[bksvol-discuss] Re: necessity of diacritical marks in foreign words or names
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 23:17:57 -0800
Many thanks. I'll forward this to the proofer of a book re the Esterhazy
family of the former Hungary
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Ali Al-hajamy <aalhajamy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not disruptive in the slightest. How important you think they are depends
> on the person reading the book, but I'd recommend keeping them in, because
> they help with pronunciations in the event that you should have to read the
> book aloud. it's especially useful in DAISY rather than Braille, because in
> most cases, the Braille translators used to open the BRF files interpret
> any marks as acute or grave accent signs, even if they aren't, and in rare
> cases render the book unreadable, whereas if you read the XML that comes
> with the DAISY files, the signs will read as they are supposed to. In one
> extreme instance, in Jaroslav HaÅek's The Good Soldier Åvejk and his
> fortunes in the world war, every time the special S character that you see
> in Svejk or Hasek appears in the book, which is very, very often in this
> novel (I don't know if it looks different to the sighted reader, but a
> screenreader reads it with an "sh" sound, something which also appears at
> the end of the name of Danilo KiÅ), in the Braille copy it would show up as
> many garbled characters, but when I switched to the DAISY and read the XML
> file, it was fine.
>
> Tl;dr version: keep them. They don't get in the way and can be helpful.
>
>
> On 09-Nov-12 20:11, Cindy Rosenthal wrote:
>
>>
>> How important, or, conversely, disruptive to reading by non-sighted
>> members is the use of diacritical marks like acute, grave, or umlauts
>> (sp.?) in foreign words and names?
>> If the scanner did not put them in must the proofer?
>>
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