Vertical bracket
I was at work today looking over a PDF when I noticed that the version of Acrobat I was using had a "Read Aloud" option. I hadn't seen it before but it turns out it will vocalize any and all of the text in your PDF, using a very poor quality computerized voice.
It reads acronyms as words, phone numbers as very large integers, and the pipe character ("|") as "vertical bracket", among other idiosyncrasies.
As I listened to about fifteen pages of documentation being read in this way, I was struck by the poetic quality of one particular passage:
It reads acronyms as words, phone numbers as very large integers, and the pipe character ("|") as "vertical bracket", among other idiosyncrasies.
As I listened to about fifteen pages of documentation being read in this way, I was struck by the poetic quality of one particular passage:
Dedicated vertical bracketProgressive vertical bracketForthcoming vertical bracketReceptive vertical bracketRealistic
I listened to it three or four times, and it never sounded less than genuine and meaningful. I realize it was just a screen reader, but the words made a strange sort of sense. I suppose there's not much point in analyzing it except only to say that, in a way, wouldn't we all like to be vertical brackets?
Labels: acrobat, pipe, poetry, screen reader, vertical bracket
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