David, How would you separate pages with anchor text? After all, Daisy must have some means of indicating page breaks and page numbers, and I think it's XML. Thanks. John On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, David Poehlman wrote: > I beg your pardon, page break info can be maintained in html. There are > several ways to do it two of them being to put each page on a page and > to separate each page with anchor text. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org> > To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:08 PM > Subject: Re: Book Share and Linux > > > Hello, > Alison's response sounds good to me. Since I run a transcription > operation that produces math and science books in Braille, I am keenly > aware of the importance of preserving page breaks. > I hope AFS from maplefish will be adequate for editing rtf. I've been so > busy following this thread that I haven't tried it yet. > John > On Fri, 14 Jun > 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > I have forwarded some of the mail on this thread to Book Share. I > > am now forwarding the response I received to this list, because I > > think it both instructive and responsive to the needs of Linux > > users: > > > > NOTE: I've edited out some personal points in the message I > > received. > > >From Alison@benetech.org Fri Jun 14 12:36:51 2002 > > From: Alison Lingane <Alison@benetech.org> > > Thanks so much for passing along the posts to us - we're glad to know > what > > people's concerns are. > > > > HTML was definitely considered when we chose one format, but the > drawback it > > has is that it loses page break information if it is in the original > file. > > This is important to maintain in books, especially for students who > have > > assignments based on page numbers. > > > > To explain to you in a little more detail, the book conversion process > goes > > like this: > > > > 1. Volunteer submits a file in any format > > 2. Another volunteer (or staff) converts the file to RTF. We chose > RTF > > because it keeps as much markup information as possible, but isn't a > > proprietary format, and most programs have a "save as RTF". Knowing > the > > answer to John's post of what files can be used with Linux to > accomplish > > this would be helpful. Volunteers can also re-submit as ASCII, but > this > > loses any markup present in the book. (If the book was submitted in > ASCII, > > we try to have it resubmitted in ASCII so false markup isn't added.) > > 3. Our software converts RTF to the XML content file of the DAISY > standard. > > 4. Our automated software tools run on this XML file - quality > assessment, > > OCR correct, etc. > > 5. Our tools then convert this XML file to DAISY, BRF (actually, we > use > > Duxbury for this), and in the case of public domain books, HTML and > ASCII. > > > > Hopefully this explains things a little more, but I'm happy to answer > other > > questions! > > > > Alison > > > > > > > > > > -- > Computers to Help People, Inc. > http://www.chpi.org > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703