[duxuser] Re: Quirky things (was Re: Other Odd Symbols)
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:40:05 -0000
No I actually didn't, Ann. My comments were purely concerning
typewritten, ink print material.
That said, in braille terms, the UK has in the past avoided capitals,
simply to reduce bulk - by about 2 pages in 100!!
George.
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[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Foxworth, Ann
Sent: 07 November 2008 14:19
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Subject: [duxuser] Re: Quirky things (was Re: Other Odd Symbols)
George, you left out the paper saving part about no capitals in
Braille
and paragraphs starting in the middle of a line, right after a period
in
the sentence at the end of the last paragraph. I hadn't connected it
to
saving paper due to the war. Interesting.
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On Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 3:19 AM
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Subject: [duxuser] Re: Quirky things (was Re: Other Odd Symbols)
In the main, Steve, as Kathy has pointed out, print users can be a
sloppy bunch at best, and downright careless at worst.
I used to blame a lot of this kind of thing on, believe it or not,
war-time paper saving efforts, especially here in the U.K. We were
taught by our teachers NEVER to put a blank line between paragraphs,
and always indent paragraphs. One used far more abbreviations
(different from acronyms) to save space. So for example, we always
wrote "paras" as opposed to "paragraphs".
Then the Word processor came along - but that another whole story.
Then we have the fancy pants brigade where a TV program called
"NUMBERS" appears as "NUMB3ERS" (Yes that is a number 3 in the middle
of the word.) The pop group "ABBA" where the first letter B faces
backwards.
George.
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[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Dresser
Sent: 07 November 2008 02:21
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Quirky things (was Re: Other Odd Symbols)
Kathy,
One quirky thing that frustrates me is a list of numbers which should
appear
as "124, 251, 325" but which appears in the document as "124,251,325".
Someone once told me that this kind of error happens because it's
sometimes
difficult to determine the presence of spaces because of the way
variable
width fonts appear on the screen. Or are people just being careless
and
sloppy?
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Riessen" <kathy.riessen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 20:48
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Other Odd Symbols
Another quirky thing I often find is spaces before punctuation such as
question marks - the document producer thinks it looks cute!!!!
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