As I said in my original post, the word bar appears in a finished book that I am reading in braille, so shouldn't this have been caught and corrected either by the scanner, the validator or by Bookshare? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:52 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a frequent appearing word > Actually the "bar" is a symbol. It looks like a straight line, and is very > annoying. My Braillenotes makes them as dots 12,56. It is a junk character > and should be removed. But it isn't a word, just there isn't a Braille > symbol for them in literary Braille. > > Just my thoughts on this. > > > Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden > juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. > Graduate Advisory Council > www.guidedogs.com > > If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is > anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. > > -- Edgar Watson Howe > > > >