No, actually, Mayrie, that's very encouraging -- the quote from the book
was written by a woman, a midwife, whose spelling was "imaginative" as
the book's author put it. So the fact that it was readable is very
happy-making. And from what you say, the tables as I have reconstructed
them will read correctly, when the Bookshare wizard removes the tabs; it
will read like text, so from now on I will use single spaces, but what
I've done so far will be converted correctly. Yay.
Devorah
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: tables in Bookshare books plus another
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Hi Devorah,
My suggestion would be to convert the
tables to text, replacing all tabs with a single
space, as the bookshare processing tools remove
all tabs, and more than a single space between words.
As for your quote, it read fine to
me. Interesting how things were written differently back then. Neat to
see!
Hope I haven't discouraged you too much about the tables thing.
Good luck.
Peace,
Mayrie
At 06:04 PM 4/9/2008, you wrote:
>What is the protocol for tables?
>I've got quite a few in the book I'm validating
>- I'm using a library copy of the printed book
>because the scanned version is all goofed up, as
>I would expect. But what I'm doing is using tab
>stops and recreating a table in tabular form.
>Will this work for folks? If not, what should I be doing?
>
>She says, halfway through the book and hadn't thought of asking before
now!
>
>Also, I'm wondering what screen readers will do
>with this quote from an 18th century midwife.
>Can someone reassure me that it is decipherable?
>17 F At ditoes & Mr Poores. Birth 47th a
>daughter. At Capt Meloys allso
>Rainy. I was Calld from Mr Parkers at 2 hour
>morn to Mr Poores. Doct Page was Calld before my
>arival. I Extracted the Child, a dagt. He Chose
>to Close the Loin. I returnd home at 8 hour
>morning. Receivd 6/ as a reward. Mr Ballard &
>Ephm attend worship, Dolly & Sally aftern.
>Charls and John Coks supt here. I was calld to
>Capt meloys at 11 hour Evening. Raind. Birth Mr Poores daughter X X
>
>
>
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