[bksvol-discuss] Re: Apparent lack of BRL page numbers
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 01:02:10 -0700 (PDT)
Nicely done, Pratik and Kellie.
Cindy R
--- Pratik Patel <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm sure all of you remember the lovely debate and
> the apparent discovery
> that print page numbers were being omited from
> braille copies of Bookshare
> books. I promised to investigate. Thanks to all of
> you who sent me pages
> from books that you either submitted or recently
> validated. And, even
> bigger thanks to Kellie Hartman, who is conducting
> her own independent
> investigation so that we can verify my findings.
>
> and, the drum role please!
>
> The results say, no panic necessary. All books that
> contained properly
> formatted page numbers when validated do have
> necessary print page numbers
> associated with them when converted to braille.
> Bookshare's tools are not
> misbehaving as previously assumed. I had the
> opportunity to check ten
> books-some provided by you, some randomly picked
> from the recently approved
> books list. I'm happy to report that none of these
> books had a problem.
>
> As Kellie and I suspected, the culprid appears to be
> Kurzweil 1000, which
> sucks these page numbers. So those of you who are
> using Kurzweil 1000 to
> back translate Bookshare braille books, must keep in
> mind that Kurzweil 1000
> does not properly back translate the series of dot
> 3, 6 characters followed
> by # sign and the page number. In fact, it seems to
> gobble up that portion
> of the page. Those of you using note takers to read
> the braille files
> should find no problems.
>
> I hope this clears up a lot of the confusion from
> last week. I'm happy to
> answer any questions you might have on this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pratik
>
>
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