[bksvol-discuss] Re: To Bob, Re: Kurzweil and Daisy
- From: "Nancy Martin" <nancyam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:29:46 -0500
Hi Monica,
You bet "holler" is a good word. I use it all the time!!
Nancy
Oklahoma born and staying here
----- Original Message -----
From: Monica Willyard
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:58 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] To Bob, Re: Kurzweil and Daisy
Hi Bob. Thanks for reporting on your tests with the chapter headings and such
on the books you've proofread. It was really helpful information. Just for the
sake of information, the version of Kurzweil you are using doesn't fully
support the daisy standard. It does a lot of guessing, and that's why some
files don't function well. I don't want to come off as putting your software
down. Kurzweil 9 is great software. It just doesn't fully implement navigation
for daisy content, and I thought you might want to know about it. Some of the
books you've worked on recently work better in Kurzweil 11, and your careful
work is paying off. Kurzweil 11 does a better job with daisy files, but it's
not perfect either. It does seem to do a better job of handling chapters,
pages, and sections. It still doesn't sync with page numbers in Bookshare
daisy files though. Kurzweil seems to have added more support with each version
of the software, and I hope the release of version 12 will fully support the
new daisy 2005 standard and the Bookshare daisy files based on it.
If you run into trouble with a daisy book in Kurzweil, you may get more
comfortable navigation from using the HTML file. When either the submitter or
proofreader has normalized page numbers and/or protected chapters, moving
around in the HTML file within Kurzweil can be very fast. You can either rename
your xml file with the HTML extension, or you can copy your xml files to a
folder and then rename them so you leave your original daisy files intact for
use with other daisy reading devices. Either way, just make sure that 2 files
called html.css and revstd.css are in the same folder as your HTML files. The
html.css file is in every zip file you get from Bookshare, so it's easy to
find. The other file, called revstd.css is for use with the older Bookshare
titles that you got back when we all used the Bookshare Unpack program. If you
don't find it on your computer, holler and I'll send it to you. Hmm. Is holler
an acceptable tech support term? Maybe I should put a "holler" button on my web
site. Lol! Anyhow, CSS files are like interpreters. They tell programs how to
display HTML or XML files so everything both looks good and navigates smoothly.
You can open your HTML files without the CSS files, but they don't work as well
that way. The new files from Bookshare will show each chapter in a book as a
heading in the HTML files. That makes getting around much easier.
I hope this helps and makes sense. I'm waiting groggily for my coffee to be
ready.
Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
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