[bksvol-discuss] Re: brackets
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 11:37:52 -0500
Brackets are sometimes also used to delimit translated passages, or
standard measurements converted to differing systems of measurement. For
example, in older novels by Clive Cussler distances, speed, weights,
volume etc. . . are often rendered both in Imperial and Metric values
side-by-side, with the metric value in brackets. E.G.
1 mile [1.6Km]
Newer Cussler novels have dispensed with the niceties. In fact, in one
of his latest novels, Black Wind, the authors refers to the speed of a
submarine as '18 Knots per hour', which is absolute nonsense, as a knot
is a unit of speed itself defined as 1 marine [or knotical] mile per hour.
Guido
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I've also seen them used in place of quotation marks when denoting part of
a conversation.
Dave
At 10:04 AM 4/5/2005, you wrote:
>Brackets are frequently used in the promotional blurbs in the books front
>matter, often to denote words or sentence fragments inserted by the
>editorial staff. Omerta probably did not use such editorial devices.
>I have seen some occasions where brackets are used in the body text of a
>regular novel instead of italics, or once again, as editorial insertions.
>So, the bottom line is: handle with care. Square brackets are people
too!
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>Guido
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>Omerta is probably the kind of book where there were no square
>brackets. But there is nothing that should have been removed and the BRF
>file is perfect. It was a good book and a pleasure to read because of
the
>absence of errors and junk chars.
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>Sue S.
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>If there are no square brackets in a book I submitted it is because there
>were no square brackets in the print copy. During the proofing process I
>search for every char available from the keyboard which is not purely
>alphanumeric or common punctuation and take action on an individual
>bases: remove, replace with another char, or leave it alone as needed.
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>G.
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>I''m reading a book in brf that Guido submitted and there are no brackets
>at all... So either the braille translator removes them or the
validator
>remooved them.. Tere is no junk at all.
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>Sue S.
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>Guido, Do you know how the brackets will look in the Bookshare braille
>version; that's what I'm concerned about.
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