[bksvol-discuss] Re: All quote closed quotes
- From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 00:42:10 -0500
Dave,
I suspect the problem to be much more of a fault of Openbook than Bookshare.
However let's not blame any one thing yet. If you can please give us two
recent titles that you uploaded and/or validated, if would be quite
helpful. If you please give us the titles that you just tried to check out
with openbook, it would be even better. As Robert pointed out in his
message, K1K may not behave in the same strange manner with these books.
Frankly, I trust K1K's rendering of DAISY than Openbook. I also have some
other independent tools that would also varify the integrity of DAISY
material. Let's look at this difficulty scientifically and then try to
determine where the problem lies. Bookshare's tools may or may not be at
fault here. Once the problem is looked at, we can best devise a solution.
Pratik
Pratik Patel
Interim Director
Office of Special Services
Queens College
Director
CUNY Assistive Technology Services
The City University of New York
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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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