[bksvol-discuss] Re: Quotation marks
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 09:26:50 -0500
Hi Kim!
Out of ignorance that there was such a thing as British punctuation, I
changed all of the single quotes to double ones when I proofread a while
back as we are used to here, and I didn't get in trouble, but I probably
won't do it again, now that I know better. You'd better e-mail Carrie and
ask her for sure about the policy on that, since the braille displays don't
like the single quotes, since I don't know about policy on that, just that
we are not to change text, including typos, which I find when reading over
my scans. I groan when I find a typo, because I'd love to change it, but
know it would be tampering with the published work, so I leave them and put
a note in with my submission saying that page so-and-so has such-and-such a
typo.
Debby
At 08:01 AM 5/23/2010, Kim Friedman wrote
Hi, folks, I just finished proofreading a book for Deborah Murray called A
Secret and Unlawful Killing by Cora Harrison. It was written and published
in Great Britain and has there particular type of quotation marks which
I'm told don't translate as quotes in Braille. My initial desire was to
replace those quotes with those that looked good in Braille. I didn't do
this because the submitter informed me that those quotes should remain how
they looked in the printed text. I wrote her and have subsequently written
to Carrie Karnos to get bookshare's policy on this. I've checked in the
book for approval and hope it will be added to the collection. I would be
interested in your thoughts on this. I recognize that it is my job as
proofreader to remove scanos if any, make sure the format is okay, all
pagination and text present and accounted for and to muck about with the
text as little as possible if the submitter did a great job, otherwise I
could strip headers, add Roman numerals if needed for the prefatory pages,
etc. Do write me back and tell me what you think given your knowledge and
experience. Thanks and best regards, Kim Friedman.
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