[bksvol-discuss] Re: quotation marks

  • From: "Sandi Ryan" <sjryan2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:14:00 -0600

Hi Sue,
Actually, I'm reading a book full of those words right now with dropped letters, and it's the close quote that it does. This book (The Grapes of Wrath) has multiple huge issues, and I've reported it and been told they'll let me know when it's corrected. But if the software automatically converts the apostrophe indicating a word is missing letters to the close single quote, it may not help! 

Sandi
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Stevens" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 9:11 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: quotation marks
Yes, on my Braille display in Word, the British quotation marks look like apostrophes; however, Braille translators, including Bookshare's converter, interprets them correctly in BRF files. I don't know about DAISY, because I always download BRF files.
However, the Braille translator for Bookshare incorrectly translates dialect, where a letter is dropped. That should be an apostrophe in Braille, but the translator converts it to an open British quotation mark. I wish they could fix that!! It started happening when we got the "new website" a few years ago, and they still haven't fixed it. 

Sue S.
-----Original Message----- From: Ann Parsons 
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 7:46 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: quotation marks

Hi all,

Roger, a screen reader identifies the British quotes, or single quotes,
as apostrophes.  That's why I call them that.

Ann P.

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