I am quite disappointed by the DAISY files at BookShare. To me they don't exactly look like what I think of as DAISY. For example, page navigation is one of the least important navigational structures in DAISY, but it seems to be the most important one in the BookShare files. I am also not sure that Raman's claims for DAISY support in Emacspeak are particularly defendable. Notice that he created his code before there was any content to test with. So, Raman's DAISY support is Raman's idea of what DAISY is based on whatever he based it on. That part I don't know. Ann Parsons writes: > From: Ann Parsons <akp at eznet.net> > > Hi Steve, > > The booksshare books are either in DAISY or in BRF files. I haven't > tried the DAISY stuff, but Raman's made noises about a DAISY reader > for Emacspeak. I think you can read the xml files from the DAISY > books. I haven't tried that. I just download the BRF files and back > translate 'em with NFBtrans. > > Ann P. > > -- > Ann K. Parsons > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
