Hmmm, I didn't know Daisy_Player. Got a url for that? Meanwhile, here's one more url for you: http://amis.sf.net The Amis Project aims to produce LGPL authoring and client software that's cross platform. They're a multi-year grant of the Nipon Foundation. They were supposed to have a Linux port by now, and I don't know why it isn't yet out. They've been trying to write very ANSI compliant C. T. Joseph CARTER writes: > 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 -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list