[bksvol-discuss] Re: Special Character Handling

  • From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 14:06:43 -0700

Hi Bob,

I think that most books containing foreign words represent them with their
accent marks.  Unfortunately, often those marks get lost during scanning and
OCR.  So, the short answer is that if the marks were there in the print copy
of the book, and I believe that generally, if not always, they are, no we
aren't changing the text of the book.

That's my experience anyway.

Mayrie

 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob W
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 1:55 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Special Character Handling

Isn't that changing the book's contents?

Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 3:21 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Special Character Handling


Hi Kim and Gary!

Also, foreign words aren't really correct without the accents.

Debby

At 01:06 AM 10/5/2011, Kim Friedman wrote
>Hi, Gary, you don't have to insert stuff, but if you want it to be really
>spiffy, why not take the trouble to do that so that words like fiancee,
>souffle, and puree have that E acute accent. It looks very nice and it
>shows up in Braille as a dot 4. Regards, Kim Friedman.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary Petraccaro
>Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 5:58 AM
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Special Character Handling
>
>I didn't know whether they were supposed to be inserted or not.
>Thanks.
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: <mailto:kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>Kim Friedman
>>To: <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 7:59 PM
>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Special Character Handling
>>
>>Hi, if you hit insert plus the number 4 on your computer there are signs
>>which you can insert into a text, especially umlaut, certain acute
>>accents, etc. I have a message which I can send you because the book I'm
>>proofreading requires certain accents. Can you write me back  if you're
>>interested. Email me off list and I'll be glad to send this stuff your
>>way. Regards, Kim Friedman.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary Petraccaro
>>Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 7:58 AM
>>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Special Character Handling
>>
>>My current book has accented speech with special characters being
>>used--umlauted as, es, and an i.  Where does the manual deal with this
>>and does anyone just happen to know what proper handling happens to be?
>>Thanks.
>>
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