[bksvol-discuss] Re: Clarifying the stripper and page number issue for Monday Meeting
- From: "Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 21:07:15 -0500
The statement below is super. Nice job, Sarah.
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From: Sarah Van Oosterwijck
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 4:38 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Clarifying the stripper and page number issue
for Monday Meeting
I have too much to say, but I will state the important part, I.E. what
Merissa is asking for, first.
I WANT page numbers retained in both daisy and BRF formats. I am not fond of
the statement "converted from ASCII and repaginated."
I don't actually like headers, so they can be removed, but if they have to
stay to insure no damage is done to the page numbers, by all means let them
stay.
Thank you for addressing this issue. It has been an issue for longer than
you have been in charge of the list. It is, as someone else said, that we
really love bookshare and feel so much a part of it that we criticize its
defects in the hope of making it better. Are we all acting like annoying
parents? LOL You could always suggest that all members wishing to complain
must pay a fee to help cover the cost of the improvements they suggest, due
when the new features are implemented.
I too would like to see a report on the discussion Monday.
Stop reading here if you do not wish to read some calmly stated editorial
comments.
I do tend to remember page numbers I recently read past. That means that I
can come close to my lost position if page numbers exist. This might be a
feature or a defect of my brain, I haven't decided yet. :-) I do like that
information for knowing what percentage of the book I have finished. Chapter
numbers tend to provide the same service when still present.
My braille note is supposed to keep my place, but does sometimes lose it. I
can not mark my place if I read with the book reader because it makes the file
read only. Kurzweil remembers if the file was saved and the file was
converted, thereby losing daisy page numbers, but it also crashes at times and
the recover feature doesn't always get your last position right.
More conversion issues:
A student frequently must convert a book from daisy in order to deal with it
in an efficient and useful manner. At that point page number tags would be
lost.
When the book is converted to RTF and then when it is converted again to
daisy the page breaks and therefore the numbering can get messed up. The only
solution is page numbers in the body text of the book instead of only in the
page number tags.
I'm not opposed to tags, if they worked perfectly I would love it. I wish
chapters had them too, but we don't live in a perfect world and I'm almost used
to that. :-)
Kurzweil user page numbers can help if everything from the original book
remains perfect, but it doesn't as stated above. It's a multi-part problem I
don't think bookshare can solve, so the easier solution is no stripper, or a
stripper the user can choose to use or not to use.
I also don't think it is reasonable to require page numbers, but I do not
want numbers that scanned well to be removed.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
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