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Create a separate HTML file for each page, then create an index page with
links to all the pages.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: Book Share and Linux


> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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