[bksvol-discuss] Re: Underlined text - Suggestions on what to use
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:35:01 -0700 (PDT)
If you can't, or don't want to, underline them , what about putting them in
caps, or small caps.
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> From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
> Hi Mayrie,
>
> No, I haven't explained it well. The book has a list of points, pretty
> much like the following:
>
> Apples are red and green.
> Blueberries are blue and round.
> Bananas are yellow and have skins you peel.
>
> The words apples, blueberries and bananas would be underlined. Normally
> I'd just bold them, or make them italic, but in this book the editors
> used bolding and italics to mean something very specific to the reader.
>
> Does that make more sense?
>
> Oops - gotta go-- I'll check email tomorrow. Another big thunderstorm
> is rumbling in!
>
> Judy s.
>
> On 7/18/2012 3:59 AM, Mayrie ReNae wrote:
>> Hi Judy,
>>
>> This indicator is to denote the beginning of a list, is that correct? What
>> about a line with a few hyphens on it all by themselves? Would that maybe
>> work? And then if you need to denote the end of that kind of thing, repeat
>> the same line with perhaps four to six hyphens on it?
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Mayrie
>>
>>
>>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 1:43 AM
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>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Underlined text - Suggestions on what to use
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've got a really tough book I'm proofreading that uses underlining
> in
>> places to show the first word of each section of an unnumbered list.
>> Normally, I'd use bolding, or italics, or square brackets or an
> asterisk or
>> even font size to replace the underlining. However, in this particular
>> book, all of those formatting things already were used in the printed
>> version to denote some very specific things.
>>
>> Any suggestions on what will work for a braille reader to replace the
>> underlining that doesn't use any of the above? I'm stumped.
> Thanks!
>>
>> Judy s.
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