The one marked as an x looks like two of these 'crosses'? joined
together, or a vertical line with two horizontal lines, one near the top and
one near the bottom.
Firstly, could someone tell me what these symbols are called? And secondly,
what should I put in that the Bookshare software won't zorch? I need to be
able to differentiate between multiple footnotes on the same page, so I guess I
could just put in star 1, star 2, etc. Is that what most people do?
On most pages there is just one footnote denoted by the bullet. Do I need to
substitute something else for these?
Thanks for any info.
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