-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Not quite related, I tried to open up the directory containing several daisy books I already exported or unpacked from bookshare with listen-up and all I seem to get is a blank screen with the listen-up menu bar on top. Wonder what could be going wrong here. I know bookshare apparently doesn't support daisy in the O'Reily books but I thought I'd give it a try with listen-up to see what happens. I thought listen-up supported text yeah? On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:30:33PM -0400, Trevor Astrope wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Janina Sajka wrote: > > >Don't you mean A P H > > Yep! Thanks for the correction. > > >However, if you want to know more about what DAISY is all about, and by > >inference, what the software is doing, you might want to read some of my > >articles from Access World about this: > > > >http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw050104 > >http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw050103 > > Thanks. I've already read those excellent articles. <grin> I don't recall > seeing a review of the BookPort though. Also, I would have liked more > information on the sound quality of each player. I thought the Victor > Classic sounded much better then the standard 4-track players, but that > could also be due to better quality of the source material. > > Anyway, I guess what I'm asking is if it is possible to use all the > features of the BookPort without windows? And specifically, how difficult > is it to create daisy books in linux if that is all that is required for > the BookPort to read files transfered via the usb port in linux... > > I know I should be asking this question to APH (there, got it right this > time), but I'm afraid I already did. Unfortunately, I got a condescending > answer, and I quote, "Windows format is pretty standard, and most widely > used and all of your screen readers support it." > > Thanks, > > Trevor > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC39F8WSjv55S0LfERA8pAAJ0UITUDKo2kz0inHWGa5tEPhGvEuQCgiC6B KZUyuaUFoPefJV7RYP5mRhI= =L14d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
