[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on readability presentation
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 09:26:41 -0700 (PDT)
Following the overwhelming consensus it was not a readability issue, I
submitted
it as was. I do have concerns that audio listeners, emergent readers and such
will lose meaning (or worse, frustrate and lose) the struggling readers, but I
respect leaving things intact, too.
Thanks for all the input!
Valerie
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From: Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, September 4, 2012 5:29:54 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on readability presentation
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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