I think a possible solution is to:1) place a reader note at the beginning of the text stating that many pages contain an acrostic then defining what an acrostic is; 2) on each page where an acrostic occurs, place a reader note at the top of the page stating the acrostic on that page.
Hope that suggestion will help. Lori C.----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:21 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: formatting question
Hi, Valerie, what you are describing sounds like an acrostic to me. Could you write a note to the reader explaining that what is being shown is an acrostic? I really don't know how you can work this out because when I'm reading a book using a Braille display, I wouldn't have a whole page infront of me to make it obvious that what I'm reading is an acrostic. Also, I don't know how you would convey this in audio. This is a real poser. I couldunderstand what you were doing if I had a hardcover book or pamphlet in front of me and I could turn the pages. Sorry, but that's all I know. I'msure there will be others more savvy than I am who can advise you. Good luckand best regards, Kim. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Valerie Maples Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:25 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] formatting question Good morning!I have a question. Doug and I are working on a children's book and it relieson some visual cues within some pages. On a couple of the pages it has thefirst letter of the word of each line separated by a space from the rest of its word so that when you look at the page vertically you see a message. Inother words, there is an intentional space so that you get a message whenyou look at the word from top to bottom. Obviously a blind reader would lose this message and I am wondering how to best handle it. My immediate thoughtis to leave it intact, but after considerable thought, I am thinking about putting a bracketed message at the top of the page and simply making the first letter either or both bold or larger, but eliminating the space so that it reads as a word or plays as a word when using text to speech. Feedback will be greatly appreciated so that I can modify it appropriately to submit to the collection. Thanks! Valerie To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signaturedatabase 4415 (20090910) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signaturedatabase 4418 (20090912) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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