[bksvol-discuss] OT: Who's who
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 00:38:26 -0800 (PST)
chuckle
Cindy
--- EVAN REESE <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Sue,
>
> Since I know you have a sense of humor, I will say
> that while I cannot speak for lissi, I think I can
> at least say with a fairly high degree of assurance
> that she is happy that you are not me. <grin>
>
> Evan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: siss52
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:46 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Returning Member
> Intro and Question
>
>
> Yes, I have, Jill. I'm not Evan though. (smile)
>
> Sue S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jill O'Connell
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:33 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Returning Member
> Intro and Question
>
>
> Evan, When I delete the spaces between periods, my
> braille display shows this as dots 4-6. I may be
> wrong about this but I don't think I have ever seen
> the dot 3 used as an elipsis in a bookshare brf
> copy. Have you? Jill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: EVAN REESE
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:15 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Returning Member
> Intro and Question
>
>
> Certainly, the Bookshare braille translator does
> not delete the spaces between periods. I've seen
> countless examples of this. Nor does the braille
> translator in my Pac Mate delete the spaces. In
> these cases, ellipses only appear the way they
> should in braille if the periods have no spaces
> between them. Apparently, in the cases I'm familiar
> with, the people who write braille translation
> software expect the periods to be without spaces
> between them.
>
> Also, the OCR engines in K1000 and OpenBook are
> ambiguous about the matter. I've seen periods with
> and without spaces in the same book, and sometimes
> two periods with no spaces, followed by a space and
> then another period, or every other combination of
> periods and spaces.
>
> Given all this, I remove the spaces when I
> encounter them.
>
> Evan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mickey
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:07 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Returning Member
> Intro and Question
>
>
> Usually, in print, the elipsis (three dots)
> are spaced. I leave it that way, because it's the
> way it should be, and because any braille
> translation program with delete the spaces.
>
> Mickey
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:58 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Returning
> Member Intro and Question
>
>
> The spaces are not there in print.
>
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> Subj:
> [bksvol-discuss] Returning Member Intro and
> Question
> Date:
> 1/7/2009 12:43:03 PM Eastern Standard Time
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> eliza.l.cooper@xxxxxxxxx
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> Hi List,
> I was on this list years ago, and thought
> I'd rejoin for a while to
> see what the volunteer community is talking
> about. (I'm also currently
> unemployed, so I guess you could say I've
> got the time). Anyway, I'm
> Eliza from New York City.
> I've also got a question, and though this
> is a pretty trivial
> detail, I've wondered about it forever.
> When you see an elipsis in
> text, like when a speaker is cut off by
> another character, often I see
> the three periods and the close quotation
> mark all separated by spaces
> (so it would be . . . "). I sometimes take
> the interveneing spaces
> out so that the last word, the elipsis and
> the close quote are all
> connected, because I think this is always
> how it appears in braille.
> Is this correct? In print, are the spaces
> always present, or is this
> something OpenBook is doing?
> Thanks,
> Eliza
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