[bksvol-discuss] Re: To Pratik About Fonts
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:06:19 -0800 (PST)
Hi Monica,
I wouldn't worry about it. As John said, the important
thing is to eliminate the scannos. If a person can't
see what's italics and what's bold, he/she can't be
expected to put them in. Italics in a book either scan
as a normal word, if it's only one word, or it scans
as unreadable, which is why the recipes in a couple of
books need to be rescanned, and why some books that
involve correspondence or have a lot of paragraphs
italicized need to be validated by a sighted person.
smile
Cindy
--- Monica Willyard <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Pratik, I'm glad you brought up the posibility of
> future improvements
> in the Daisy format and conversion process. It
> wasn't something I
> had spent time considering. I have never seen print
> or colors, so I
> was only vaguely aware of fonts until Cindy
> mentioned them after I
> joined Bookshare. I had started converting
> everything to the 10
> point size because Jaws skips text at larger font
> sizes, and I don't
> always know when it's skipping things. It seemed
> like an effective
> solution since the Bookshare books weren't retaining
> a lot of font
> information. I can see how it would detract from
> future book
> technologies though. I'm not sure how to find a
> good balance since I
> can't effectively validate text that I don't know is
> present. Do you
> have any suggestions for a good compromise? I don't
> have a Braille
> display, so whatever I do has to work well with
> speech. Thanks for
> any thoughts you can share.
>
> Monica Willyard
>
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