[duxuser] Re: single quotes and apostrophes
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 01:01:28 +0100
Hi Flor,
To be quite honest, I can't personally blame screen reader
companies for altering their internal dictionaries to suit
the times and the available technology.
The computer and literary world are slowly beginning to get
their collective acts together, and have for example, mostly
agreed on consistent names for specific characters, if only
in Unicode.
However, the spin off could be quite significant for braille
users. As I eluded to in my earlier posting, if we can
persuade the likes of Microsoft to do their Smart Quote
conversion properly, this whole Subject Thread would be dead
and gone in an instant. DBT would see the six possibles and
know exactly what to do with them.
There is nevertheless one concession required perhaps, and
that is in dealing with text which is not, or can not, be
passed though the Smart Quote process. My own suggestion,
for what it's worth, is simply two signs. Apostrophe and
Quotation Mark. And at the start of the text, a
transcriber's note says whether or not these are being used.
The reader can them make their own judgement.
Now, moving on, what are we going to do about parenthesis?
:-)( (Funny smile)
George Bell.
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Flor
Lynch
Sent: 06 May 2003 00:24
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
As it is, with often only the one sign for the quote and the
apostrophe to worry about, the screen reader program (which
we braille readers use when braille is not available) often
misidentifies which is which. I'm not the only person to
remark on how annoying this can be. Perhaps we have enough
ambiguous signs already in contracted or standardised
braille, or we should get rid of many such coding
ambiguities, before introducing another - even with the best
of motives <grin>.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Pannett" <pann1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 6:12 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: single quotes and apostrophes
If the rules were change so both single quote and apostrophe
were dot 3, the computer wouldn't have to distinguish
between them--only the reader would.
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AAT9PX, CaliforniaTerri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army
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