Scott,
Yes. The opening and closing single quotes are in the 140's or 8000's
depending on which code your screen reader decides to announce. JAWS
version 7 has been announcing the four digit number, and the version 5
I
used to run announced the 3 digit number.
HTH
Gerald
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Blanks
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:39 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: double quotes appearing as single quotes
Pratik, can I determine if these are proper single quotes by checking
that
they are ascii character 39? Hope I'm phrasing that correctly.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:29 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: double quotes appearing as single quotes
Hello,
Braille formatting has no problem with properly converting single
quote
characters, so long as they are proper ASCII single quotes and not
stand-in
apostrophes. If apostrophes appear where single quotation symbols
should
be, then braille conversion will not be correct. You are absolutely
right
that a global replace presents incredible challenges. Automatic
braille
conversion isn't smart enough to take care of this kind of difficulty
at
this time.
Regards,
Pratik
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grandma
Cindy
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:15 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: double quotes appearing as single
quotes
Scott,
I hope you're wrong about how they come out in BRF
format, because I've done at least 4 books that way
that I can think of--no, five or six that I remember.
Do you read in Braille? If so, download the most
recent ones like that I validated, Blood Royal and/or
Transit of Venus (Did you scan and submit that one? I
can't remember) and see how they came out. If they
don't read properly, then we need to know that, and
also need to know from the officials what to do. A
global change would make apostrophes also double
quotes.
Cindy R
--- Scott Blanks <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Cindy,
Yep, English author. And published within the past
15 years. I would have no
problem leaving things as they are, but I don't
believe it will come out
well in the Braille format. I'm hoping someone can
comment on this concern.
I've converted what I've scanned into the rtf
format, and the quotes are
still appearing as single quotes or apostrophes.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:01 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: double quotes
appearing as single quotes
> Scott,
>
> Is this a book written by an English as opposed to
an
> American author? The English do it that way. They
> also, I've seen in books I've validated, omit the
> period we put after titles like Mr., and put
> punctuation marks outside quotation marks instead
of
> inside, as we do. Some of that may depend on when
the
> book was published, but I'm not sure.
>
> To find out more about the differences, as well as
an
> interesting take on grammar and punctuation, I
> recommend Eats Shoots and Leaves, which is in the
> collection. It's an amusing book.
>
> Which reminds me, spelling differs, too, z being
used
> in words like amusing instead of s.
>
> When I validate a book like that, I don't change
> anything but I do put in the long synopsis that
the
> book used English rather than American spelling
and
> punctuation.
>
> Grandma Cindy
>
>
> --- Scott Blanks <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm using Openbook to scan a novel. Where dialog
>> appears in the book,
>> Openbook is identifying what should be double
quotes
>> at the beginning and
>> end of spoken passages as single quotes. I'm
>> concerned that all of these
>> single quotes will have to be converted to the
>> proper quotation marks. Am I
>> correct in this assumption, and if so, is there
an
>> easy way to do this? Or
>> another thought ... is there a scanning setting I
>> can adjust within Openbook
>> so the inaccurate marks will be seen properly?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Scott
>>
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