[bksvol-discuss] Re: following block quote question, please clarify something for me?

  • From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:30:39 -0700

Hi Jake,
This is a perfect answer! I'm not anywhere near a geek, and I understood it! I love complete answers! Are you getting sick of hearing that? Thank you. 

Peace,
Mayrie

At 11:22 AM 4/12/2008, you wrote:

Hi Paula,
This is a tricky question and somewhat of a techie concept, because it's different from how most people think of word processor documents. I'll try my best with an example.
DAISY is a markup language, and as such it marks blocks of text as certain kinds of text. The most common of these is a paragraph. So, I'll repeat this paragraph, this time with the markup as how it might appear in DAISY.
<p id="sampleParagraph">DAISY is a markup language, and as such it marks blocks of text as certain kinds of text. The most common of these is a paragraph. So, I'll repeat this paragraph, this time with the markup as how it might appear in DAISY.</p>
Each paragraph is then rendered by the DAISY reader in the manner it chooses. It might choose to put a blank line, it might choose to indent the paragraph, it may even do both. Internet Explorer with JAWS for example, simulates a blank line between paragraphs.
So, as far as DAISY goes, blank lines are pretty irrelevant; all that matters is what the converter thinks of as a paragraph.
I hope this answers your question, isn't too much detail, and isn't too geeky, smile. 

Jake
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paula and James Muysenberg" <outofsightlife@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: following block quote question, please clarify something for me? 



Hi, Mayrie,

   My understanding is that while the Bookshare tools will strip out more
than one blank line, it does leave single blank lines. I just found some
single blank lines in one of the books I downloaded from Bookshare, but it's
a book I downloaded a couple of years ago. Has something changed, or am I
correct that single blank lines are not stripped?

Paula

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 7:38 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: following block quote question, please clarify
something for me?



Hi Devorah,

         You are remembering correctly that the lovely stripper will
take out blank lines.  People seem not to be able to remember that,
no matter how many times it is said.  Which, by the way, frustrates
me, because people are giving advice that won't work, thinking they're

helping.


Peace,
Mayrie

At 05:26 AM 4/12/2008, you wrote:
>I like the idea of using HTML tag if it will work with DAISY.
>What about Braille? What kind of tag is used for block quotes in
>Braille?
>Also, am I confused (not unusual) -- I thought that the Bookshare wizard
>removes blank lines when the validated book comes back for approval?
>Isn't that why we don't leave blank lines between paragraphs, using only
>a hard return???
>Or am I confused?
>I have to write all this stuff down somewhere.
>
>Thank you everybody who responds to all my question,
>
>Devorah
>
>
>
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>
>Hi all,
>
>You could use the HTML tag.  When you start a block quote, put
><blockquote>  on a single line and when you're done, put  </blockquote>
>That may even help the DAISY creator because the main part of the text
>is xml, which is a varient of HTML.  Maybe just a blank line will do,
>and that's simple and effective.
>
>Ann P.
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