Thanks for looking--the freedomscientific books are all MP3 audio though, so they won't help me with what I am trying to do. It's interesting enough, but these are pretty clearly generated--that or the DAISY format is so obnoxiously verbose that nobody in their right mind writes the XML by hand. *smile* On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:04:12AM -0500, Christopher Covington wrote: > I poked around the daisy consortium site and it's pretty unfriendly > and totally useless. I don't understand why an organization would not > want to allow the general public to access tools for the format they > are trying to promote. [After having surfed around more extensively, I > chalk it up to a website that doesn't direct normal linux hobbyists > such as myself to the right place.] > > Anyhow, I learned html and my first programming language by copying > examples and editing them. Maybe you could figure out the DAISY format > by reverse engineering some books in that format (using perhaps the > specification as a reference). I found some example DAISY books at > http://www.freedomscientific.com/Training/JAWS_training_hq.asp#DAISY. > > Upon further looking into things, I happened upon > http://dsidtb.sourceforge.net/index.php which links to some tools > including a validator. That stuff probably can help but it's a bummer > I wasn't able to find a tutorial or whatever about writing in this > format. The specification seemed to have some examples though that > maybe you could work off of. > > Cheers, > Chris Covington > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list