Hi, Mayrie! My guess is you are right and maybe those books can be reported and flagged for POET? Sounds like a great use of descriptive process! Valerie Keep up with Nichole's recovery: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/nicholemaples ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Fri, February 10, 2012 9:24:45 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Knitting books > > Hi Sandi, > > What I think happens is that the charts are available in the "daisy with > images" books, but not present in the "daisy" or brf books because they are > graphics of somesort, just not straight text, which Bookshare's conversion > tools don't know how to handle. I'd bet the images that you want are > present in the "daisy with images" files of books, but aren't accessible > because the images aren't straight text. > > Just a guess on my part, as I can't verify that myself. > > Mayrie > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sandi Ryan > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 7:17 PM > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Knitting books > > Hi Debby, > > Often the charts are mentioned in the patterns themselves (use Chart X to > complete pattern rows 9-57, reading the K rows from left to right and the P > rows from right to left), something like that--and then no chart is there. > It may be that Bookshare's software chucks the charts because they look like > garbage characters, but I don't know that. I just know it's frustrating to > read through a pattern, say to myself "Oh, that looks great! Can't wait to > make it," and then find out I can't because the charts are missing. > > Sandi > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 8:58 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Knitting books > > > > Hi Tracy, Jamie and anyone who has had anything to do with knitting books! > > > > Are the charts missing entirely, or are they a graphic, which would do > > those like me with no sight, no good? > > > > Debby > > > > At 08:47 AM 2/10/2012, Tracy Carcione wrote > >>I guess we've identified an area where our books are better than PQ--we > >>take the trouble to put in complicated charts if we can. > >>Tracy > >> > >> > Hi Tracy, > >> > > >> > I've noticed some tables and charts missing in PQ books too. One I > >> > downloaded was supposed to have a family tree. It explained how to > >> > read > >> > the > >> > tree, but the tree itself wasn't there. > >> > > >> > Sue S. > >> > > >> > > >> > -----Original Message----- > >> > From: Tracy Carcione > >> > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 7:36 AM > >> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Knitting books > >> > > >> > Hi Jamie. > >> > Many blessings on your head for taking all that trouble! I know how > >> > hard > >> > it is to translate those charts; I've occasionally tortured my sister > >> > with > >> > it. > >> > Guess I'll have to look for knitting books submitted by you. > >> > The PQ knitting books are full of charts. Or should I say lacking, > >> > since > >> > the charts aren't actually there at all. > >> > Tracy > >> > > >> >> Tracy, the books I have done with knitting charts, I have > >> >> painstakingly > >> >> typed in the graphs with whatever symbol is in the book (x, o, / > >> >> whatever). > >> >> > >> >> They are extremely difficult books to do even when there are only a > >> >> few > >> >> graphs. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Jamie in Michigan > >> >> > >> >> Currently Reading: Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> See everything I've read this year at: > >> >> www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > >> > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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