[duxuser] Re: Reporting errors: Was "Grievous but funny errors made by Grade II Braille translators"
- From: "Anne Ronco" <anne@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 10:27:37 -0400
Thanks, George, and well put.
One I remember that never came to our attention until the Harry Potter books
came into being was the "ed" contraction appearing in the middle of
"Dumbledore." Which we then fixed in the next version, of course. J
All the best,
Anne Ronco
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From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 8:10 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Reporting errors: Was "Grievous but funny errors made by
Grade II Braille translators"
Kathleen's advice here is absolutely spot on!
"I have found that *when discrepancies are reported*, you will find these
corrected in the next update, which is a very good reason for keeping your
DBT up to date."
We always encourage our own users here in the UK to report oddities which
are found.
Actual braille translation errors do amazingly arise from time to time, and
doubtless we may well see a few more occur as Unified English Braille comes
into greater use.
However many formatting issues still arise, and these do cause me personally
concern if they are not reported, and DBT is simply blamed for the
problem(s). In the vast majority of cases, the problems occur in the
original document, and can often be hard to track down - even for me after
20 odd years of using the likes of Word for Windows. That's why it's
helpful to see the original document before it is brought in to DBT.
Once an issue has been found, if it can be fixed in the original, everyone
can be happy and will hopefully have learned from it.
If not, I have always found Duxbury willing to dig deeper and help.
George.
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