I'm sorry but I don't have the faintest idea. If the POET group mentioned on
the Bookshare website is still active, they might find it a challenging
exercise.
From: Gary Petraccaro <garypet130@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 6:40 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Day After Judgment
A friend read that one to me and described the type layout. It is in one of
the anthologies I intend doing. Any ideas how to approach that?
----- Original Message ----- From: William Korn (Redacted sender
"willythekorn" for DMARC) To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday,
March 09, 2016 12:10 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Day After Judgment
Be glad you're not doing Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination". He got
extremely creative with his fonts in places. And he liked it so much he
extended the practice to his later books.
Bill Korn
From: Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2016 7:57 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Day After Judgment
Yeah I know, that’s a bummer. That’s why I almost always use the
FineReader engine. If it wasn’t for FineReader’s weird case problems, I’d never
use the ScanSoft engine at all. The only other solution, as has been said, is
to use the FineReader engine and then bring the book into MS Word and fix up
the case issues. Evan From: Gary Petraccaro Sent: Wednesday, March 09,
2016 2:11 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re:
The Day After Judgment It's just that I have no way of ensuring that what's
all in caps gets translated properly. The Fine Reader Engine takes mixed size
uppercase and makes it cap first letter and the rest lowercase. The other
engine does the caps fine as far as I can tell, but has more other errors. I'm
going to have to do the book twice. I have The Day After Judgment and Black
Easter. This just isn't going to be anything but a slog.
----- Original Message ----- From: William Korn (Redacted sender
"willythekorn" for DMARC) To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday,
March 06, 2016 4:47 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Day After Judgment
That's a great book. I was going to scan the larger book - "The Devil's Day" -
of which "The Day After Judgement" is a part, except it's already in the
library.
In regard to your question, I have had similar problems with books that choose
to have a lot of text in italics. The problem of rendering text into all caps
is comparatively easy if you're working in Microsoft Word - it's
"Format"-"Change Case"-"Upper Case". My personal opinion is to try and
preserve all caps (or italics) in a text, even if it takes a little more work
to make it happen, as some screen/text readers will read all caps in a
different tone than regular text (the Victor Reader Stream, for example).
Bill Korn
From: Gary Petraccaro <garypet130@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, March 6, 2016 1:16 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] The Day After Judgment
I just started work on James Blish's The Day After Judgment. The
problem is the typographical games the author has decided to play. Some text
is all in uppercase. The ocr engine has decided to make it mixed because the
larger capital letters apparently give it fits. I can switch engines and see
what I get, but should I. To me this may be valuable for a reader, but not a
listener, but that reader might not get much value from reading this in
anything but print. I'm left in a quandry. I would appreciate comments. Thanks.
