[bksvol-discuss] Re: New proofreading requirements: quotes, ellipses, and dashes

  • From: "Deborah Murray" <murray.deborah@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:02:57 -0400

Hi Evan,

 

From what Madeleine said yesterday, it seems this is only what our .rtf files 
need to look like in order for the BS conversion to work properly. I guess time 
will tell.

 

Deborah

 

 

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 12:32 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: New proofreading requirements: quotes, ellipses, 
and dashes

 

Hmmm, you’ve got your ellipses with no space before them but one after them. 
Looks terrible! –)

Evan

 

 

From: Madeleine Linares <mailto:Madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  

Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 11:27 AM

To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: New proofreading requirements: quotes, ellipses, 
and dashes

 

Hi all, 

 

Susan—great point! Here are examples:

 

Please do this: Sometimes this rule can be confusing…

OR:

Sometimes this rule can be confusing….

OR:

Sometimes this rule can be confusing… but I think I’m getting the hang of it!

 

Please DO NOT add an extra dot/period to the end of an ellipsis. If an author 
has used one, please leave it as is.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Best, 

 

Madeleine Linares

Volunteer Coordinator

Bookshare, a Benetech Initiative

650-644-3459

volunteer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

 

 

 

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Susan Lumpkin
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 9:48 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: New proofreading requirements: quotes, ellipses, 
and dashes

 

It would help if she could send examples, don’t you think, Cindy? Hopefully she 
will!  

 

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy Rosenthal
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 1:48 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: New proofreading requirements: quotes, ellipses, 
and dashes

 

Gary, are you sure?  It looks to me as if you have a space  between the 
ellipsis and  the  period.   perhaps I'm misunderstanding Madeleine's new 
directives; that's why I asked. I thught she said n space so I'm asking if, 
then, it should be ....

Cindy

 

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Gary Petraccaro <garypet130@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<Duh>  If there are 4 periods, then it should be this... .

or ....

I've got a book ready to go up and I want to fix this. Thanks.

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Madeleine Linares <mailto:Madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  

To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:41 PM

Subject: [bksvol-discuss] New proofreading requirements: quotes, ellipses, and 
dashes

 

Hi all, 

 

As I’ve mentioned before we’re doing some in-house testing about what the 
Bookshare converter can and cannot handle. It’s been through many iterations 
and no one really knows exactly what it can or can’t do (engineers included!). 
We want to make sure that volunteers and staff are all on the same page and 
aware of all changes as we learn about them. We’re finally getting some answers 
and I wanted to share some things I learned below. Please feel free to contact 
me with questions.

 

Ellipses: do NOT put a space before the ellipsis (no space between the word and 
the dots). Do NOT put a period after, and therefore do not put a space before 
the period. If there’s a word after the ellipsis, please put a space between 
the last dot and the word. 

 

Quotes: all quotes, smart or otherwise, are converted to simple quotes. No need 
to change them.

 

Em-dashes are always converted to double dashes when going to Daisy. Double 
dashes are preserved as double dashes. Single dashes are preserved as single 
dashes. 

 

This is all new information to me too, so I’m very glad I was able to ask about 
this stuff. Going forward, please use the above info when proofreading.

 

Best, 

 

Madeleine Linares

Volunteer Coordinator

Bookshare, a Benetech Initiative

650-644-3459

volunteer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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