[bksvol-discuss] Re: special validator needed
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:28:38 -0700 (PDT)
I once validated a book with scientifc notations that
were Greek letters. I downloaded the greek alphabet
and wrote the letters in English.=, e.g., alpha, beta,
etc. Fortunately, there weren't too many of them.
Cindy
--- Amy Goldring Tajalli
<agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am working on a book with a combination of
> non-scanable [sp?] special items: Musical Staff and
> notes with appropriate lines as well as
> mathematical and footnote notation [without
> footnotes]. There are also sentences structured in
> shapes to show the seeing reader what the words
> represent such as a sentence in the shape of the
> Eiffel Tower.
>
> Now I asked John and Jim at Bookshare about the
> possibility of verbal descriptions replacing much of
> these as I will be attempting another book with
> similar problems of sentences shaped like waves and
> pinwheels as well as images of stars whirling in
> space. Obviously, I am working with science fiction
> which I am rescanning at the request of readers who
> found the previous scans incomprehensible. I am
> prepared to attempt descriptions of some of these,
> given permission or ascent from Bookshare, but there
> are some things which could be included if someone
> had such things as musical and mathematical symbols
> and even simple things like fractions. I gather
> from comments I have read here that there are
> volunteers with programs that can do this. I can do
> the descriptions of what cannot be shown for a
> reader - computer or human - but I hope some of the
> other things which readers would recognize could be
> included by programs which know how to represent
> them. 3 1/2 or "three and a half" work but not as
> well as shown by someone with a keyboard and program
> that can print the one half properly.
>
> The first book is almost ready. The more
> complicated one will be a few weeks as I have a few
> more books in between and I know that people who can
> do what I need are usually in demand and busy with
> books no one else can or will work on so the people
> who want the works of Alfred Bester will have to
> wait a bit but I am certain they will find him worth
> the wait. Ironically, he has blind and characters
> with strange vision in his books but he must have
> assumed that such characters would not care to read
> the books without live assistants.
>
> One thing I can guarantee is that if you have any
> liking for fiction, especially science fiction
> and/or fantasy, you will have fun with his books
> though a few stories (only a very few) may give you
> nightmares. Science fiction buffs will recognize his
> influence on people from
>
> Harlan Ellison to many writers of Star Trek and
> later books and TV shows and Movies.
>
> Am looking forward to help though I usually try to
> validate the books I scan I am not ashamed to admit
> to being out of my league with some of this. I have
> noted that much of his work is not available from
> either Talking Books or RFB as I was hoping to have
> some help from there but we will be mainly on our
> own.
>
> Amy
> omsm
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