yes, and page beraking info
was specifically why the print specific sections of CSS were
introduced.
>>>>> "David" == David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net> writes:
David> yes, I find no fault with dazie and infact that
David> would be much better than rtf. You use a table
David> of contents at the top and link it so that each
David> page is paired with one of the items i call them
David> name and number tags. You can even draw some
David> sort of breakin lines if you like. I'm sure it
David> would not be too difficult to have duxbury
David> recognize this.
David> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John
David> J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org> To:
David> <blinux-list@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, June 14,
David> 2002 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Book Share and Linux
David> David, How would you separate pages with anchor
David> text? After all, Daisy must have some means of
David> indicating page breaks and page numbers, and I
David> think it's XML. Thanks. John On Fri, 14 Jun
David> 2002, David Poehlman wrote:
>> I beg your pardon, page break info can be maintained
>> in html. There
David> 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
David> 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
David> 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
David> 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
David> answer
>> other > questions!
>> >
>> > Alison
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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