[bksvol-discuss] Re: Clarifying the stripper and page number issue for Monday Meeting

From: talmage@xxxxxxxxxx
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:54:10 -0500

Hi Marissa,

I vote to always ditch headers, they're annoying. Page numbers you can keep, I'm ambivalent about them, but has others may need them, Bookshare might as well keep them. If they are left in the text, the reader can be pretty sure they are correct, but I wouldn't want to rely on the daisy tags being right on any file created from an automated tool unless the source file was perfect.

Regarding the stripper being included in the unpack utility, while it is a nice idea and I vote for it if it is possible, I don't think I'd get my hopes up as for it being practical. For it to work from the unpack utility, it would have to know how to deal with daisy, html, txt, and brf files. In addition to the different file types, I suspect that the stripper at Bookshare has access to the raw file before it is converted to daisy, and not being familiar with what goes into a daisy book, I would venture a guess that at least 1 of the files associated with daisy relies on maintaining relative indexing from the beginning of the book. If this is the case, you wouldn't be able to strip headers from the unpack utility because it would throw the daisy index files out of whack.

Dave

At 04:19 PM 3/31/2005, you wrote:

Hi folks,
Let me clarify this for Monday.
You want to have page numbers in the electronic text of the books you download as well as in the DAISY tags, yes?
What about running headers and footers?
Do you want them always stripped out?
OR
Do you want the option to strip them out via the unpack tool?
No editorializing or funny business, just tell me if I have your requests right.

Marissa

[bksvol-discuss] Re: Clarifying the stripper and page number issue for Monday Meeting

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