Hi,
There is a tool to create daisy format books that is open-source. It is
perl scripts. There is also a facility to do it through a web site if you
do not want to install the scripts.
If you want I will dig up and send the url along.
There are some daisy 2.20 books on a downloadable iso at the speakup site.
It is called 5daisybooks.iso.
HTH
Willem
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
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
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