[bksvol-discuss] Re: Use of Capital Letters in Printed Text
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 00:19:03 -0500
I remember from what Carrie told me in the past if it affects readability, we
are allowed to modify formatting to enable more fluid reading. In this case, I
would fully capitalize or lower case any mixed words, but leave the rest as in
print. Others may have another opinion, and I believe it is still open to
discussion. I have done both previous to Carrie's feedback and now I alter only
the one word until I am told differently.
Hope that helps, Nancy!
Valerie
On Aug 1, 2010, at 11:24 PM, Nancy Feldman wrote:
> Good Evening,
>
> I’m validating a book where, when the scene changes, the first few words of
> the new scene are all in upper case. It actually has more to do with
> distance, I think, because sometimes the capitalization ends in the middle of
> a word.
>
> The scanner identifies this correctly, and the first few words are
> appropriately capitalized. I could do nothing, which would certainly be
> easiest, but if someone is listening to this book aloud, they will sometimes
> hear words mispronounced, since the first part of the word is capitalized,
> while the rest is not.
>
> Do I leave the capitalization alone, even though it causes the book to be
> read oddly?
>
> Thanks.
>
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