[bksvol-discuss] Re: what to do about extraneous punctuation marks
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:07:02 -0800
I could be castigated for saying this but it seems to me that since a
blind proofer can't compare with a print book he/she must make corrections
that appear necesary. Example: In the book I'mproofng there's a single
quote that doesn't make sense; it seems, from the flow of the sentence, as
if there should be a comma. I am sighted and do have the print book and
that's correct. But if I were blind I'd want to delete the quote mark and
put a comma where it belongs. (I'm guessing that somehow the scanner
(machine, not person) read the comma as a single quote
Cindy
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Lisa Cushman <crysania@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I read every word and every character with my braille display. However, I
> cannot check it against a print book. So I use Google books, ask questions
> when I need to, and do my best.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Feb 19, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Nimit <kaur.nimit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > That is still work, but you can still use a braille display if you have
> one. It makes it a little easier, but if only if some weird characters
> were recognized by braille display. Like those paragraph thingy everyone
> was talking about a while ago are no luck because screenreader neither
> braille displays recognize these. You know? It can help some. Sent from
> my super iPhone
> >
> >
> >> On Feb 19, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Lisa Cushman <crysania@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> That is kind of hard for us blind proofreaders.
> >> But we do our best.
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>> On Feb 19, 2014, at 12:22 AM, Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I suggested in an earlier post that one could copy , past into Replace
> and replace all but that one has to be very careful to be sure they aren't
> in the book. Since I'm finding in a file I'm proofing now a lot of
> punctuation marks that don't belong but are supposed tp be something else,
> I must stress the latter warning and say that I really thnk what one must
> do is read carefully line by lne and change the marks carefully -- not take
> a short cut.
> >>> Cindy
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