[bksvol-discuss] validation confusion
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 02:05:50 -0400
Dear Mickey,
You do your best and so do I. We don't need to let differing opinions shake us.
I kept posting about the subject because I was trying to figure it out, but
unless we get a mandate from Bookshare, there are bound to be differences in
our efforts given our different equipment, experience, access to print, etc.
On a lighter note, if any of us were doing the minimum, these questions
wouldn't even come up and the ratings of many of the books being validated
would drop. So far Bookshare hasn't demanded perfection and here we are
splitting m dashes trying to give it to them anyway.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: mickey
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 11:17 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Formatting Tabs or Spaces
Ah, Lissie, there does seem to be a problem. I don't understand sighted
readers wanting to use Bookshare. I'd think this was set up for the
print-handicapped. zI'm waiting for an answer to that question, because I guess
I misunderstood.
If we must maintain the integrity of a book, how can we correct a word that's
divided between two pages? The more I work, the more confused I get. I'm up to
74 validations for this year, and have done at least that for three years, and
still don't know what I'm doing.
Mickey
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----- Original Message -----
From: Estelnalissi
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 5:21 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Formatting Tabs or Spaces
Dear Monica,
I should know better than to speak up, but I replace those paragraph
indent tabs with 3 spaces, a compromise between the 5 for print and 2 for
braille figuring that both populations are smart enough to get the idea. Five
spaces really adds up in finger scanning time, but I thought 2 might be so
small an indent as to make it hard for sighted readers to see. Can't both
populations live with some compromise? Besides, all print books don't indent 5
spaces. The one I'm validating now indents 3 for paragraphs and 8 for quotes!
And I'm settling for 6 for the quotes. Which way is the firing squad?
Always with love,
Lissi
Now let's see if I have the nerve to read the responses to this.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Monica Cortada
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 4:51 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Formatting Tabs or Spaces
I guess I didn't ask my question well. Let me try again. Although tabs
can be adjusted to any length, they equal about five spaces when used to
indicate a paragraph indentation. So, tabs would need to be replaced with five
caret w's to maintain the format of the original text. Since the text looks
and sounds the same whether it has one tab or five spaces, what happens in the
.brf files? Which is better, or less garbled, a tab or five spaces in a row?
Monica in Maryland
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