I think though what janina is saying and with which I agree, why fiddle when you can dance. pwd might be a good way to go but what can I use to take advantage of it now? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arent_Kits_van_Heijningen[106016.3614]" <kitsvh@bio.vu.nl> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> Cc: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 12:07 PM Subject: Re: Re: Bookshare.org and Linux Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net> wrote: (2002/06/14 03:37:00) >Perhaps, but it lacks one very salient ingrediant. It doesn't >have community consensus as W3C html does. And, as has been >noted, the only accessible authoring tools which produce RTF are >on Windows. So, I'm disappointed by Book Share on this point. > >Perhaps it generates better looking text. But, I don't believe >RTF supports structure quite markup anywhere as well as html >does. Since Book Share supports DAISY, at least in theory, it >would seem that structural markup should win out over good looks. > Not entirely true , rtf is also handled by non-MS systems , also it should be possible to provide direct parsing in text to speech systems and in drivers for electromechanical character-cell displays Another candidate is .pwd wich is ANSI-based and used on the PocketPC platform Comments welcome k _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list