I just came back to the list and I missed the beginning of this
conversation. I always retain italics. Is it fruitless to retain them?
Is this what I'm hearing? What about words that are in bold type?
Sorry if I missed the answer.
Devorah
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of EVAN REESE
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 6:07 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: italics
There is a method for indicating italicized and nonitalicized text in
braille, but Bookshare's brf books aren't doing it.
Evan
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From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 2:08 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: italics
To a sighted reader it does indicate emphasis or, in the case of
personal
letters written, or notes written from one person to another,it makes
it
more realistic, if one can say that--and sometimes, as in Penduli,
which I
just finished validating, it indicates a person's thoughts vis-a-vis
what
he/she is saying.
I can't think offhand of all the used to which italics are used--I
think
those are the main ones. Sometimes newspaper articles within a story
are
given in italics, but I don't think that's essential; it would
probably be
just as clear to a sighted reader if it were indented and in quotation
marks.
I assume when I validate that Jaws or Daisy or whatever is audio--I
still
don't have the various technologies straight in my mind, though it was
explained once--emphasizes the italics in speech, or somehow reads it
differently, though you just said that JAWS didn't, so I must be
confused.
And I thought someone posted that braille differentiates italics, but
that wasn't your question. smile
G.Cindy
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--- On Sat, 7/5/08, Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: italics
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 10:29 PM
Thank you but that's not the problem or the question. I
have sighted help
and have copied the sentence. My question is, this is going
to make a real
change in the print copy so the sighted reader (dyslexic
etc.) will miss the
way it looks in the book entirely. This is why I am asking
how others are
dealing with this issue. But thanks again for your offer.
You know I won't
hesitate to ask you for help when I need it; you are always
so generous.
Jill
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From: "Grandma Cindy"
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To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 8:29 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: italics
>
> What is the book, Jill? If I can get it, I can send
you the sentence
> italicized.
>
> G.Cindy
>
>
> --- On Sat, 7/5/08, Jill O'Connell
<jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Jill O'Connell
<jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] italics
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 3:55 PM
>> I have been following the discussion on the list
about
>> making italics but
>> have done nothing about it so far; this is partly
because
>> Kurzweil does such
>> a good job reading them and although it would be
nice, I
>> didn't think it was
>> all that important making the italics available in
braille
>> since they
>> wouldn't be shown in the speech version
either. Now,
>> however, I am
>> confronted with an example that Kurzweil can't
read and
>> it's fairly long. I
>> can retype it but, of course, the effect will be
lost for
>> the sighted
>> reader. I would really welcome being told what
others are
>> doing in similar
>> situations. I think it is virtually impossible to
>> accommodate the three
>> readinggroups who use Bookshare. I wonder how the
staff
>> doing scanning
>> would handle this situation. Any comments would be
welcome.
>> Jill
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