[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning poetry for Bookshare
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 18:42:29 -0700
Hi Shelley,
I answered your previous question about this, but maybe my message didn't
get through. You had all of the right settings. Most important is to keep
line endings in the reading settings dialogue. Partial columns kept, and
perhaps enable column recognition, if the book is set up that way.
Other than that, the rest is pretty much up to the proofreader, and ideally,
the proofreader should have a copy of the book to check that Kurzweil didn't
get confused about where to end lines, which it sometimes does.
If you are editing the book, you want to insert an asterisk on the line
preceding each stanza, so that the reader knows that there was a blank line
there, since Bookshare's conversion tool will remove the blank lines.
However, and I can't remember how this is done, K1000 often inserts a blank
line where there shouldn't be one in poetry. You can tell when this has
happened, but I can't remember how. It's been too long since I processed a
book of poetry scanned with Kurzweil.
Happy scanning, and I hope that helps some.
Mayrie
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Scanning poetry for Bookshare
Hi you all, I haven't seen any comments on this, smile.
Are there references or places I could go to learn how to scan poetry so
that it will be kind of readable and enjoyable by Bookshare.
I have a book of poems from one of my former students, she will be 93 this
year, and a very talented and classy lady, smile, and I want to make sure
that it gets into the collection in the shape she would want it to be in.
What am I supposed to tell Kurzweil to make the scanning of the poetry
easier.
Thanks.
Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he
does it without destroying something else. -John Updike, writer (1932-2009)
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