[bksvol-discuss] Re: Jumper bso weirdness, continued

  • From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:15:24 -0800

Hi Jill,

        You can have Kurzweil notify you when bold or italics are present by
changing voices.  And you can select text and use the format menu and the
font selection there to find out what the font looks like.    That is a bit
of work, but if you just need to do chapter headings (change their size) it
isn't a big chore. You can standardize the font of the entire book by
pressing control a to select the entire document, go to the edit menu, up
arrow to "format" and hit enter, hit enter on "font," select your font name,
leave things alone when K1000 tells you that some of the text is bold, and
some is in italics, set your font size by arrowing up and down to choose the
size that you want and then tab to "ok" and hit enter. Sve these changes. 

        It really doesn't take long.  And All of the information will and
can be spoken if you choose to hear it.

Mayrie

 

-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jill O'Connell
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 6:09 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Jumper bso weirdness, continued

Mayrie, Have you ever run this question by Steven Baum? When using a screen 
reader, we don't know whether the font size varies or not. Also we don't 
even know which words are in bold etc. And, of course, in braille or speech 
it doesn't matter. Maybe I should read Kurzweil's manual about fonts since 
when I have to fill in chapter titles, etc. I don't change the font.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 2:02 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Jumper bso weirdness, continued


> Hi Cait!
>
> I always standardize font by using either the font dialogue in Word
> or Kurzweil.  Sighted readers have said that Times New Roman at 12 point 
> is
> comfortable for reading.  If you want to be more true to the actual text 
> of
> books, allow all bolding and italics to remain and then increase chapter 
> or
> story titles to a larger font, perhaps 16.  This results in a much nicer
> looking book.  For some reason, the font sizes are not accurately
> represented when OCRing using Kurzweil.  I have no idea whether this is
> because of the scanning or the recognition.  And the standardizing of font
> only takes about half a minute for the whole document.
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of My Nickels Worth
> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 1:49 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Jumper bso weirdness, continued
>
> Hmm.. Ok, I'll try that.
>
> Incidentally, my husband, Mark, who is much more savvy with Word then I, 
> is
> trying to help me with this.   He discovered that the fonts are all mixed
> up, and that doesn't of course, show up when you're reading with K1000,
> unless you check.  He actually checked when using Word, and some lines 
> only
> had one or two words on them because of big fonts, etc.
>
> I'll try the paper size deal and see what happens.
>
> Cait
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mayrie ReNae
> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 4:05 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Jumper bso weirdness, continued
>
>
> Hi Cait!
>
> Try increasing the paper size even more.  Use "custom" then you can
> put something huge like 22 in the page length in inches.  I'll bet that
> fixes it.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of My Nickels Worth
> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 12:59 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Jumper bso weirdness, continued
>
> Ok, I went ahead and changed the paper size in Word from letter to Legal, 
> as
> Christina suggested.  That took the document from 553 pages down to 467
> pages.. Any other suggestions?  In /through all this, Kersi is still 
> adament
> that the same document is 353 pages.
>
> Cait
>
>
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