[bookshare-discuss] Re: Special Characters in RTF Format
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:50:44 -0600
Hi Evan,
You've hit on one of OpenBook's excentricities that makes it a little less
endeering to me.
The bookShare tool will not handle these as "normal" punctuation marks either.
It would be great if you could transform the quotes/apostrophys on books you
submit as you'll save someone else the confusion you're at right now.
I don't know how to change these chars using a PacMate. If you want
instructions for either MSWord or Kurzweil, I can do that.
There is a "tip" on my website that discusses potentially problem characters
for the BookShare system.
http://www.jbrownell.com/bks/tl.asp
HTH,
jake
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:31 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Special Characters in RTF Format
I'm reading a book I just got direct from the author, and was reading along
on the Pac Mate with the Braille translator on when I found that the quotation
mark at the beginning of a quote was not displayed correctly, coming up as dots
1-2-5-6 rather than dots 2-3-6 as the open quote is usually displayed in
Braille. With the voice I discovered that the author used open quote and close
quote - which I hadn't encountered before - rather than the quotation mark I
was aware of. Bringing up the book in Wordpad, I noticed that Jaws did not
differentiate between these characters and the standard quote. The standard
quote is character 34, the open quote is character 147 and the close quote is
character 148. I will submit the book as I received it if the Braille
translation software Bookshare uses can translate these characters correctly,
but if not - and for my own use, I would like to know how to replace these
characters with the standard character 34 so that my Pac Mate's Braille
translator will display the open quote correctly. The close quote mark does
come up as dots 3-5-6 as it should, though.
I've done several searchs on Google, but either the information is not there,
or I'm just not entering the right queries. Anyone here have some advice? I
don't want to have to bug the author about this after he was kind enough to
provide the book.
Thanks.
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