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Author: Sean Crist (Nuance Communications)
Email: kurisuto1 at yahoo dot com
Date: 2007-08-01 13:08:11
Subject: Re: small caps
> What is the desired level or reproductive faithfulness? I've marked a word
> displayed in small caps as UNCERTAIN since I can only express the same word(s)
> in pure caps in plain text. I am unsure my concern would be understood, as the
> text itself is legible and obvious. Am I being too exacting?
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> --charlie
Thanks for the attention to detail. :-)
There's no need to use UNCERTAIN in this case. The reason is that even tho there's no way to represent small caps in plain text, the small caps can be automatically recovered; you just write a little program look for words which consist only of capital letters (other than single-letter words and known abbreviations).
I'm pretty sure that none of the texts in the project draw any distinction in meaning between small-caps and all-large-caps. Think of the "fi" ligature: we don't lose any information if the printed text contains the "fi" ligature but we electronically encode this as "f" followed by "i". The "fi" ligature, like the small caps, can be automatically recovered as needed.
--Sean
| Messages in this thread | Name | College/University | Date |
| small caps |
Charles J. Daniels, aka chajadan |
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2007-08-01 12:25:16 |
| Re: small caps |
Sean Crist |
Nuance Communications |
2007-08-01 13:08:11 |