[bksvol-discuss] Re: quotation marks

  • From: "Scott Blanks" <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:38:37 -0400

Jake,

I just took a quick look at one of your recent Hardy Boys submissions and it looks fine. Your line of thinking also made me consider another possibility.

When I download the book for validation, it is still in the .ark format. I then open it in openbook and convert it to rtf using the save as dialog box of Openbook. I wonder if my results would be different/better if I used the launch menu of openbook to transfer the text into MS Word, then saved that file as an rtf file?

Any opinions listers?
Scott

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:07 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: quotation marks


Hey Scott,
Could the wonderfully delightful OpenBook be doing us another disservice or am I trying to blame it for too much? I don't have my refreshable braille display handy right now, but if you could have a look at how one of my submissions is rendered, it would perhaps confirm or strike down OpenBook as the source.

Thanks,
Jake
www.JBrownell.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Blanks" <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 7:38 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: quotation marks


Hi,

I assume you would mean a space before the quotation mark, and it doesn't appear as though there is. I've gone back and looked at the rtf files I submitted to Bookshare and I don't see anything out of the ordinary. There are quotes at the beginning and the end of sentences.

What's really odd is I've read many a book from Bookshare, books I didn't submit, and they've been fine. Now, the books that I submitted, have this problem. I'm accessing them the same way, using a Braillenote notetaker.

Very strange,
Scott


----- Original Message ----- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 10:52 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: quotation marks


Could there be a space, there by tricking the translator into thinking that
it should have the opening Quotes.

I don't know otherwise, as Duxbury doesn't do that to me, and I use it all
the time to translate things.


Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
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Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

-- Vance Havner
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Blanks" <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 6:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] quotation marks


Hi all,

I have just been downloading a couple of the books I submitted in order to
see how they look in braille. For the most part things are ok, with one
exception. Where ever there is a quotated sentence, i.e. dialog, the mark
that begins the sentence is the same as the mark that closes the quotation.
So what I see is dots 2, 3, 6 to open, and dots 2, 3, 6 to close. Now, I
only see this in the dialog where there is a comma or question mark ending
the quotated sentence. The quotated sentences which end with period have the
correct dots 3, 5, 6.

Any idea why this happened? Is there something I can do to fix this when I
submit books in the future?

Thanks,
Scott





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