[duxuser] print punctuation
- From: "Lisette Wesseling" <Lisette.Wesseling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 10:38:48 +0100
Hi all
I get a lot of documents produced by sighted people to translate into
braille, mainly for my own use. Something which surprises me a lot about
them is the number of times there is a space after say, an open quote,
before the first letter. Sometimes there is no space between a comma and the
next word. Often there is no space between the full stop and the next
sentence.
I'm just wondering whether this incorrect spacing is difficult to pick up
visually, and if a lot of print documents actually have spaces in the wrong
places. In braille it looks completely wrong and strange, especially an
open quote before a space which then looks like his.
Would one of the sighted list members be able to tell me if it is in fact
difficult to see such incorrect spacing, or is it just sloppy typists. Even
when I ask them to pproof their work they often still miss these funny
spacings.
Thanks.
Lisette
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