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====== Poetry ====== | ====== Poetry ====== | ||
- | For the most part poetry is marked up the same way as other text. | + | For the most part, poetry is marked up the same way as other text. |
- | Use '' | + | Use '' |
Poetry is an artistic medium, so we retain direct formatting such as: strong, emphasis, underline, and strikethrough. | Poetry is an artistic medium, so we retain direct formatting such as: strong, emphasis, underline, and strikethrough. | ||
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Languages can be applied as needed. See the [[public: | Languages can be applied as needed. See the [[public: | ||
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=====Complex Formatting and Producer' | =====Complex Formatting and Producer' | ||
- | Sometimes you will come across a poem that has more complex formatting that can not be translated to EPUB. | + | Sometimes you will come across a poem that has more complex formatting that cannot |
- | We can not retain this formatting for EPUB conversion. | + | We cannot |
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====Producer' | ====Producer' | ||
- | In these cases include a [[public: | + | In these cases where we have removed complex formatting |
<WRAP center round box 80%> | <WRAP center round box 80%> | ||
**Producer' | **Producer' | ||
- | This book originally appeared with special paragraph and line spaces that added to the meaning of the text. Due to the conversion process these design elements have been removed. For poems that originally appeared with more complex formatting there are in-text producer’s notes. | + | This book originally appeared with special paragraph and line spaces that added to the meaning of the text. Due to the conversion process these design elements have been removed. |
</ | </ | ||
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- | For more info please go to the [[public: | + | For more info, see the [[public: |
====Common Types of Complex Formatting===== | ====Common Types of Complex Formatting===== | ||
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* and concrete poetry. | * and concrete poetry. | ||
- | In poetry the use of blank space on a page, between lines, words, or even letters, can be used to convey meaning. We can not retain blank spaces. | + | In poetry the use of blank space on a page, between lines, words, or even letters, can be used to convey meaning. We do not retain blank spaces. |
- | Lines, stanzas, or entire poems can use right justification to convey meaning. We can not retain right justification. | + | Lines, stanzas, or entire poems can use right justification to convey meaning. We do not retain right justification. |
- | A Concrete | + | A concrete |
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- | <WRAP center round box 80%> | + | <WRAP center round box 90%> |
**Example** | **Example** | ||
Original Poem: | Original Poem: | ||
{{: | {{: | ||
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+ | **Example** | ||
+ | Transcribed Poem: | ||
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+ | expresses its | ||
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+ | regret | ||
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+ | for the | ||
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+ | ramifications of former wrongs and its commitment to | ||
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+ | build on the positive relationships of the past and | ||
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+ | present to move toward a brighter future where all the | ||
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+ | people of this land live reconciled as brothers and | ||
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+ | sisters and harmoniously steward and protect | ||
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+ | the | ||
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+ | island together | ||
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</ | </ | ||
====Images in Poems==== | ====Images in Poems==== | ||
- | Sometimes you will come across images of text in poems. This is a big no-no in publishing and not accessible. See the section on [[https:// | + | Sometimes you will come across images of text in poems. This is a big no-no in publishing and not accessible. See the section on [[https:// |
We transcribe all images of text and mark up with the appropriate NNELS styles. | We transcribe all images of text and mark up with the appropriate NNELS styles. | ||
- | Sometimes you will find the poet has used an image of a black bar to signify the censorship of a word of phase. In this can you can keep the image and add the Alt-Text "Thick black bar blocking out word/ | + | Sometimes you will find the poet has used an image of a black bar to signify the censorship of a word of phase. In this can you can keep the image and add the alt-text "Thick black bar blocking out word/ |
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+ | ==== Q&A Archive ==== | ||
+ | Q: I have a follow up question about the poetry book, How to Dress a Fish. In your answer below regarding the sections of text that are censored with a black box, you said, "Keep the black boxes and add the alt-text "thick black line that blocks out word" ". I'm just looking for some clarification around this. | ||
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+ | I expected that the black boxes would be images of black boxes since you said to add alt-text for them. I've actually found that all the black boxes I've encountered so far (I'm about 30% through) are regular text in the docx file - so, I can see the word that was originally blacked out in the text and there are no images of black boxes to add alt-text to. | ||
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+ | So, to format it to be like the original, I was deleting the word meant to be blacked out and then inserting the Unicode that you gave me for another poetry book, U+25AC. But I just realized that I can instead highlight the word that needs to be blacked out and use the highlight tool to make it black. Then it looks just like the original. Is it okay to proceed that way? There are also some words that are highlighted grey but still legible and I thought I could apply this technique to these as well. Does highlighting words work when you do the XML markup? If this approach won't work, should I stick with the Unicode symbol of a black bar? | ||
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+ | A: Sorry for the confusion. | ||
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+ | Q: I am currently working on the poetry book " | ||
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+ | A: Recreate it with the same numbers as it is in the original. The poet meant for the lines to break up like that, as this is a common technique in poetry to convey meaning and emotion. | ||
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+ | Q: Also in " | ||
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+ | A: This is not a table, it is three columns. Tables are used for tabular data, in this case it was used to create the layout for the columns. This is not accessible, and is also poor publishing practice. To create columns see [[public: | ||
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+ | Q: I'm wondering about alignment and spacing. The poet in the book I'm editing (Silvija) makes use of left and right justification at some points in the book. Should I align the text as the poet did or stick to right justification only? Also, the book contains a lot of white space (poems are on separate pages). Should I add page breaks in this case? Finally, I just want to verify that the slash ('/' | ||
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+ | A: Poetry is a controversial area of ebook production :) NNELS takes the approach of using left justification for all our documents. For some people, text justification may present readability issues. Extended spaces between words and sometimes letters within words can create spaces of white that can visually dominate the text. If you use screen magnification then magnifying these spaces of white, in particular the space in between words, can increase the need for scrolling beyond what would be required if text was aligned to one side. | ||
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+ | You can delete all empty pages as we don't have to worry about retaining the original page numbers in this work. | ||
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+ | And yes, do use all the original punctuation. TTS is good at reading punctuation. If you're curious how TTS can read text, you can enable the built-in dictation software on your iOS (VoiceOver) or Windows. Keep in mind that TTS software tend to differ [[http:// | ||
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+ | Q: Currently working on Pendent que Perceval Tombait (poem). I saw a previous Q&A mentioned that all blank pages should be removed (we do not need to keep same page numbering), but we can keep the text on separate pages for the poetry book. I know that we also have to remove page breaks. Is this the exception for page breaks? The answer in that Q&A was not clear to me. Otherwise, how would you keep the text on separate pages? There are often no headings, so I can't even use headings as a divider instead. Each page has 4-5 lines, and then skips to the next page. | ||
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+ | A: That was back from when we did DAISY. I removed that line from the wiki. Just format it with headings and no page breaks. We don't keep page numbering in conversion. | ||
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+ | Q: Another question about My Art is Killing Me (poetry). There are parts of the poems that use a different color for the words to convey the author speaking to the reader. | ||
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+ | I know that we do not do this. Is this something that also goes into the production note? Or is there a way to emphasize this? | ||
+ | {{: | ||
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+ | A: Put a not in a Producer' | ||
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+ | Q: Working on My Art is Killing Me (poetry) and there is this formatting in one of the poems: | ||
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+ | {{: | ||
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+ | Do I keep it? I'm leaning on *not*. In that case, how do I format it? Just remove the lines? | ||
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+ | A: Replace the lines with commas. | ||
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