Just as a point of clarification, small and raised above the line is superscript, small and below the line are subscripts.
As someone else mentioned, the way to check them in JAWS is to select the suspect text, go to the Font menu in Word - I use control-shift-f - and tab through the dialogue box. Unfortunately, I don't think JAWS will just read them as you come upon them in the text without checking. I would love to be proved wrong about this, however, <smile>. But since Terra is asking about it, I presume that it doesn't.
Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:16 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: superscript and subscript
Monica, I'm curious as to how superscript reads in Jaws. In the sentence in the page Terra sent me to look at, the letters e a r in the word year were in subscript, i.e., small and raised above the line, as footnotes often are in books. People have written here that they prefer to have footnote numbers written on the line after the period in the sentence, and without parentheses (all this detail for newbies) so I assume that superscript numbers are read differently in Jaws or braille or both. How would parts of a word read? I will say, for Terra, she's persistent and courageous. This is only her second validation effort, and based on the page she sent me, there are lots of different kinds of problems. She's going to learn a lot from this one book. smile Cindy Cindy --- Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi, Terra. Now that's a question I've never been asked. I don't have a clue, and I'm not sure it matters in the final product since a lot of extra formatting is stripped out. For example, all tabs are removed. I know they keep the bold text attribute, but I have no idea what they do with things like fonts or italics in text. I just proofread the document for accuracy and let the Bookshare tools sort out things like fonts unless the book is in a giant font that Jaws can't read. Then I select all text and adjust it to 16 point Times New Roman and keep moving. Jaws can't read text in a font size of somewhere around 32 or larger, so that forces me to adjust the font size. Other than that, I figure I have enough trouble proofreading the text without trying to sort out how the text appears on the screen. Maybe someone else here has a better idea of how to help you. Monica Willyard Terra Syslo wrote: > Does anyone know how to tell in jaws with word if something is superscript > or subscript and how to take that out? Sorry for all the questions, I just > want to make sure I'm getting everything right with this book. > > > email and MSN: tlsyslo@xxxxxxxxx > skype: tlsyslo > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.19/1008 - Release Date: 9/14/2007 > 8:59 AM > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 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. > > >____________________________________________________________________________________Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469 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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