[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on readability presentation
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 06:29:17 -0400
Fairly strong disagreement, here. Styles are what make
different periods what they are. I could change all of the punctuation in
Melville's books to conform to current usage, but it wouldn't be him to some
extent and the book would lose its flavor. I'm currently doing some
80-year-old science fiction and it could be changed but you wouldn't be reading
that story once I had finished.
----- Original Message -----
From: Valerie Maples
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Alisa Moore ; Carrie Karnos ; Madeleine
Linares
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 4:55 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question on readability presentation
I know occasionally allowances are made for slight changes to the print to
allow for better readability. I am doing a very old book where instead of
bolding words to be important/emphasized they are instead separating each
letter with a hyphen to make it more dramatic. An example in this book was the
word wonderful, which was instead represented as: "w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-1". It
would be wonderful (no pun intended) if we had permission to remove the hyphens
and unify the word and instead place it in bold print. Would this be an
allowable exception to improve readability/listening?
Thanks!
Valerie
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