[blindlaw] Double checking Bluebook

Tai Tomasi TTomasi at driowa.org
Tue Mar 1 14:31:33 UTC 2016


Hello. To my knowledge, you cannot put text in small caps with the Braille Sense. In Word, select the text you want to make small caps and go to the font dialog box with control D. There is a checkbox to make the text small caps. Hope this helps.

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From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kelby Carlson via BlindLaw
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Double checking Bluebook

This is very helpful. So, if I understand you correctly, MS Word will tell you whether the font is large or small caps? How do you make text large or small caps in Word? As I said, I currently use a BrailleSense but don't think you can do it with that.

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From: "Stewart, Christopher K via BlindLaw" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org
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Date sent: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:18:33 -0500
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Double checking Bluebook

Hi Kelby,

After two years of law review, I believe the only way to insure accuracy is to do a bunch of insert F to read you the attributes of the text. One important thing, however, is that when you're using JAWS online and press insert F, it tells you the font attributes, but does not tell you whether it is in small caps, at least my version doesn't.
So, I suggest preparing an MS Word document where you copy the examples of the most commonly-cited forms from the online Bluebook.
This also saves you from tabbing around on the website. For me, the most common ones have been:

Law review articles (consecutively and non-consecutively
paginated)
books
online sources
cases
federal statutes
administrative opinions
model rules

Good luck!

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