[duxuser] Re: print punctuation
- From: "George Bell" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 11:34:05 +0100
Hi Lisette,
What you describe is simply careless typing. Moreover, the typist is
clearly not using any spell checking facilities.
You would be surprised (or perhaps not) how many Government publications
for example, we get which contain such mistakes. A spell check is
virtually the first thing we do before we even consider working on the
braille side.
However, I would stress the importance of referring such errors back to
the originator to raise their consciousness of such mistakes. It
doesn't always work, but in our experience is well worth it.
George Bell
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisette Wesseling [mailto:Lisette.Wesseling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 16 May 2002 10:39
> To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> 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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