[nabop] Lesson 15 in UEB Certification Course

[Dani Pagador]

Hi, Stephanie.
Thanks for your input re Lesson 15.

How'd you find out what is italicized for that particular sentence?

How much more till you do your manuscript?

Curious,
Dani


On 10/28/16, Stephanie Pieck via NABOP <nabop at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Dani,
>
> I haven't gotten to the manuscript part of the course yet, but I do plan to
> scan the book I'm transcribing and converting that file to .DOC, then
> transcribing from that.
>
> The different fonts aren't as important as the difference between italics,
> bold, script, etc., at least according to my reading of the Lesson 15
> materials.
>
> In the "Gainsborough" sentence, it's only the "Blue Boy" that's italicized.
>
> Stephanie
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> Subject: [nabop] Lesson 15 in UEB Certification Course
>
> Hi, Everyone.
> I'm hoping there's someone on list who's taken the UEB course and has gone
> through Lesson 15.
>
> I'm wondering how you managed  to understand the typeforms and make the
> proper associations so you could Braille correctly. I am particulary
> frustrated about the small letters section.
>
> I'm looking at the .pdf of the lesson with JFW to try to understand what is
> happening with the print so I can make the proper leap re the Braille, but
> am having trouble seeing why things are the way they are.
> I have all the attributes set to show on my Braille display, and use the
> Insert+f and the Insert+5 to check on typeface and color. But I'm not
> getting very far.
>
> For example, in the sentence "Gainsborough painted Blue Boy." the .brf
> shows
> the first word as italicized, and a different typeface on the last two
> words.
>
> When I use JFW and my Braille display to read the .pdf to understand the
> print correlation, all I see is that the whole sentence is italicized.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I'm worried about how I'll handle this, especially as it'll come up when I
> try to do my trial manuscript and need to check the Braille against the
> print to be sure it's accurate. I'm considering using a .pdf or .doc of the
> printed version of my manuscript for this. How did you manage to proof your
> manuscript as a blind person?
>
> Thanks,
> Dani
>
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