[bksvol-discuss] Re: Poetry mangled
- From: james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 08:34:08 -0400
Hi Cindy,
I downloaded some Robert Frost and couldn't find any of the stanza breaks.
I know it was messed up because I had seen some of the same poems from
other sources. That's why I took Eerdmans Book of Christian Poetry or
whatever the title is, then almost immediately returned it. I would have
been wasting time.
Jim
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Amy and I join you in disappointment. When I first validated some Chinese
and other poetry I didn't know that tabs were deleted. Then, last year, I
tried resetting margins, but from what Amy said when she downloaded the
Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling, that didn't work either. I think that by
hitting return at the end of lines, one can retain the "sound" of the
poems, but one cannot, it seems, retain the shape that the poets want. I
didn't know at that time that skipped lines get closed and that one should
use asterisks, so verses disappear as verses and choruses and, in the case
of the Kipling, some dramatization dialogue must be crowded together, too.
big sigh
Cindy
--- On Thu, 8/7/08, james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> From: james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: my disappointment
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 4:02 AM
> Hi,
> I am most disappointed that when someone submits poetry, no
> matter how good
> of a job they do to get it correct, the software mangles
> it. Formatting is
> important with poetry. That's why I read poetry from
> Web braille. And I'm
> sad that we have so many mangled poetry books on Bookshare.
>
> Jim
>
> James D Homme, Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810
>
> "The difference between those who get what they wish
> for and those who
> don't is action. Therefore, every action you take is a
> complete
> success,regardless of the results." -- Jerrold Mundis
> Highmark internal only: For usability and accessibility:
> http://highwire.highmark.com/sites/iwov/hwt093/
>
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