Hi Dave,
I just downloaded the latest book I had approved. Here is what I found.
Opening the XML (daisy) copy in OpenBook gives a totally wrong page count
and breaks just seem to be arbitrary. Is this OpenBook being a rear end or
was the daisy file generated incorrectly?
I also opened the HTML copy in Internet Explorer and found that the quotes
appeared to be fine. I then opened the XML copy in Internet explorer and
found many question marks replacing my quotes.
What the hell is OpenBook doing to us now? Is there no end to the bugs and
outright annoyingness of this program?
Jake
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From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 3:45 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: All quote closed quotes
> The continuing saga of page breaks gets worse ...
> Being an Openbook user, the subject of this thread caught my attention, so
> I thought I'd better check out just how my quotes were being rendered.
> Well in the book I'm working on now, it does seem to represent quotes as
an
> ASCII 148, or a closed quote. Similarly, it mucks about with the
> apostrophe. While this isn't a major problem, it's just one more
annoyance
> from Openbook.
> I also thought I'd check a couple of the books I've submitted that are in
> the library, and a separate problem I found there is a major league
> concern. I downloaded 3 daisy versions of my submissions that represent a
> broad period of time, and in every case I found that pagination was
totally
> messed up. Page breaks are being lost, and lines that were, and should
be,
> separate are being run together. The page integrity is shot, with page
> numbers appearing in the middle of pages, and the page count being
> short. As I don't usually validate my own scans, I thought I'd better
> check something I did validate, and it was just as bad.
> After the prolonged discussions we've had over page breaks, it would seem
> to make any of our previous points moot, as it seems the program that is
> used to convert files to daisy disregards existing page breaks anyhow.
> Now, there is a possibility that as I was using Openbook to view the daisy
> files, that it is actually the source of the problem, but if it is at the
> Bookshare end, this is going to be very, very, disappointing.
>
> If anyone else wishes to check out where the page breaks fall, the
> following books were all correct when initially submitted, and are just 3
> that I've checked.
> The Berets by W. E. B. Griffin
> Sharpe's Prey by Bernard Cornwell
> Killer's Wake by Bernard Cornwell
>
> The following is the validation I checked that was correct when
> resubmitted, but no longer seems to be so.
> This Pen For Hire by Laura Levine
>
> What do you all find in regard to your submissions???
>
> Dave
>
>
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