Janina Sajka wrote: > No, I'm not aware of a primer on how to markup DAISY. I'm afraid you > need to delve into the specs. *gulp* Hopefully it's less insane than the HTML specs at this point. More from Janina: > Are you comfortable with HTML at least? If so, I would go at itas > follows: [..] Yeah, as I said I write my XHTML in vim, the hard way, because it's not really that hard to do. I still use tables for layout, so I'm technically using XHTML Transitional, but I'll spare you the rant as to precisely how CSS mandates broken behavior. *grin* > Let me ask this--What are you going to use to "play" this file? The best choice right now is probably daisy_player, since it actually will take a text ebook and feed it to Lynx. My long-term plan is to produce a module for my big PDA project called Epic that will put the text ebook into the same format as is used by Tangle. Tangle is a WAP/web browser component for the same project that turns HTML into something not unlike the binary format used by Plucker, a sortof offline web browser and book reader for Palm PDAs. In fact, while Tangle is still very immature, I am using a modified version of Plucker Distiller to produce Tangle output files to use with Scrawl's buffers. Think of the whole thing as emacspeak without the elisp and designed for a PDA where you won't be able to tie your fingers in knots with Escape Meta Alt Control Shift key combinations. *grin* > Or, are you expecting you will also record audio and sync it to the XML > markup? That would be fairly non trivial except in a pretty coarse way, > by hand. I wouldn't even try. I just recently got handed a bunch of plain text extracted carefully from PDFs that needs to be edited by hand to clean up after it having been typeset. There's just enough of it I would like to restore the hyperlinks, particularly the index. I could HTMLify the whole mess in a semi-automatic way since the typesetting is somewhat predictable manner, but it seems like HTML is the wrong tool for the job. As it happens, sooner or later I have to learn something about the format so that Epic can become more than a page in a design notebook. In a lot of ways, Epic should be easier to write than Tangle. That's my current theory, anyway. Thanks for the link to the perl stuff. Between that and daisy_reader, I think may have what I need. *smile* -- "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