Well, any development work undertaken today should be DAISY 3.0 based. I think we'll get 3.01 later this year, and we should have both text and audio/package validation tools as well. I hope the validators are usable--these folks are currently so deeply into Microsoft products their tools may not port well (e.g. requiring MS XML libraries). As for writing new apps, I have only one thing to say: Python. Guy Abandon. writes: > <<Listen-up was mentioned as a possible solution. That is indeed a software > solution that is free and runs on Linux.>> > > This I'll have to pursue. And to think my cousin produced a neat utility > for producing the simpler daisy books which is in fact the mp3 files, the > smil files as offset markers into the mp3s and of course the ncc.html file > to start it all off. This was alas, done in DOS under Q.Basic would you > believe and he's neither a C or even a Pascal programmer; so porting would > get a tad tricky. I forgot basic when I learned Pascal and forgot C through > lack of use after leaving Uni' a considerable while ago. > > Thanks all, > > GA! > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
