[bksvol-discuss] Re: Advice requested
- From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:55:59 -0700
Is this helpful?
Tilde lowercase a:
São (means "saint")
Acute accent lowercase a:
Páscoa (means "Easter")
Acute accent lowercase o:
biológica (means "biological")
Circumflex lowercase e:
Você (means "you"; formal usage)
Circumflex lowercase o:
Econômica (means "economic")
Umlaut lowercase u:
pingüim (means "penguin")
Cedila lowercase c:
Orçamentos (means "budgets")
On 8/29/11 3:52 PM, "Sue Stevens" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Scott, would you please write a word such as San or Sao and put the
>symbol
>in so we can see what it should look like?
>
>Thanks,
>Sue S.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Rains
>Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 5:06 PM
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Advice requested
>
>Kim,
>
>I'm occasionally in touch with the Brazilians working on digital book
>accessibility. Let me ask. I suspect that, as long as Word is using proper
>ASCII, the answer that Bob gave about using the virtual keyboard is going
>to be the right answer.
>
>Scott
>
>On 8/29/11 2:16 PM, "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Hi, Scott, how do I put that tilde you mention over the A? Do I turn on
>>the thumb keys and write an alt key with a number that represents the A
>>tilde? I know I have a tilde on the computer keyboard but am unsure how
>>to make that A tilde look good. Any advice I can get will be
>>appreciated. I think I have a message about circumflexes using the
>>Control key and something else. Thanks for the info Scott. You see, if I
>>were writing Braille, (not the Portuguese Braille, but standard Grade 2
>>Braille) Any accented letter is marked with a dot 4 in a Braille cell.
>>For example, if I were writing "puree" (which in French would have an E
>>accent aigu over the first E), I would write "p-u-r-dot 4-e-e". So also,
>>if I were writing Sao Paulo in Braille, I'd write "dot 6 (capital letter
>>sign) s-dot 4-a-o dot 6-p-a-u-l-o". Regards, Kim Friedman.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Rains
>>Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 1:59 PM
>>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Advice requested
>>
>>
>>Kim,
>>
>>InPortuguese you will most often find the tilde over a before o. For
>>example, San Franciso in English and Spanish is Sao - with a tilde over
>>the a - Francisco in Portuguese. Mano is Spanish is mao - with a tilde
>>over the a - in Portuguese. Circumflex will most often be over an o
>>occurring as the only vowel in a syllable. It would be very rare to find
>>umlauts in Portuguese. Even in the Linguistics Department in Brazil we
>>just ignored the umlaut in the word lingüística .
>>
>>Scott
>>
>>On 8/29/11 1:48 PM, "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi, Bob, the problem is that I don't know what symbol is used in the
>>>print, so I can't know the appropriate accent mark to use. I don't know
>>
>>>if I should use a circumflex mark on the A, a grave, an acute accent,
>>>or an umlaut. (I'm pretty sure the umlaut isn't what I want.) Regards,
>>>Kim Friedman.
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob W
>>>Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 1:41 PM
>>>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Advice requested
>>>
>>>
>>>What software/hardware are you using?
>>>
>>>If in some way you are using jaws (i.e. jaws with word) then you can
>>>press
>>>insert+4 (that's four on the numbers row) and you will get a list of
>>>characters to choose from.
>>>
>>>Press enter on the character that meets your needs.
>>>
>>>The three a characters you get are: á Á and æ.
>>>
>>>Hope this helps.
>>>
>>>p.s. even if you're using a program like kurzweil or openbook to proof
>>>with, there are ways to get these characters into those programs. Just
>>>let us know.
>>>
>>>Bob
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 3:13 PM
>>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Advice requested
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi, I'm proofreading a science fiction book. I'm reading the second
>>>story in the anthology. Part of the story takes place in Brazil.
>>>There's a discussion of Sao Paulo. The advice I need is how to put in
>>>the correct accent mark for the A in Sao Paulo (Paulo doesn't use an
>>>accent mark. I know how to write it in Braille, but I don't know which
>>>ASCII character to use for the A in Sao. Please write me back as I wish
>>
>>>this to look right. Many thanks for the help. Regards, Kim Friedman.
>>>
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