I should have added that the smart quotes and straight quotes are not the same as the apostrophes in British books. Those are single quotes, but they also have an opening and closing version. K1000 doesn't differentiate between them the way OpenBook does, so it shouldn't be a problem for scanning any books. There is a tip at the same link as the one I posted about opening and closing single quotes. But as I said, K1000 doesn't seem to use - or confuse - the so-called "smart" versions the way OpenBook does.
Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:18 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: let's hear it for the deaf man
Will you please tell me the difference between a smart quote and a straight quote. I'm using Kurzweil and I do have a braille display. When I'm scanning a book as those from the UK, they often use apostrophes instead of quotes and I don't change those. Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 6:12 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: let's hear it for the deaf manHi all,Grandma, I'm not sure what happens to the things, but somehow, in this particular book, all the quotation marks became capital O's with accents on them, umlaots (sp) I think. Whatever it was, it made the book totally unreadable because every time there was a person speaking or there was a word with an apostrophe, you got this capital umlot O. I think it was something in the translation from whatever software it was scanned in. I believe that the quotes were smart, at least that's what I think happened. You could try downloading the book and seeing what I mean. I think the problem showed up in the DAISY copy as well as the BRF one. I'm not sure how else to describe what happened. It was, err, um, well, it was interesting, in the Chinese sense of the word. "May you live in interesting times."<smiling> Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons Portal Tutoring NEW EMAIL ADDRESS EFFECTIVE NOW: AKP@xxxxxxxxxxx OLD EMAIL, EFFECTIVE TILL 09/30/07: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.portaltutoring.info "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost."Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.10/977 - Release Date: 8/28/2007 4:29 PMTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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